New Avenue | Architect | Project Manager | Designer Position
The Role: Everything possible in the design, permitting, and development of new housing in California.
Your Qualifications:
You are a world-class professional, hustler, problem solver, and all-around wonderful person.
Your Activities: Everything it takes to get a house, from an initial phone call to follow-up visits a year after the final inspection.
Required Skills:
- Design (including significant time in Revit)
- Permitting (pushing back on arbitrary bureaucratic policies. "No, we will not be paying $50,000 for a water meter because state law prohibits that.")
- Project Management, holding people accountable, tracking schedules.
- GSuite - You will use Google Slides and Google Sheets.
- Great communication & writing. Always professional. We over-communicate, 10X the norm in this industry.
- Ability to advise team members (design AND construction) in the field. Comfortable calling construction workers on mistakes and making them redo work. Ability to provide positive support to the building team.
- Team mentality - you are a team member and a team leader. Your team includes accountants, interior designers, drafters, and contractors. You work with them positively and they love working with you.
- Experience leading residential projects, including submitting Use Permits, AUPs, and building permit submittals, presenting to government boards, etc...
- You must have a list of building permits you have obtained independently.
Supplemental Skills (nice-to-have):
- Fun
- Ability to navigate the unknown blind
- Current project list and workload of 5+ projects plus the ability to source 10-20 new projects per year through your own networks.
- Ability to get up after being blindsided by the chaos of politics, neighbors, and vendors. Smile and keep on hustling.
Compensation Benefits:
- Full-time. You will be paid above market rate and work hard, some nights and some weekends.
- ESOP/Ownership - An ownership culture, you will be respected as the leader of your work and a future leader in your field
- 11 federal holidays and 3-4 weeks of vacation
- Work from home or the office as desired.
- Healthcare costs are added to your base salary or spent on health-related activities pre-tax (bikes, sports teams, mental health, counseling, coaching), this is your choice.
- Annual team-building events and trips.
- Benefit Conditions - Waiting period may apply - Only full-time employees eligible
About New Avenue:
New Avenue is a diversified, sustainable development company with a leading in-house developed technology, a full-service design-build division, and expansive involvement in local and state policy groups that impact housing. We manage residential projects from the initial call through a comprehensive design and construction process. The entire process is centered on the homeowner, and our goal is to create a home that will be a source of health, happiness, and value throughout your lifetime and for generations to follow. We do this with a focus on quality, transparency, sustainability and improving the built environment through design excellence.
Our Core Values: We believe housing is healthcare. We value time and want to you to be surrounded by people you love, and people who love you. We value our community, employees and the environment, and our business exists to protect and nourish them. We value community and consider building community as the most important activity a business can pursue. We value the idea of home, as the place that protects your time, your health and your connection to the people and places that matter most to you.
Remote Work:
- New Avenue has been a work-from-from home culture since long before the days of Covid. Local site visits and city-permitting research are often required in person. However, this is flexible, and some fully remote positions are available.
Compensation:
You will be on the high side of this range if you meet every criteria in this posting. If you meet only a few of the criteria you will start at the low side of this range and we have a 2-5 year plan to get you to the high side.
How To Apply:
We prefer an email to [email protected] along with two short points:
1. A link to your linked in profile
2. An example of a project you personally completed. This can be photos, CDs, or similar.
We welcome a link to a personal project, any writing or content you've created, your website, blog, social media, portfolio, or other examples of who you are and what you do.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $80,000.00 - $250,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
Compensation Package:
Schedule:
Application Question(s):
- Have you been responsible for (or partially responsible for) applying for and receiving a building permit for an ADU, or any project requiring a Use Permit, Conditional Use Permit, Administrative Use Permit or other residential project in California?
Education:
Experience:
- Revit: 1 year (Required)
- ADU Design: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
