Senior Director executing media relations and communications efforts for public affairs. Leading narratives and managing key accounts in a hybrid environment.
About the role
- Senior planning authority at Archistar overseeing zoning regulations and land use across the U.S. Collaborating with stakeholders and leading digital planning initiatives for enhanced governance.
Responsibilities
- Serve as Archistar’s senior technical authority on zoning ordinances, land use regulations, and development standards across the United States
- Own and govern the interpretation of planning and zoning controls, providing statutory and legal assurance over their translation into digital and rules-based systems
- Act as the final escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or high-risk zoning and land use matters
- Review, validate, and approve complex zoning rules, overlays, conditional uses, variances, and discretionary provisions
- Ensure regulatory intent, administrative discretion, real-world planning practice, and the administrative record are preserved within automated and assisted review workflows
- Provide technical leadership and assurance for complex or high-risk municipal, county, and state implementations
- Guide jurisdiction-specific approaches to exceptions, overlays, discretionary review, and statutory nuance
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to review, validate, and sign off on digital zoning logic from a statutory and planning perspective
- Participate in audits, statutory and legal assurance reviews, and go-live readiness decisions
- Engage directly with planning directors, zoning administrators, regulators, and senior public-sector stakeholders on complex planning and zoning matters
- Provide expert technical input in a statutory and legal assurance capacity for government and enterprise engagements, including RFPs, pilots, and statutory reliance discussions
- Support confidence in digital planning systems among regulators, reviewers, and decision-makers
- Develop internal zoning and planning standards, playbooks, and technical guidance
- Mentor and upskill internal teams to strengthen land use and zoning expertise across the organization
- Contribute to the governance framework of Archistar’s Center for Technical Excellence
Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience in statutory planning, zoning, land use regulation, or development review
- Deep, practical knowledge of zoning ordinances, land use controls, and entitlement and permitting workflows
- Strong professional credibility with municipal, county, or state government stakeholders
- Demonstrated judgment in interpreting discretionary, conditional, and complex zoning provisions
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level and public-sector engagement
- Experience working with digital planning, zoning, or e-permitting systems in a statutory, governance, or assurance capacity
- Strong understanding of how zoning regulations, overlays, and discretionary controls are represented in structured or digital rule environments
- Familiarity with GIS-based zoning data, parcel data, and spatial rules
- Experience contributing to or assuring automated review, decision-support, or digitally assisted assessment workflows
- Exposure to large-scale zoning reform, housing delivery initiatives, or government digital transformation programs
- Nice to Have
- Exposure to rules engines, machine-readable zoning, or automated assessment systems
- Experience partnering closely with technical teams building or maintaining digital planning platforms
- AICP certification or equivalent senior professional credential
- Experience serving as a Zoning Administrator, Planning Director, or Entitlements / Development Review Manager
Benefits
- Apply your zoning and land use expertise at a national, cross-jurisdictional scale across the U.S.
- 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
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