Project Designer V

You will be a key participant in the design process, translating ideas into built environment solutions and seeing those ideas to completion. You will help nurture and develop junior designers and be a voice in your teams and your office for design excellence.

Responsibilities

In collaboration with design leaders and team members, conceptualize design solutions and develop them throughout all phases of a project; Create innovative design concepts that synthesize our clients’ culture, goals and aspirations to deliver solutions responsive specifically to them; Perform as a partner to design leaders, effectively translating shared design goals and ideas of both team and client into thoughtfully refined spatial and material solutions; Focus on schematic design, and design development, while also collaborating closely with project architects to guide detailing and construction documentation; Provide guidance on design intent during the construction administration phase; Direct the preparation of client presentation materials, particularly our 2D and 3D design visualizations, to convey the design in a compelling and sophisticated manner; Lead design presentations when called upon to do so in support of the project and team; Work within our culture of being an integrated practice by closely collaborating with interior designers and typology subject matter experts on holistic design solutions from exterior to interior; Collaborate with technical leaders and engineers to employ sensitive consideration of building systems; Integrate performance-based and sustainable design strategies into design solutions, including supporting the building performance group in their energy modeling efforts; Apply these approaches in the design of large-scale projects and/or multiple projects simultaneously; Mentor and grow emerging professionals

Requirements

Bachelor or Master degree in Architecture; A design portfolio of past and current built and unbuilt design work with clear demonstration of some personal contribution to project conceptualization and detailed development, containing a minimum of 2 fully constructed building designs representing a high level of design excellence; Minimum 10 years of related professional experience; Knowledge of building codes and requirements; Strong verbal and written communication skills; Technical knowledge of exterior and interior materials and building assemblies; Command of Revit, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office; Experience with one or more real-time rendering and 3D rendering software such as Enscape, Twinmotion, and/or V-Ray; Experience with digital media creation and editing in the Adobe Creative Cloud applications

Nice to have

Bachelor or Master degree in Architecture from an accredited program; Architectural Registration in the United States; LEED accreditation; Additional 3D modeling experience in Rhino or other comparable software; Some experience in computational design tools such as Grasshopper and Dynamo