About Common
Common is the nation’s leading residential brand offering convenience and community through coliving and traditional apartments. Our signature tech-enabled property management allows us to deliver unparalleled experiences across 40+ buildings, 6 cities, and over 1,500 members. Common is the preferred choice for both residents looking for a stress-free and all-inclusive living environment, and for real estate owners seeking reliable, above-market returns. Launched in October 2015, we now operate homes in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. and receive over 15,000 new member applications per month.

It’s an exciting time to be part of Common’s team. We challenge ourselves every day not just to think about ways to make city living better, but to activate those ideas in meaningful ways. Our team is comprised of real estate professionals, designers, engineers, salespeople, marketers, client service representatives, and so much more. We work collaboratively, value self-startership, and embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality to ensure our work is done and done well. Common sits squarely at the intersection between technology and real estate, working every day to build quality residential solutions that bring positive change to the world’s rental housing crisis. 

Common was founded by Brad Hargreaves and has raised $65MM in venture funding. Brad is a visionary leader with vast experience in the technology and service space, previously founding the education company General Assembly.

To follow the latest Common news, get to know our community of residents, and learn about what it’s like to work at Common, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. To see more open roles and hear from Common employees check out our Careers Page. 

About the Role

Common is seeking a Technical Director to join our Design and Construction Team to develop housing for shared living. We are looking for a proactive individual who can provide the technical coordination and development of interior architectural projects. This leader will oversee the technical design and design development documentation for all projects. This is an opportunity for a talented Technical Director to help our design team to execute superior document quality and delivery for our housing across multiple cities at a large scale. This role will report to the Studio Director, Architecture.

Responsibilities 

• Responsible for the technical coordination and development of interior architectural projects
• Since Common is not the AOR for our homes, you will collaborate with our partners’ architects to ensure quality of the brand through advisory and review. This includes coordination with local architects, drawing review, developing and reviewing specifications and coordination with the design and construction team 
• Responsible for overseeing the development and coordination of high quality documentation and providing oversight and training for the project team
• Will assist in the development of a QA/QC program and be responsible for the implementation and leading the quality program.
• Knowledge of resources to ensure that deliverables are coordinated, integrated and in sync with the project schedule
• Conducts technical research and analysis required for best practices in project delivery
• Proactively checks and coordinates project documents
• Supports project document control tasks and maintains quality control of such tasks in accordance with Quality Management System and records management protocols
• Develops, coordinates and reviews the technical specifications for each project 
• You will be asked to lead project initiatives and work inter departmentally with peers
• This role will involve mentoring and coaching peers on technical knowledge
• There will be opportunities to travel to project sites as necessary
• Directly trains and mentors team members
• Actively engages in internal and external professional development opportunities
• Participates in Technical Design Committees 

Qualifications 

• Master’s Degree or 5 year Bachelors of Architecture degree required
• 6+ Years of experience in an architecture/design firm required
• Experience in residential design and production is preferred 
• Portfolio must demonstrate technical experience in housing or residential design
• Professional experience with US city approval (code or zoning) required
• Experience providing oversight and qualified to help develop and implement an QA/QC program
• Familiarity with Revit and AutoCad and demonstrates a practical understanding of Navisworks, Photoshop, Bluebeam and Illustrator preferred
• Candidate must be detail-oriented and comfortable supporting ideas with both qualitative and analytical reasoning
• Candidate must be very organized and be able to multitask across a large number of projects with various deadlines
• Candidate must be a continuous learner who enjoys researching, testing and implementing best practices
• Candidate must be a direct and proactive communicator who can be independent but ask questions when needed 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required

What We Offer

Common truly values our employees and wants to do everything to ensure that our employees are not only happy and professionally fulfilled, but also that they have the opportunity to be healthy. Because of this, we are committed to providing a number of affordable and valuable health and wellness benefits for our employees such as paid vacation and sick time, medical, dental and vision insurance, Company paid life insurance, Company paid STD/LTD Insurance, FSA + HSA options, commuter transit benefits, generous paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks!) and a 401K. Additional benefits such as Company equity, paid holidays, weekly team lunches + weekly happy hours, a fully stocked kitchen, flexible working hours, job training + development opportunities + a great wellness program are also available. And as always, we are regularly evaluating our offerings to ensure employees needs are being met.

We are committed to affirmatively providing equal opportunity to all associates and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, legally protected physical or mental disability, military or veteran status or any other basis protected under applicable federal or state law.