VP of Buildings; Market Engagement

Overview

Living Future is a non-profit organization whose mission is to catalyze the transformation toward communities that are culturally rich, socially just and ecologically restorative. Our flagship program is the Living Building Challenge, the world’s most ambitious and holistic performance standard for resilient, healthy, and green buildings. Living Future offers other certifications, transparency labels, education, and events that enable organizations and individuals to communicate their commitment to a healthier world.

We believe that the building industry can shift dramatically far faster and more radically than many assume. We also believe that the industry can and should address ecological impact, social impact, health impact and cultural impact as intersecting issues. Living Buildings are beacons for change, data points for skeptics, inspirational stories for young people, and test beds for innovation. We seek to affect change in the building industry by envisioning a living future and showing it’s possible to embody that future in practice and policy.

STATUS: Full-time, exempt
REPORTS TO: Vice President, Buildings
LOCATION: Remote within the United States

Job Description

The Vice President of Engagement, Buildings, serves a key role on the Buildings Group of Living Future. This is an outreached focused role, with the responsibility of growing our program engagement and building up our sales pipeline. The Buildings Group manages all aspects of Living Future’s building scale programs including the creation and maintenance of visionary standards, tools, and resources to push the building industry toward a Living Future.

Informed by research, industry feedback, collaborative partnerships, and forward-thinking dialogue, the Buildings Group defines the philosophy, performance goals and metrics, and advocacy frameworks for reaching the highest bar of holistic performance in climate, health, and equity for buildings, products, and organizations within the building industry.

The VP is specifically responsible for business strategy development and implementation, relationship building, representing Living Future at industry events and convenings, and development of tools and resources that excite and empower building owners to use Living Future programs. Success in this role is measured by the number of new registered projects and the expansion of the building programs audience.

Strategic Relationship Building

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support long-term adoption of Living Future programs and services.
• Develop and lead custom curated workshops and project charrettes to build capacity within committed organizations and help guide committed projects to success early in the development process.
• Manage group convenings to gather insight and support groups of committed organizations to share knowledge and support the scaled adoption of Living Future programs.
• Support the integration of Living Future program information into organization standards and tools, allowing owners and consultants to easily identify how certifications integrate with the owner’s goals and project delivery process.

Business Strategy

• Develop and implement strategies to expand participation in the Living Building Challenge (LBC), including increasing project registrations and certification conversions.
• Identify and pursue strategic opportunities to engage new network partners, including architecture firms, developers, manufacturers, and institutional clients.
• Conduct market analysis to understand trends in sustainable and regenerative design, identifying regions, sectors, or project types with high potential for LBC adoption.
• Collaborate with marketing and program teams to align outreach, messaging, and engagement strategies with organizational growth goals.
• Develop and track performance metrics related to registration sales, partner engagement, and market reach to inform business planning and decision-making.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support long-term adoption of Living Future programs and services.
• Contribute insights to annual and multi-year…