Key Responsibilities

Project Management and Client Relations

• Manage multifamily and mixed-use projects through all phases, from initial planning and schematic design through design development, construction documentation, permitting, and construction administration.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for clients, consultants, contractors, and internal project teams.

• Establish and maintain project schedules, deliverables, meeting agendas, coordination milestones, and work plans.

• Manage project scope, track progress against contractual commitments, identify potential changes, and communicate risks and schedule impacts promptly.

• Lead project meetings, document decisions and action items, and ensure timely follow-through.

• Coordinate with ODE principals on project strategy, major design decisions, client communications, staffing, and resource allocation.

• Build strong client relationships through clear communication, responsiveness, accountability, and consistent delivery.

Financial Management and Business Operations

• Monitor project budgets, fees, staffing, and financial performance in coordination with firm leadership.

• Track project labor and progress against established budgets, identify potential overruns, and take corrective action when needed.

• Help manage project scope and additional services, including identifying changes in client requirements and supporting fee proposals and contract amendments.

• Coordinate consultant agreements, scopes, deliverables, invoices, and billing.

• Assist with preparation of architectural service proposals, project pursuits, and requests for proposals (RFPs).

• Contribute to staffing plans, workload forecasting, and efficient allocation of project resources.

Design Coordination and Technical Oversight

• Guide project teams in translating design concepts into coordinated, technically sound, and buildable solutions.

• Oversee architectural documentation and consultant coordination to maintain design intent and meet project requirements.

• Coordinate structural, MEP, civil, landscape, lighting, interiors, and specialty consultants as appropriate.

• Review drawings, specifications, and consultant deliverables for completeness, constructability, coordination, and quality.

• Apply a working knowledge of building codes, zoning regulations, accessibility, life safety, permitting, and construction systems.

• Support effective Revit and BIM workflows, document management, and quality-control procedures.

• Work closely with Project Architects and technical staff to resolve design and documentation issues.

Construction Administration and Project Delivery

• Lead or coordinate construction administration, including RFIs, submittals, ASIs, construction meetings, field reports, site observations, and punch lists.

• Maintain clear records of project decisions, design changes, outstanding issues, and construction-phase communications.

• Coordinate with contractors, consultants, and clients to resolve field conditions and maintain progress.

• Identify potential construction, cost, schedule, and quality issues early and elevate significant matters to firm leadership.

• Ensure project deliverables are complete, coordinated, and issued in accordance with contractual requirements and established schedules.

Team Leadership and Development

• Direct day-to-day project activities and provide clear assignments, priorities, and expectations to project team members.

• Coordinate staffing and delegate work effectively while maintaining accountability for quality, schedule, and deliverables.

• Mentor junior staff in project organization, client communication, consultant coordination, and project delivery.

• Foster a collaborative, respectful, and solutions-oriented team environment.

• Contribute to the development of firm standards, project management procedures, and quality-control practices.

• Help build the project management capabilities and professional culture of a growing architecture and urban design practice.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture or a related discipline.

• Approximately 7 or more years of professional experience, including demonstrated responsibility for managing architectural projects.

• Experience with multifamily residential, mixed-use, urban infill, or similar complex building projects.

• Understanding of architectural project delivery across design, construction documentation, permitting, and construction administration.

• Demonstrated ability to manage project schedules, deliverables, consultant coordination, staffing, and client communications.

• Familiarity with project budgets, fee management, scope control, additional services, and consultant agreements.

• Working knowledge of building codes, zoning, construction documentation, and construction administration.

• Strong written, verbal, organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines while exercising sound professional judgment.

• Proficiency with Revit, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, and standard architectural project coordination tools.

• Ability to work collaboratively with firm leadership while taking ownership of day-to-day project decisions.

Preferred

• Professional architectural licensure or progress toward licensure.

• Experience managing multifamily projects involving wood-frame, Type III or Type V construction, podium buildings, or residential-over-retail development.

• Experience coordinating projects with complex sites, structured parking, urban infill conditions, or multiple consultants.

• Familiarity with Autodesk Construction Cloud, BIM 360, SketchUp, Enscape, and Adobe Creative Suite.

• Experience preparing proposals, contributing to business development, and supporting client relationship growth.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor staff and lead multidisciplinary project teams.

• Interest in long-term leadership opportunities within a growing architecture and urban design practice.

• Appreciation for the relationship between architectural design quality, urbanism, constructability, and financial performance.

Why Work at ODE?

• We offer the opportunity to work directly with experienced design principals on significant multifamily and mixed-use projects.

• Meaningful responsibility for client relationships, project delivery, and financial performance.

• We provide a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with opportunities to influence project outcomes and the firm's growth.

• Exposure to a diverse portfolio of projects across multiple markets.

• Opportunities for professional development and increasing leadership responsibility.

ODE values work-life balance and remote work policies that allow flexibility for our employees in managing their working days and hours to cater to their diverse needs.

The salary range for this position is $110,000 - $135,000 annually. The actual offered salary for this position will vary depending on multiple factors including the candidate’s qualifications, education, position knowledge, work experience, skills, ability, work location, and internal incumbent compensation for similar roles. The salary range listed above does not include other compensation elements such as discretionary bonus opportunities, paid time off, medical insurance, and other wage and benefit opportunities.

ODE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Let’s discuss your future

We always like hearing from people interested in being part of our team and would love to connect if there is a potential to work together.