Design Manager

Responsibilities

• Support design leadership in maintaining best-in-class performance and advancing Blue Heron’s growth and brand through integrated operations, team alignment, and proactive problem solving.
• Incorporate Blue Heron design standards for conceptual design integration and support best practices development and documentation.
• Oversee that design direction aligns with Blue Heron design ethos.
• Ensure project team adherence to design tools, processes, and standards to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Guarantee accuracy of collateral from Design to support the Sales & Marketing Teams.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Visualization for Luminary homes.
• Create and manage Discovery assets as required by Discovery and Sales teams, including, but not limited to, presentations, lot fits, and KMZ view studies.
• Positively and actively collaborate with leadership and cross-departmentally with teams to ensure adherence to internal processes and quality standards.
• Provide insight on project and Blue Heron design ethos as needed by the Sales and Marketing teams.
• Manage designer staff and workload distribution.
• Train, coach, and mentor designer staff.
• Interview, hire, mentor, and train qualified design team roles.
• Create, monitor, maintain, update, and train processes and procedures for all design related tasks.
• Encourage routine and consistent use of design software including Sketch Up, Revit and Bluebeam.
• Collaborate within design teams to ensure processes and procedures are implemented with project teams.
• Provide architectural design direction and oversight for Luminary homes.
• ‘Moderator’ of the BH Design Committee, actively calibrating the committee members to the priorities of the day.
• Perform as a designer as needed or required on high profile projects.
• Present Sketch Up models and visualization assets to potential clients for Luminary homes.

• Exceptional cross‑functional collaborative attitude and drive to deliver effective results.
• Proven experience leading design efforts and adherence to design standards.
• The ability to be decisive in establishing priorities and setting expectations.
• Experience working cross-functionally with interdisciplinary teams including Construction, Operations, Purchasing, Sales, Marketing, and Accounting.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills with the ability to pivot, motivate, develop, and hold teams accountable.
• Experience working in a high-energy and fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional professionalism, effective communicator, and problem solver.
• Minimum 6+ years residential and/or hospitality architectural experience in an architecture or hands‑on homebuilding/construction organization with 3+ years of architectural management experience.
• Professional Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree from an accredited Architecture program.
• Architectural Registration preferred, or on track for Architectural licensure.
• Routine use of software including Sketchup, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office Suite (Familiarity with Revit, Adobe Suite, Lumion, Enscape Preferred).