Lead, Architect

About Us

WeWork India is one of Indias leading flexible workspace operators Great Place To Work certified (Nov 2024 Nov 2025), aimed at creating flexible workspace solutions for companies of all sizes.

Since its inception in India in 2016, WeWork India has expanded across 63 operational centres in Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad. WeWork India meets distinct workspace needs for various businesses. WeWork India strives to provide customised and curated solutions for various office space needs through its products and solutions.

At WeWork India, were driven by collaboration, creativity, and a shared vision to redefine the future of work. If you're looking to be part of a dynamic, fast-growing organisation that values talent and fosters growth, join us and build your future with WeWork India.

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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 GCs).

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.
• Mentor the team and ensure that the desired levels of quality and accuracy are maintained uniformly across team deliverables.

Experience and Qualifications

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 youll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration, flexibility, and inclusion.