Lead, Architecture

About us

WeWork is a global platform for creators, providing hundreds of thousands of members around the world with space, community and services that enable them to do what they love and create their life’s work. 

WeWork India, is run by the Indian real estate conglomerate, Embassy Group and commenced operations in 2017. Currently, it has over 62,000 members and 43 locations and six cities in India - Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad, and Pune. Its portfolio comprises small and medium enterprises, start-ups, large businesses, freelancers, etc. Our mission is empowering tomorrow’s world of work. 

Flexibility is paramount in today’s workforce and the WeWork India team is laser-focused on fuelling growth opportunities and fortifying its position as the leading flexible workspace brand with customisable and innovative solutions for all businesses. In October, WeWork India made its first investment in Bengaluru-based conferencing and collaboration platform, Zoapi. Founded in 2019, Zoapi is a unified conferencing and collaboration solution provider for enterprise companies, coworking spaces, and education centres.

WeWork India’s latest brand campaign ‘Great Inspires Great’, showcases the breadth of products at WeWork India which makes it the ideal end-to-end workspace solutions provider in a hybrid and flexible world. WeWork’s products include digital offerings like On-demand, All Access, Managed Office by WeWork, and its space as a service portfolio consisting of private offices, custom build offices, and conference rooms, among others.

WeWork India is the country’s leading flexible workspace provider that offers a personalised experience to different types of professionals with varied needs through its innovative and customised offerings. WeWork India is home to a community of diverse set of people – from innovators to visionaries to dreamers and go-getters, making it a space where people meet and inspire each other to achieve greater heights of success. You can learn more about our team and organisation here. Read more about our culture code to understand how we do things.

About The Role

This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking for responsibility, design freedom, and the hunger to create amazing spaces and revolutionize the definition of workspace. The role includes designing both standard, custom and managed WeWork locations. We are searching for a Lead Architect who will be front-ending all phases of the design documentation and coordination from programming to design through the bid process and construction administration. In this role, you will be collaborating with engineering, construction, design, logistics, operations and development teams as well as other inter-departmental groups. Externally, you will interface with contracted consultants (MEP, Structural, local Architect of Record, and GC’s)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, document, and execute multiple simultaneous high-quality projects, by collaborating with all internal and external teams
• Lead the formation of the conceptual framework for the project
• Incorporate into projects WeWork standards, goals, and brand ideals
• Design, coordinate, and document custom spaces and elements when needed
• Communicate regularly to management and the project team with project updates, for example, of the status of each project, potential issues on site, etc
• Be able to prioritize tasks as per business needs.
• Flag any issues that may arise during the entire project, from deal release to opening, take ownership of them, and resolve them with their out-of-the-box thinking.
• Be responsible for determining and organizing functional requirements, providing programming and space planning, and code analysis
• Produce all design and hand-off packages for a project utilizing Revit, including programming, layout, AoR hand-off and operations
• Maintain High documentation standards, both internally and externally by QCing external consultants' deliverables and submissions.
• Support the Real Estate team in the due diligence process as needed
• Mentoring the team and ensuring that the desired levels of quality and accuracy are maintained uniformly across team deliverables.

Education and Desired Qualifications

• B.Arch from a reputed institute
• 5 - 7 years of professional design experience in high-quality commercial or hospitality projects. Mixed-use residential, cultural, and institutional experiences also will be
• considered.
• A commitment to delivering outstanding high-quality design
• Ambitious, out-of-the-box thinker
• Interest in rule-based design refined over multiple iterations
• Reliable, focused, and detail-oriented
• Some demonstrable experience in design documentation in a BIM(Revit) Workflow ●
• Ability to invoke applicable building, accessibility codes, and zoning in the design scheme
• Skill in applying building materials and construction details
• Excellent oral, written, and graphic communication skills
• Excellent decision-making skills
• Self-directed with a high level of initiative and a ‘can do’ attitude, but open to feedback
• Highly resourceful problem solver and quick learner
• Strong time management skills
• Excellent organizational and ‘people’ skills
• Proficient in the following programs: Revit, AutoCAD, all things Google, and Exposure to BIM 360.
• Some exposure to Rendering and presentation platforms like Lumion, Enscape, and Vray
• Sketchup will be an added advantage

Equal Opportunity Employer

WeWork India is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees and members. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to embody our values and all aspects of employment including the decisions to hire and promote, are based on merit, competence, performance and business needs.

Our total rewards philosophy is aimed at providing compensation that is competitive, performance linked and helps us attract and retain the talent we need to drive our business forward and serve our members. As part of WeWork India, our commitment to you is that  you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration, flexibility and inclusion.

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Last updated on Sep 26, 2024