Hybrid Principal Director – Building Code

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About the role

  • Principal Director at Archistar overseeing U.S. building code interpretation and compliance. Leading national efforts for modernizing building regulations through technology and governance.

Responsibilities

  • **Your Day-to-Day****
  • Serve as Archistar’s principal technical and regulatory authority on U.S. building codes, including structural, life safety, accessibility, energy, and fire-related provisions
  • Set and govern the national framework for building code interpretation, assurance, and regulatory defensibility within digital plan review systems
  • Own the principles, standards, and guardrails that govern how building codes are translated into structured, rules-based environments
  • Act as the final authority and escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or high-risk code compliance matters
  • Review and assure interpretations involving alternative methods, equivalencies, performance pathways, and discretionary determinations
  • Ensure that life safety intent, professional judgment, and real-world enforcement practice are preserved within automated and assisted review workflows
  • Provide senior technical leadership and assurance for complex or high-risk municipal and state implementations
  • Guide jurisdiction-specific approaches to state adoptions, local amendments, and administrative discretion, ensuring differences are accurately and defensibly represented
  • Establish scalable approaches for managing code variation across jurisdictions while balancing consistency with local autonomy
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to review, validate, and sign off on digital building code logic
  • Participate in statutory assurance processes, audits, and go-live readiness decisions
  • Represent Archistar in senior government, regulatory, and enterprise engagements, including RFPs, pilots, and statutory reliance discussions
  • Engage directly with building officials, plans examiners, fire marshals, regulators, and executive public-sector stakeholders
  • Develop internal building code standards, assurance frameworks, playbooks, and technical guidance
  • Mentor senior technical staff and strengthen building code capability across the organization

Requirements

  • **What We're Looking For****
  • 10+ years’ experience in building code enforcement, plan review, inspections, or regulatory compliance
  • Deep, practical expertise in U.S. building codes (e.g. IBC, IRC, IECC, IFC, ADA) and permitting workflows
  • Strong professional credibility with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) at local or state level
  • Demonstrated sound judgment in interpreting complex, discretionary, or performance-based provisions
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level and public-sector engagement
  • Experience providing governance or assurance over digital plan review, permitting, or code compliance systems
  • Strong understanding of how building code requirements are represented in structured or digital rule environments
  • Deep understanding of how U.S. building codes vary by state adoption cycle, local amendment, and enforcement practice
  • Experience contributing to, assuring, or overseeing automated or digitally assisted compliance workflows
  • Involvement in major code adoption cycles, permitting modernization, or digital transformation initiatives
  • **Nice to Have****
  • Exposure to rules engines, machine-readable code implementations, or automated plan review systems
  • Experience partnering with technical teams building or maintaining compliance platforms

Benefits

  • **Why You'll Love Working With Us****
  • Apply your building code expertise at a national, cross-jurisdictional scale
  • Work with governments that value legal defensibility, due process, and professional judgment
  • Be part of an award-winning planning technology company partnering with leading municipalities and agencies
  • Competitive executive-level salary package, including equity participation
  • Remote-first flexibility across North America, with purposeful travel
  • A collaborative executive team that values rigor, autonomy, and public-sector credibility
  • Mission-driven work supporting housing delivery, permitting modernization, and better planning outcomes

Job title

Principal Director – Building Code

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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