Director of Product, Home Design Platform

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup transforming how new homes are designed and built. The team includes founders with backgrounds in Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. Higharc has raised a total of $83M with support from top venture capital firms and strategic investors in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution. We are seeking a Director of Product, Home Design Platform to lead a critical part of our Product organization.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a product leader, setting direction for one of Higharc’s most strategic product areas while managing and developing product managers across a broad platform surface area.
• 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, enabling integration into 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.
• 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.

About You

• 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
• Major plus if you also bring:
• 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

Working at Higharc

We are 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 as short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.