Full-Time | Oakland, CA (On-Site, 5 Days/Week) | $160,000–$200,000
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About the Company
This is a vertically integrated real estate development, design, and construction platform focused exclusively on 100% affordable multifamily housing in California. The company operates as one integrated team across development, design, and construction, rather than as separate entities fighting over scope and budget.
The delivery model is built around standardized, componentized building systems: repeatable unit types, prefabricated and mass timber components, centralized BIM production, and automation tools designed to compress timelines. The goal is to start construction on thousands of affordable units across California in the coming years.
This is a company where architecture is expected to perform, not just inspire. If you have spent your career navigating adversarial developer-architect-GC dynamics, this environment will feel structurally different.
The Role
The Director of Architecture leads the architectural function at the center of this integrated platform. This is a player-coach position: you will carry technical project responsibility while simultaneously managing, recruiting, and developing a growing in-house architectural team.
This is not a conceptual studio leadership role. The work is technical, execution-oriented, and deeply cross-functional. You will own documentation quality, building performance standards, and alignment between design intent, structural systems, MEP coordination, and prefabricated components. You will also sit in the room where development and construction decisions are made.
The right person for this role wants proximity to the full system, not just the design phase of it.
