Commercial Architecture Director

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Job Summary

The Commercial Architecture Director is a licensed architect responsible for shaping strategic vision, standards, and innovation for commercial project design across the organization. This role ensures that all commercial initiatives align with design excellence, cost efficiency, technical specifications, and constructability best practices.

Overseeing a high performing architectural team, the Director collaborates closely with project leaders and external partners to deliver consistent, scalable support for commercial projects across multiple markets. This position drives architectural quality, fosters continuous improvement, and champions forward thinking solutions that strengthen the organization’s commercial portfolio.

This position requires onsite attendance 5 days per week at our Division Office located in Westborough, Massachusetts.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Partner with divisions to provide strategic leadership for all commercial projects, ensuring alignment with design intent, cost targets, and constructability goals.

• Lead, develop, and scale a team of architects, support staff, and outsource partners to support the commercial product needs of multiple divisions.

• Partner with land teams and developers to coordinate product designs with site planning and resolve conflicts in order to meet the requirements of the project.

• Work with division operations to develop presentation materials needed for Planning Board presentations and represent architecture in planning meetings as needed.

• Lead and coordinate design initiatives, in conjunction with design team, for new plans, elevations and improvements to existing product.

• Represent commercial architecture when coordinating with division and 3rd party consultants on projects having specialty requirements (density studies, noise analysis, impervious surface limits, energy qualifications, etc)

• Evaluate plan/unit performance across divisions and identify opportunities for optimization, value engineering, and customer experience improvement.

• Direct resolution of architectural, structural, or cross-functional plan issues involving multiple markets.

• Set the vision for standardization, innovation, and platform consistency across multiple markets.

• Other duties as assigned.

Management Responsibilities

• Ensures appropriate staffing to meet department needs

• Utilizes recruiting and selection tools/processes to build organizational talent

• Delegates work according to employee’s abilities and skills

• Evaluates employee’s performance and plans for compensation actions in accordance with that performance

• Provides developmental opportunities through identification of internal and external training opportunities

• Creates opportunities for employee growth

• Provides continuous coaching with regard to functional and leadership standards (technical skills and behaviors)

Scope

• Decision Impact: Area

• Department Responsibility: Single

• Budgetary Responsibility: