Lead Residential Architectural Designer - Tulsa, OK

Lead Residential Architectural Designer

Hoffman Homes’ mission is to create quality, Luxury Downsized homes through a personal customization process, ensuring a 5-star building and living experience. We are a family-owned company where ensuring a healthy culture is a HUGE priority. Our team loves each other, and we all love what we do. 

As the Lead Residential Architectural Designer, you are the bridge between inspired design and exceptional execution. You lead the design production process, transform creative concepts into precise, construction-ready plans, and collaborate across the design and construction teams to create distinctive homes that reflect the quality, craftsmanship, and innovation of the Hoffman Homes brand. Through your technical expertise, creative vision, and leadership, you help ensure every home—and every client experience—is delivered with excellence.

What Winning Looks like

• You create homes that people are proud to call their own by designing beautiful, thoughtfully crafted exterior elevations that capture each client's vision, enhance curb appeal, and reflect the timeless quality, character, and craftsmanship that define the Hoffman Homes experience. You partner with Home Design Specialists and Interior Designers to create award-winning Parade Homes, explore innovative architectural ideas, and continually elevate the design excellence of every Hoffman Home.
• You lead and oversee the residential design production process by assigning work, establishing priorities, managing deadlines, and ensuring every client project progresses efficiently from design to completed construction documents.
• You transform creative ideas into precise, buildable construction documents by producing high-quality floor plans, elevations, electrical plans, and technical drawings. You use your expertise to identify challenges early, recommend smart solutions, and help ensure every home is built as beautifully as it was envisioned.

Skills Needed to Win:

• Produce creative, architecturally cohesive elevations that enhance curb appeal, reflect client selections and maintain that “no two homes look alike”.
• Collaboratively ensure design quality control by being a voice that gives feedback to designers and construction team as necessary.
• Research and integrate current architectural design trends for active adult homes and communities.
• Keep every design project moving smoothly through the production pipeline.
• Track client progress, balance workloads, monitor deadlines, and ensure quality deliverables are returned to the Home Design Specialists on schedule.
• Lead and support drafters and designers by assigning projects, communicating expectations, reviewing work, and provide technical guidance.
• Improve the efficiency, consistency, and scalability of the design production process.
• Translate client-approved design revisions into complete, accurate, and buildable CAD construction documents while preserving the Home Design Specialist's design intent.
• Partner with entire Team from Sales through Construction to ensure design intent, technical accuracy, and construction readiness are maintained throughout each project.
• Identify design or constructability issues before they impact the client or field team.
• Recommend practical solutions as they arise throughout the build.

*Please note, all final candidates will undergo a background check as part of the hiring process.