Residential Drafter

Higharc
United States
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Candidates with production homebuilder experience and CAD/BIM proficiency will find this mid-level remote role ideal for translating workflows into a digital platform.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level drafters with production homebuilder expertise and platform implementation experience
    — “1+ years of experience in residential drafting or architectural design, ideally with a production homebuilder
  • Self-directed professionals who can manage complex projects and establish domain credibility quickly
    — “You're a self-directed project owner who closes the loop
  • Individuals ready to transition into team leadership as implementation scales
    — “Shows potential to manage a team of internal or external resources

Things to consider

  • Geographic eligibility limited to North/South America with US time zone alignment required
    — “Must be based in North or South America and able to work across US-based time zones
  • Role involves technical pre-sales engagement alongside implementation duties
    — “Represent Higharc in technical pre-sales conversations

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience converting physical construction plans to digital platform settings
    — “translating production homebuilder workflows and plan sets into the Higharc platform
  • Demonstrate structured feedback methodology for product development contributions
    — “providing structured feedback that informs product direction
  • Emphasize project completion metrics and cross-team collaboration examples
    — “managing task progress and gaps through to delivery
  • Showcase ability to surface technical issues with contextual precision
    — “logging bugs and surfacing issues with precision and context
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Junior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • successful project completion
  • customer satisfaction
  • technical expertise
Typical background
residential draftingarchitectural designconstruction management

Skills & requirements

Required

Residential DraftingCad/bim SoftwareProject ManagementTechnical DocumentationCustomer Support

Preferred

BIM SoftwareConstruction Management

Stack & domain

Cad/bimConstruction DocumentsU.S. Building PracticesBuilding CodesProject ManagementTechnical SupportCustomer CommunicationQuality AssuranceResidential DraftingArchitectural DesignProduction HomebuildingConstruction

About the role

Original posting from Higharc via Ashby

ABOUT US

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised over $175M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

Higharc is seeking a Residential Drafter | Implementation Specialist to join our Implementation team. In this role, you'll be the technical backbone of our builder onboarding process — translating production homebuilder workflows and plan sets into the Higharc platform and serving as a trusted expert for both customers and internal teams.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Lead implementation of builder homes into the Higharc Editor, managing task progress and gaps through to delivery
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for builder product leads, translating existing plans and documentation into Higharc-compatible settings
  • Represent Higharc in technical pre-sales conversations and provide ongoing technical support to platform users
  • Deliver QA/QC on the Editor product, logging bugs and surfacing issues with precision and context
  • Contribute subject matter expertise as a target user, providing structured feedback that informs product direction
  • Assist architecture and engineering teams in defining requirements based on field experience and builder workflows

ABOUT YOU

You bring deep expertise in production homebuilding documentation and the credibility to establish trust quickly with builder teams. You're a self-directed project owner who closes the loop — and you're ready to grow into leading a team as implementation scales.

You have:

  • 1+ years of experience in residential drafting or architectural design, ideally with a production homebuilder
  • Proficient in CAD/BIM software, with hands-on experience producing construction documents
  • Comprehension and experience with U.S. building practices, means & methods, and building codes
  • Demonstrated experience managing projects through to completion
  • Subject matter expert capable of quickly establishing credibility in the domain
  • Shows potential to manage a team of internal or external resources to execute implementation of homes into Higharc.
  • Must be based in North or South America and able to work across US-based time zones

WORKING AT HIGHARC

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.

Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with flexible 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. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.

Please note: we are seeing an uptick of fraudulent recruiting activity claiming to be associated with Higharc. All communication and outreach from our in-house team will come from an @higharc.com email address.

Source: Higharc careers (Ashby)

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