Home Design Lead

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have rasied a total of $83M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

We’re seeking a systematic, product-minded Home Design Lead to help conceptualize and develop families of scalable home designs — homes that can flex across regions, lots, codes, and price points. This is not a traditional architecture role, it’s an opportunity to help shape the future of home design at scale.

What You'll Do

You’ll help design homes as adaptable, repeatable products, not one-off architectural projects. These will serve as the foundation for a fully automated builder experience. Importantly, this role is part of a broader team of BIM and home design experts. The Home Design Lead will be responsible for conceptual design and for maintaining a standard of care for design quality. Expect to:

• Design adaptable home families and template designs: Create plan templates that work across a wide variety of regions, markets, and lot conditions — from narrow infill lots to wider suburban parcels.

• Systematize flexibility: Create robust options and configurations that enable builders to choose from pre-vetted choices for elevations, layouts, and structural details without reinventing the wheel.

• Ensure regional code and site adaptability: Incorporate common code settings, foundation systems, and site strategies for national applicability.

• Balance design quality and efficiency: Embed value-engineering principles into the design system — delivering homes that are beautiful, buildable, and affordable. Create flexibility through value-engineering options to meet a range of builder cost targets

• Contribute to a new kind of plan library: Help define the structure of our option catalog, finish packages, and documentation for small builder workflows.

• Participate in design reviews and maintain responsibility for technical accuracy, drawing clarity, and coordination across disciplines

• Contribute to the development of standard details, design guidelines, and modeling best practices that support automation and scalability

About You

This role requires a detail-oriented, technically capable designer who can think and work at multiple scales — from site strategy and code compliance to plan configuration logic and value-engineering.

You have:

• 5+ years of experience in residential architecture or homebuilding, with demonstrated delivery of full CD sets in multiple states

• Deep familiarity with single family homes, residential detailing, and single-family code requirements

• Experience thinking systematically to balance code, operations, and design tradeoffs at scale

• Comfort with parametric design thinking or configuration logic is a plus

• Familiarity with building systems, cost-effective detailing, and standard construction methods

• Understanding of customer-centric design in a sales or homebuyer context

• Exposure to code-driven or computational design tools

• Experience working with national or regional production homebuilders
  

Working at Higharc

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.

Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.