The Role
The Design Manager oversees the design process from concept through construction, ensuring compliance with standards and coordination among various disciplines.
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About the Company
At Flow, we’re reimagining what it means to live, work, and connect. More than just a real estate company, Flow is a brand, a technology platform, and an operations ecosystem spanning condominiums, hotels, multifamily residences, and office spaces. We’re building a new kind of living experience: one that’s flexible, connected, and designed to create genuine community and real value for the people who call Flow home.
Our mission is oneness: prioritizing our residents and their experiences, and fostering connection with ourselves, their neighbors, and the natural world. By putting people at the center of everything we do, we’re creating vibrant, human-centered communities where life, work, creativity, and play all come together in one place.
About the Role
The Project Architect leads, coordinates, and controls the entire design process—from Feasibility and Concept through to construction completion—ensuring that all consultants deliver solutions aligned with the brand standards, commercial strategy, technical requirements, sustainability goals, and regulatory obligations. The role ensures design quality, cross-discipline coordination, scope clarity, and the timely delivery of drawings, specifications, and documentation.
We believe employees are better together. Every position at Flow has an onsite or in-office requirement. This role is based full time at Flow's Miami HQ in the Bay Harbor Islands, FL.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design process from Feasibility → Concept → Schematic → Detailed Design → Construction Completion
- Translate brand standards, product strategy, and business requirements into clear and actionable design
- briefs.
- Select, appoint, and manage Design consultants, Peer reviewers, and Specialist advisors.
- Ensure full coordination across Architectural, Structural, MEP, Interior, Landscape, Façade, Traffic, and any other required disciplines.
- Drive design schedules, deliverable matrices, and design freeze milestones.
- Ensure all designs comply with global brand standards, regulatory requirements, constructibility criteria, and sustainability targets.
- Control design changes, prevent scope creep, and evaluate consultant claims.
- Maintain continuous alignment with Commercial, Development, Project Management, Procurement, and Operations teams.
- Lead value engineering efforts without compromising brand intent or customer experience.
- Provide design support during tendering, construction, and handover stages as required.
Ideal Background
- Bachelor’s in Architecture or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience in design coordination or design management, with proven experience delivering large-scale residential, commercial, hospitality or mixed-use projects.
- Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, and project management software.
- Knowledge of BIM standards (e.g., ISO 19650, PAS 1192) and LOD specifications.
- Strong knowledge of building systems: architectural, structural, MEP, façade, sustainability, fire/life safety.
- Excellent understanding of design codes, international standards, and coordination methodologies.
- Familiarity with global sustainability frameworks (LEED, BREEAM, WELL).
- Strong commercial awareness (contracts, variations, design scope, fees, deliverables).
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
- Experience working across multiple regions or regulatory environments preferred.
- Professional registration (RIBA, AIA, ARB, Chartered Architect, or equivalent) preferred
Benefits
• Comprehensive benefits package (Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life)
• Paid time off and 13 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Access to HSA-compatible plans
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), free therapy through SpringHealth, acupuncture, and other wellness offerings
Flow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity and/or expression, pregnancy, Veteran status any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, we provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Top Skills
Autocad
Project Management Software
Revit
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The Company
What We Do
Flow solves the complexity of fund infrastructure. We connect information across investors, providers, investments and systems to realize our mission of empowering thought. Powered by dynamic tools and human centric interfaces, our cross platform SaaS technology networks and adapts to the myriad of ways funds operate to optimize productivity and increase time invested into making decisions. By bringing Flow to the $10 Trillion alternative asset market, we are able to increase the speed of decisions, the speed of capital and the speed of growth that serve as the lifeblood for all market based economies.
