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# Product Architect at Vessel Technologies

- **Company:** Vessel Technologies
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel/dddcd5f9-b127-4a7c-ac58-6a02e788b2a3

## Job description

Come Reinvent the Building Most architects spend their careers designing buildings one at a time. At Vessel, we're doing something fundamentally different. We believe the building itself can become a product: thoughtfully designed, relentlessly engineered, continuously improved, and produced with the precision and discipline we expect from the world's best consumer products. Housing today is too expensive to build, too slow to produce, too complicated to operate, and too often disappointing to live in We don't believe incremental improvements to the way buildings are constructed will solve that, so we're redesigning the building itself Vessel brings together architecture, engineering, manufacturing, technology, and first-principles thinking to build an entirely new generation of multifamily buildings We're backed by institutional partners including Lennar, America's largest homebuilder, and our buildings are already home to residents in the United States Now we're looking for an exceptional architect to help us design what comes next. This Is Not a Traditional Architecture Job At Vessel, our architects are much closer to industrial designers than traditional project architects. You'll work on a product, not a single building. You won't design a building, document it, hand it over, and start again You'll study how people actually live in Vessel buildings, and visit completed ones to see what we got right and what we didn't You'll rethink a kitchen because residents use it differently than we imagined You'll investigate new materials that could make a home better, simpler, or more durable You'll prototype ideas with engineers and challenge assumptions that have existed in architecture for decades Then you'll make the product better. Again and again. The work is fast, hands-on, and crosses traditional professional boundaries. Because we're still building both our products and the company itself, an exceptional person can have an outsized impact very quickly. If what you want is a conventional career at an architecture firm, this probably isn't the job. If you want to help invent a new way of creating buildings, it might be.

## What You'll Work On

Design the Product Help shape the architectural design of Vessel's products, from how a resident moves through an apartment to layouts, circulation, accessibility, materials, fixtures, and finishes Design for repeatability: instead of asking “what works for this project,” you'll learn to ask “what is the best solution, and how do we make it work thousands of times?” Understand the Resident Spend time in Vessel buildings, observe how residents actually live, and listen to feedback Study what works and what doesn't, and turn those observations into product improvements Be as interested in people and behavior as you are in drawings Experiment Research new materials, components, fixtures, finishes, technologies, and spatial ideas Develop concepts, prototype them with engineers, test them, and sometimes start over Treat every experiment as a chance to learn something, whether or not the idea works Make Calypso Better Help develop successive generations of Calypso, Vessel's current multifamily building platform, incorporating lessons from residents, manufacturing, construction, operations, and engineering Help decide what belongs in the standard product, what should become an option, and what shouldn't be done at all Help Invent What Comes Next Explore new Vessel products, configurations, and ways of living, beyond Calypso Contribute ideas that could become the products Vessel is building a decade from now Design With Engineering, Not Around It Work side-by-side with Vessel's mechanical engineers, where architecture owns what the product should be and engineering owns how it gets built Care about manufacturability, assembly, tolerances, interfaces, cost, durability, maintenance, and repeatability, not just appearance Understand the Rules Well Enough to Challenge Assumptions Develop a strong understanding of the U.S. building codes that affect our products, including accessibility, egress, and fire and life safety Work with our technical architecture team to build code requirements into the product from the beginning, not discover them at the end Learn to tell the difference between “how buildings are normally done” and “what the code actually requires” See Your Work Become Real Travel periodically to Vessel projects in the United States Walk buildings you helped design, watch them being assembled, and talk with the people building and operating them Bring what you learn back to Tel Aviv and make the next one better Who We're Looking For We're less interested in checking every box than in finding an unusually talented person with the right way of thinking. You probably have around 5–8 years of professional experience in architecture, industrial design, product design, or a closely related discipline. More importantly, you: Are intensely curious Are a systems thinker Care deeply about how people experience the things you design Like getting into the details Enjoy research and experimentation Are comfortable questioning assumptions Want to understand how things are actually made Are excited by working directly with engineers Are comfortable moving quickly and figuring things out as you go Have high standards but don't need a large organization or elaborate process around you to do great work Want responsibility, not simply assignments Also: Working knowledge of Revit and fluent written and spoken English Experience with SolidWorks, interiors, prefabrication, DFMA, manufacturing, modular construction, or productized building systems is useful, but less important than intelligence, curiosity, taste, and the ability to learn quickly A U.S. architecture license is a plus, not a requirement

