[Remote] Director of Product, Home Design Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. They are seeking a Director of Product for their Home Design Platform to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for the core platform experience that powers the journey from drafting through construction documents.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage a strong team of product managers
- Support team growth while maintaining a high bar for product thinking, execution, and customer impact
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Higharc’s core platform experience, including the end to end flow from drafting through construction documents
- Turn Studio product into a platform by exposing the core building model and drafting workflows through APIs, so customers and partners can integrate Higharc directly into their design, estimating, and operational systems
- Help define how AI is woven across the product portfolio, both as embedded intelligence within core workflows and as shared platform capabilities that can be leveraged across teams and products
- Partner with R&D team to continue building best in class AI capabilities based on proprietary homebuilding data
- Own product metrics and business outcomes, with clear accountability for performance, adoption, quality, and impact over time
- Partner closely with Engineering and Design leadership to turn complex technical and workflow challenges into scalable, intuitive product experiences
- Shape how platform capabilities are exposed and extended through integrations, internal tooling, and shared services across the company
- Create clarity in ambiguous spaces by connecting customer needs, technical architecture, and company strategy into a clear product direction
- Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies, including advancements in AI, design automation, 3D workflows, interoperability, and construction technology
Skills
- 8+ years of product management experience, including experience leading complex product areas or product teams
- 4+ years of people management experience, including coaching and developing product managers
- A strong track record of shipping platform, workflow, or systems driven products with meaningful customer and business impact
- Pair strong product thinking with strong design judgment, ensuring experiences are not only effective and scalable, but also intuitive, cohesive, and high quality
- Experience leading cross functional teams across Product, Engineering, Design, and other partners in fast moving environments
- A systems thinking mindset with the ability to connect technical architecture, customer workflows, and business goals
- Operate with strong attention to detail, balancing big picture thinking with rigor in execution, product quality, and user experience
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to align stakeholders and drive decisions at both the strategic and tactical level
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and turning broad problem spaces into focused roadmaps and execution plans
- Experience in architecture, construction technology, design tools, or homebuilding software
- Familiarity with 3D workflows, CAD or BIM style systems, configurators, or construction document generation
- Experience with APIs, integrations, platform strategy, or AI enabled product experiences
- Track record of scaling services with high data loads
Benefits
- Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.
- We provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time.
- You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K.
- We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.
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