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Senior Designer

Hybrid
  • London, England, United Kingdom
Design

Job description

We are Resi, the UK's number one home extension company, and we’re on a mission to make home improvement joyful. We are currently hiring for a Senior Designer to join our architecture studio in Kennington on a full-time permanent basis.


Are you fed up with feeling like you don’t have the right support to take your career to the next level? Or you don’t get to see enough projects, and spend more time doing admin than advising clients? Do you agree that technology can be utilised to help you and your clients to achieve the best results for their home? Do you want to be at the forefront of new construction methods, like SIPs, or ensuring your customer’s homes are the healthiest they can possibly be by specifying Retrofit measures?


Then this could be the role for you.



At Resi, you will have the opportunity to work differently. Resi is the UK’s go-to home improvement architecture firm - we help everyday homeowners design, finance and build their dream home without the stress and, most importantly, without breaking the bank. The innovations that we are bringing to market have never been seen in this industry before. We are at the forefront of changing a highly inefficient, costly, and frustrating customer experience through delivering high quality projects quickly, affordably and in a climate-considerate way.


Key Responsibilities of our Senior Designers:

  • Taking responsibility for and overseeing proposed design, managing the whole process up to planning permission

  • Working closely with clients to understand and create designs that interpret their needs, motivations and budget for their project, whilst increasing the chances of gaining planning approval first time round

  • Keeping in close communication and building rapport with clients, advising them at every step of the journey from the beginning through to on-site. This will include all technical aspects around drainage, the party wall act, planning legislation, building regulations, potential on-site queries, tendering process, contracts and programmes

  • Ensuring clients are aware of and comfortable with all aspects of what Resi has to offer

  • Manage expectations and risks for the client, so there are no surprises!

  • Working to deadlines and consistently hitting targets in order to suit the goals of the business, keeping focused on speed, legality and adding value

  • Living the Resi values, and holding others accountable to them

  • Training and guiding junior members of the team in what excellent design looks like, what planning approach should be taken, etc

  • Collaborating closely with internal teams to ensure a successful project brief - this involves bringing questions, solutions and actively seeking the root causes on issues to push improvements for the customer, the role, the process and the company

  • Handling objections in a patient, confident and professional manner

Job requirements

About You:

We know that every designer brings something different to the table, but to have the best chance of success in this role, we think you need to have:

  • Excellent technical knowledge in private residential architectural design (creative) - especially in home extensions and renovations

  • A clear grasp and in-depth knowledge of the design process from start to completed on-site

  • Project running ability, able to manage and oversee multiple projects simultaneously

  • Client-oriented, able to build rapport and think client first

  • Able to confidently lead design meetings

  • Revit proficiency - minimum one year of in practice experience, using on live projects

  • The ability to thrive in a high performing and high pressure environment

  • A positive attitude and mindset

  • Demonstrable experience of high performance

  • A high level of maturity

  • A real willingness to learn, adapt and provide solutions

  • People management experience - specifically of junior designers


You might be even more of a technical fit if you have:

  • Planning, project budgeting and Building Regulations experience

  • Experience in delivering MMC and/or retrofit on your projects


What We Can Offer You:

Resi are a team of ~80 people based in Oval, London. We have a hybrid work set up where we operate three days in the office (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) and two days from home (Wednesday and Friday). Our office is accessible and we will make adjustments to accommodate successful candidates.


At Resi, you will have the opportunity to work differently, take control of, and really accelerate your career. Our success is all down to our wonderful people and their talent, and that’s why we treat our employees with the same respect and care as our customers. We pride ourselves in not just aiming to be the best in the industry, but also the best place to work - our collaborative, transparent and diverse culture, with a heavy focus on personal development, means that we don’t just grow homes, we grow people too. We have an ideas-led innovation culture and we really care about creating a diverse and inclusive team - so we welcome people from all backgrounds with different perspectives, ideas and experiences to work with us. Because, at Resi, everyone has a voice, and we each know our part in shifting the needle.


We offer our employees...

  • Hybrid working

  • Flexi-hours

  • On the job mentoring, coaching and learning + development

  • Equipment and softwares that will enable you to do your best work

  • The opportunity to learn from a range of industry experts you typically wouldn’t work with in a regular architecture practice

  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) within your first year, increasing to 34 with an additional day of Birthday Leave after a year of employment

  • Enhanced parental leave

  • Regular company-wide socials organised by the Resi social committee, and paid for by Resi

  • Health cash plan via Medicash

  • Mental health support plan via Health Assured

  • Free mortgage advice for you, friends and family

  • Office perks including snacks, fruit and refreshments

  • The opportunity to work in a team of super friendly, talented and passionate people! You can check out our team here - https://resi.co.uk/about

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