Architectural Designer

Job Description

Resi is the UK’s number one home extension company transforming how homeowners design, plan and build. With over 10,000 projects nationwide and a 95% planning approval rate, we make architecture accessible and transparent through a digital platform that brings design, planning and build support together.

We are hiring for an architectural designer (assistant level) with experience using Revit on live projects to join our team 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 actual design work? Do you want to be at the forefront of new industry technology and 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.

Key Responsibilities Of Our Architectural Designers

• Working alongside a Senior Designer to understand client briefs and create designs that interpret their needs, motivations and budget for their project
• Designing to gain planning approval first time round
• Working collaboratively alongside a wider team of designers, surveyors, planners and building regulations specialists, leveraging support when required
• Compiling complete planning packages, forms and all associated documents in order to fulfil the needs of the local authority
• Exercising a basic understanding of the technical aspects around drainage, the Party Wall Act, planning legislation, building regulations, on-site potential queries, tendering process, contracts and programmes
• Explorative work utilising AI in architecture
• Working to deadlines and consistently hitting targets
• Living the Resi values, and holding others accountable to them (Drive It, Do More with Less and Deliver with Love)

About You

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

• Ideally, experience working on private residential architectural design (not essential!)
• Proficient use of Revit, with experience using the software in practice
• Able to work on numerous projects simultaneously
• Client-oriented
• A genuine interest in working in a non-typical architectural practice environment

What We Can Offer You

Resi are a team of ~70 people, currently based in Oval, but shortly relocating to a shiny new office in a Fora in Elephant & Castle! 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).

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 & flexi working
• 25 days of Annual Leave per year, plus Bank Holidays (33 days in total!)
• Birthday Leave after a year of employment
• Private health & dental insurance via Bupa
• Access to mental health support, therapy and coaching via Plumm and EAP
• On the job mentoring, coaching and learning & development
• Equipment and softwares that enable you to do your best work
• Gym membership
• Enhanced parental leave
• Regular company-wide socials organised by the Resi social committee, and paid for by Resi
• Office and wider Workspace perks including snacks, fresh fruit and refreshments
• The chance to make a real impact on an ever-changing industry
• The opportunity to work in a team of super friendly, talented and passionate people - some of which you wouldn’t work with in a typical architecture practice! You can check out our team here -