AEC Product Manager We're Hiring

Join Branch and help us invent the future of structural design software!

Branch is a software startup within StructureCraft

StructureCraft is an award-winning structural engineering, manufacturing, and construction company that specializes in timber structures. StructureCraft’s mission is to improve the built environment by demonstrating how the integrated Engineer-Build model produces better, more beautiful, and more efficient structures than the typical adversarial and fragmented construction process. Branch is an extension of StructureCraft’s mission: Branch aims to change how the building industry works by building a smart, modern, end-to-end design tool.

What Is Our Product?

Branch is next-generation 3D design platform for mass timber structures. Branch aims to let users explore designs at a high level (like building massing) and immediately see the impact in terms of literal nuts and bolts (shop drawings, BOMs, CNC files, etc.). Branch is highly interactive and hackable, allowing designers to explore options without limitations. We believe that integrating data from all aspects of the process allows for faster exploration and holistic, elegant designs.

Our Opportunity

Changing the building industry is an ambitious goal! Here are some of the reasons why we think we can pull it off.

• Great People: We have a team full of software experts who also understand and care about the building industry.
• Solid Product Foundations: In our industry, getting the details right is table stakes. Branch has already been used to detail and produce fabrication data for more than 600,000 square feet of mass timber.
• Access to Users and Expertise: Our siting within StructureCraft means we work closely with experts from every stage of the process, from architects to carpenters.
• Long-Term Vision: We’re a startup, but without the short-term focus that often comes with VC funding. We know we’re tackling a hard problem and we’re in it for the long haul!

Having developed Branch quietly for use by StructureCraft, we're looking to grow Branch to the next level. We need your help in changing the industry!

Your Role

• Work as part of a close-knit team that’s passionate about making life better for architects, engineers, and detailers.
• Serve as Branch’s bridge to users: get to know engineers, designers, fabricators, project managers, etc., both at StructureCraft and beyond. Understand how they work, know their problems, and learn their pain points.
• Using your experience and what you’ve learned from users, help design systems and processes that make users’ lives better.
• Work with software developers to solve users’ problems in novel, more efficient ways.
• Help define the user experience for the next generation of building design tools.

Who We're Looking For

• Fast Learners: You love learning and applying new things.
• Problem Solvers: You often think “there must be a better way"…and then you search until you find one!
• Open Collaborators: You believe in clear, honest communication.
• Team Players: You value feedback and are all about finding the best solutions together.
• Built-Environment Enthusiasts: We love that our industry makes physical things: buildings! Good ones are beautiful and efficient. We want to help make more good ones.
• User Focused: Our end goal is to help users design buildings better, faster, and more intelligently than ever before.
• Diverse Thinkers: Different experiences and points of view help teams find better solutions, faster.
• Mission-Driven: You’re unhappy with the status quo in building design, and you’re excited to have a chance to build something better.

Position Requirements

• Education and Professional Experience: You have an engineering or architecture degree and 4+ years’ experience working in the building industry, likely as a structural engineer, computational designer, or architect. You know our industry well enough to know all the ways in which it can improve!
• Driven to Do Better: You can’t help but find better ways to do things. You have many examples of working around a software or process roadblock or automating tedious tasks.
• Superuser: Colleagues routinely turn to you for help with industry software like Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit, or structural analysis tools. You can articulate how to use these tools, each program’s strengths and weaknesses, and what you’d change to make them better.
• Coding Experience: You have an interest in creating software - you’ve written some code - but you love the built environment. You think it’s great to work in an industry that builds physical things!
• Systems Thinker: You are an organized thinker: you can manage many low-level details without losing sight of the big picture.
• Excellent Communicator: You are empathetic and can understand things from others’ points of view. When helping someone else with a problem, you are able to quickly zero in on what they were misunderstanding.
• Agile and Adaptable: You are excited to work in a lean startup: working in an agile fashion, pivoting based on lessons learned, and a willingness to help fill gaps.