## Why Vessel

There aren't many opportunities in an architect's career to help create an entirely new category of building. This is one of them. Join a small, multidisciplinary team where architects and engineers work together every day Get direct exposure to decisions that matter and enormous room to experiment See ideas move from a sketch or conversation in Tel Aviv to an actual home in the United States Work at a fast pace, because the problem is urgent: housing is one of the largest industries in the world, and one of the least transformed by modern product design, engineering, and manufacturing Competitive compensation, performance incentives, and equity participation, together with Israeli statutory benefits and additional employee-support programs An office steps from HaShalom Railway Station and the Yehudit light rail stop Build Something That Matters A home is perhaps the most consequential product most people will ever experience. It affects how we sleep, eat, work, raise families, spend time alone, and live together. We think it deserves the same imagination, rigor, and relentless attention to detail that the world's best companies bring to the products they create. Come help us reinvent it.

## About Vessel Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vessel Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes revolutionary multifamily apartment buildings engineered to lower construction costs, reduce risk, and deliver sustainable, technology-enhanced homes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup/VC-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Neil Rubler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Real Estate, Construction Technology (PropTech/ConTech), Multifamily Housing
- **Target customers**: B2B – Landowners, developers, and operators who want to build multifamily housing (market rate, workforce, student, senior, and affordable/income-restricted). Also serves municipalities and community partners.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To offer each person an equal opportunity for an extraordinary life by providing access to homes that are exciting, sustainable, and attainably priced.” (vesseltechnologies.com)

## Products & Services
- **[Calypso]**: A midrise multifamily building system using a panelized, factory-manufactured system that ships flat and is assembled on site. Includes structural system (steel), interior/exterior walls, cabinetry, full interior fit-out, elevators, stairwells, sprinklers, lighting, and building-control systems (Vessel Intelligence). Delivered as a complete, ready-to-occupy building. Features nine-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, in-unit washer/dryers, and is 100% electric and solar-compatible. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total units – has completed 2 buildings (36 units) in the Northeast, has 4 buildings (278 units) under construction, and a pipeline of ~1,600 units predominantly in the Northeast and Florida. Oldest building has been operating for over three years with strong resident retention and renewal rates. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; Built In notes the company offers equity and performance bonuses, suggesting VC or institutional backing.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding from initial Northeast projects into Florida; factory-manufactured panel system enables rapid build (6 months per building); targeting sites as small as 0.5 acres that are uneconomical for conventional development.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Factory-built panel system** reduces construction time to ~6 months, eliminates change orders, and provides fixed per-unit pricing ($140,000–$155,000 per unit) – a significant moat against traditional construction with its delays and cost overruns.
- **Universal Design (“Yoga”)** philosophy ensures spaces work for people of all ages, sizes, and abilities (from children to seniors to wheelchair users).
- **Sustainability edge**: 100% electric, solar-compatible, triple-glazed windows, R-21 insulation, designed for net-zero operations; Energy Star compliant. Older building has performed well for 3+ years.
- **Vessel Intelligence**: Integrated smart building controls (HVAC, lighting, sound) with APIs for operator security systems, providing differentiation in resident experience.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities are scaling production through factory manufacturing and expanding geographic footprint (Northeast and Florida markets). Targeting smaller, infill sites (as small as 0.5 acres) that traditional developers avoid.
- Focus on entitlement partnerships with landowners and communities, offering feasibility studies and fixed-price contracts to de-risk development.
- Emphasizing sustainability and energy efficiency as core product features, aligning with regulatory trends toward electrification and net-zero buildings.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture** with a clear social impact goal: addressing the housing crisis for over 50 million American families.
- **Hybrid workspace** – headquarters in New York, NY, with on-site work in Connecticut as well (Trade Partner Operations Manager role is on-site in CT). (builtin.com)
- **Compensation & equity**: Offers company equity, performance bonuses, 401(K), and disability insurance. (builtin.com)
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Has a dedicated diversity and inclusion staff and a documented equal pay policy. (builtin.com)
- **Perks**: Health insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), technology-forward work environment.
- **Culture described as**: “We hustle hard, innovate boldly, and settle for nothing less than extraordinary… We're looking for visionaries who are relentless in their craft, hungry to build what’s next.” (vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Working on a physical product that combines construction, manufacturing, systems engineering, and smart building technology – ideal for those who want to build tangible, impactful infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [Vessel Technologies – About](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/)
2. [Vessel Technologies – FAQ](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
3. [Vessel Technologies – Careers](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
4. [Vessel Technologies – Lever Jobs](https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel)
5. [Built In – Vessel Technologies Profile](https://builtin.com/company/vessel-technologies-inc)

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