05/04/2026
We’re hiring!
Are you both technically-oriented and creative? Do you love to ask questions and find joy in drawing?
von Staden Architects is a boutique architecture and design firm with a collaborative studio located in Royal Oak, MI. and a fabrication shop in Detroit, MI. Our practice focuses on creating environments that spark change, re-invention, and diversity within our community. Our work is diverse and responsive to each context. We discover through conversations and explore through story telling. Our work inspires making, building, creating, honing, restoring and thinking. It is informed by respect for making.
As Architectural Job Captain, you will be a part of the design, documentation, and organization of a wide range of projects from small to large. Our work ranges from urban multi-family to high end residential to hospitality and corporate office. This position requires at least 5 years of full-time experience overseeing the development of project documentation from concept to construction. Qualified candidates should have a strong work ethic, an intrinsic curiosity about materials, wonder about how things are made and love the art of documentation. And have a sense of humor.
Responsibilities:
Site analysis, as-built documentation, drawing and document set-up
Design documentation: sketching and modelling (both digital and physical)
Construction documentation, drawing and detailing.
Project communication including consultants, clients, and contractors
Qualifications:
Bachelors of Architecture, minimum
Minimum 5 years experience in architecture or design firm
Strong proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, Adobe Suite
Strong graphic presentation skills and a love for visual communication
Technical detailing experience and understanding
A quick mind and a sense of humor, and the ability to tell a good story
Permanent work privileges in the US
For more information, please send your resume and link to online portfolio to [email protected]
Qualified applicants will be contacted via email. No phone calls, please.
