Vice President, Product Design

Mattamy Homes; Golden Horseshoe; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading homebuilder in Canada is seeking a Vice President of Product Design to lead innovative community projects. This role involves strategic leadership, team management, and collaboration with various stakeholders to enhance product offerings. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in design and project management, contributing to the growth of a rapidly expanding division.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits plan

Continuous learning opportunities

Dynamic and growth-oriented culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience managing complex projects.
• Minimum of 5 years as a people leader.
• Experience in architectural firms or development.

Responsibilities

• Lead product design in community visioning processes.
• Manage high performing teams and provide coaching.
• Support sustainability initiatives in product design.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Mindset

Creativity

Customer Focus

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design / Architecture, Business, Engineering, or Construction Management

MBA or similar

Job description

Etobicoke, Ontario – Hybrid (3 days / week in office)

Company : Mattamy Homes Canada

Division :

Employment Type : Full-Time

Role : Vice President, Product Design

Reports to : Division President

When it comes to forward-thinking homebuilding and thoughtfully planned communities, Canadians think of Mattamy Homes. And that success is centred on a foundation of great people, because our team is as solid as they come. At Mattamy, we are optimistic, hardworking and supportive. Together we learn and grow as we strive to create a positive impact in the homebuilding industry. Contributing to the Mattamy Way means being surrounded by caring people who encourage you to be exactly who you are. It means your opinion is invited and your contributions count. And it means a career filled with pride, knowing you are part of an environmentally-conscious, action-oriented organization with big plans for the future. The opportunity to bring the future of living to homeowners based on what Canadians value is exciting – and we’re making it happen.

Learn more about what makes working at Mattamy special and our award-winning culture.

What we offer

Mattamy’s Greater Toronto Urban (GTU) multi-residential division is the growth engine of Mattamy Homes Canada. In its first three years, the GTU division already enjoys an existing multi-residential portfolio, with formidable brand recognition, and a development pipeline that will see thousands of new mid and high-rise condominium suites brought to the market within the next few years across the GTA area municipalities.

The Vice President, Product Designreporting to Division President, is an innovativeand process orientated professional with a proven track record of building high performing teams. This role plays an integral role in the planning and execution of Mattamy communities in developing future product offerings to meet the evolving needs of homebuyers. This individual will have the opportunity tosupport with acquisition assessments, work “end to end” through the pre-community design, work with community teams during the pre-construction phase, and manage the selection and sale of upgrades via the Design Studio team.

Your personal drive, relationship building ability, strategic mindset, creativity,customer-focus, and passion for continuous improvement is what will set you up for success.

In this role, you can expect :

• Attaching your name to projects that will redefine your career while positively shaping communities for future generations.
• Dynamic and growth-oriented culture with an exciting and forward-thinking team mentality.
• An opportunity to work with one of Canada’s strongest brands.
• Be part of a rapidly growing division that is targeted for Mattamy Canada growth.
• Opportunity to work with senior leaders who will support your vision for growth and excellence.
• Competitive overall compensation with a comprehensive benefits plan, continuous learning and opportunity for growth and fulfillment.

What you’ll do

• Lead the product design portion of our community visioning process helping to establish key building design parameters, amenity and suite programmatic requirements.
• Work with internal community creation teams to establish and document overall project design and product tiers, preferred specifications, and design parameters.
• Provide support in the selection of key design consultants and communicate key product standards to design consultants for inclusion in project specifications.
• Lead high performing teams, coaching, mentoring, and providing performance feedback.
• Develop standardproject specificationstemplate based on corporate branding standards, market, and project specific considerations.
• Support sustainability and other innovation initiatives and objectives that emerge at the community or project level, helping to integrate new features and elements in a balanced way to the larger product design.
• Assess constructability / compatibility of upgrade options with internal teams.
• Work with the Director, Design Studio to appropriately forecast revenue for inclusion in community proformas.
• Assessupgrade program as it relates to ongoing product development progress to determine base offering versusupgrades.
• Multidisciplinary coordination of project teams for market research with support from development, sales, and marketing teams on product development.
• Remain current on specific political, regulatory, and market trends to keep the business informed of potential changes within the industry.
• Foster a culture of service, safety, inclusion and respect for employees, consultants and stakeholders.

What you bring

• Bachelor's (or) degree in Design / Architecture, Business, Engineering,and / or Construction Management.
• 10+ years ofprogressive experience managing complexprojects, coupled with a minimum of 5 years or more as a people leader.
• Experience working in a similar industry with an architectural firm, developer-builder, asset property management, and / or public agencies.
• Proven leadership skills honed by success at the senior management level of mid-sized to major organizations.
• Demonstrable experience executing on long range and / or complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Extensive experience working with consultants, architects, planners, contractors, and municipal and provincial authorities.
• Technology savvy with proven experience working with an ERP System, together with exceptional analytic, quantitative and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates confidence, leadership skills, honesty, andintegrity together with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Innovative and creative mindset with an entrepreneurial spirit constantly aware of market and evolving customer desires.
• MBA or similar
• Understanding of building drawings, codes, and site specifications.

We encourage applicants who meet most of the role requirements to hit that submit button and apply! It’s okay if you don’t have 100% of the requirements. If you’re the right candidate, we’ll help you learn and grow.

Who we are

Mattamy Homes is the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America, with 40-plus years of history across Canada and the United States. Every year, Mattamy helps more than 8,000 families realize their dream of home ownership. In Canada, our communities stretch across the Greater Toronto Area as well as in Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton.

Be yourself. We want it that way.

At Mattamy, we're passionate about creating and promoting a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work. Diversity and inclusion are important to the work we do to support our homebuyers, colleagues, and communities. From how we build our teams to cultivating our leaders, we're on a journey toward a welcoming, barrier-free culture for everyone.

Mattamy Homes Canada is committed to providing accommodation for people with disabilities. If you require accommodation through any aspects of the selection process, please notify us on your application and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Qualified applicants will be contacted directly by the Talent Acquisition team.