About this role
Job Description
Who is DBI? Founded in 2002, the DBI team specializes in the evaluation of damaged structures. DBI’s construction experts provide independent recommendations and analysis to clients in the insurance and legal industries. In a complex industry, the company’s mission is to bring clarity to every client served by DBI through hard evidence, expertise, and accuracy.
Why are you interested? DBI is seeking a highly ambitious, driven and experienced Senior Director to open an expansion office in San Francisco. The Senior Director will lead building consulting teams, oversee complex projects, and produce the high-quality deliverables expected of DBI. This is a strategic, high-impact role for a seasoned construction expert who thrives in both the field and office.
This position offers a competitive salary range of $170,000.00 - $215,000.00 plus competitive healthcare benefits, 401k match and twice-annual bonus potential. This role will start as fully remote with the opportunity to select an office location within San Francisco metro area and in agreement with the company Partners.
What You’ll Do
• Engage past client relationships from the insurance and construction industries.
• Facilitate Business Development and Marketing events for new client acquisition.
• Provide construction expertise for a wide range of complex projects including residential, commercial, and industrial.
• Perform on-site inspections following property damage, taking scoping notes, photo documentation, and measurements.
• Develop estimates for all levels of project complexity.
• Produce DBI reports such as BDRs, ROMs, RCCs, and CSIs with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Determine team composition and partner with People & Culture for Workforce Planning.
• Recruit, hire, lead and develop a team of construction consultants for property damage evaluations.
• Oversee project scopes, budgets, KPIs, time entry, invoices, and deliverables for team.
• Drive consistency in estimating, workflow, documentation, and quality standards.
• Support company initiatives and continuously improve processes, tools, and team capabilities.
• Represent DBI with professionalism, integrity, and strong communication during site visits and client interactions.
What You Bring
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience within building consulting and/or construction management projects.
• Strong client relationships from the property insurance industry.
• Strong estimating and project management experience (Xactimate, Bluebeam, P6 or MS Project).
• Ability to lead teams, manage multiple priorities, and communicate findings clearly.
• Comfortable working in the field—including roofs, heights, tight spaces, and post-loss environments.
• Motivated, analytical, detail-oriented, and passionate about construction.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel ~20%.
Why DBI
• Top-tier boutique consulting firm approaching 25 years of business.
• Work that blends field expertise with high-level strategic planning.
• A team focused culture grounded in clarity, integrity, and client connection.
• Meaningful, technically challenging work that influences major insurance and legal outcomes.
• Opportunity to shape team standards, mentor experts, and impact business initiatives.
WORKING CONDITIONS: Frequently requires work to be performed at the site of the property damage or loss, including locations where disasters or catastrophes have occurred; may require evening, overnight, and weekend travel and work; incumbent may be subject to outside weather and environmental conditions, including, but not limited to, extreme heat, cold, and precipitation; incumbent may be exposed to inside environmental conditions, including, but not limited to noise, vibrations, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, heights, chemicals, fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
The incumbent may be required to work in close quarters, crawl spaces, small enclosed rooms, narrow aisles, passageways, or other enclosed areas, requiring physical agility and resistance to claustrophobia. The incumbent may be required to work in high areas such as roofs or scaffolding, requiring physical agility, balance, and resistance to acrophobia.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS: In addition to the working conditions and associated physical activities and requirements above, the incumbent may be required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp, or feel, especially in the course of investigating and assessing property damage; these requirements may include the need to lift weights of up to 50 pounds, including a ladder.
The work requires close visual acuity, with or without correction, to prepare reports containing words, symbols, and numerical figures; the incumbent is required to view a computer terminal, use a keyboard, read printed documents, make detailed visual inspections, perceive color, perceive depth, and have a sufficient field of vision to carry out all inspection and related duties.
Willingness to travel on average of +/-20% of the workweek to accommodate meetings, as well as attend other work-related activities that may be scheduled outside of normal daytime business hours.