Junior Designer - Design

At SOM, we are a collective committed to shaping a better future for our clients, communities and planet.

• Generates planning and design ideas, conducts research, documents precedents and scale studies, develops diagrams, renders site plans, and contributes to all manner of graphic and visual production.
• Takes initiative to learn and apply SOM City Design Practice protocols for file management, planning and design processes, and quality control standards for deliverables.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of planning and urban design concepts, building typologies and critical dimensions, utility and infrastructure systems, land development considerations and planning or zoning codes, and phasing and implementation techniques.
• Enriches design concepts through knowledge, research, and proficient application of technical and visualization skills and effectively uses software and appropriate analogue and digital tools to design and document at all project phases.
• Applies a strong conceptual design ability to projects of varying complexity and sites of divergent scales; begins to integrate interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the planning and urban design aspects of complex projects.
• Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Actively collaborates at a project team level by developing, communicating, and critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
• Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with regular interaction and direction from project leaders and team members.
• Actively participates as a junior member of the CDP Team.
• Brings energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and a disciplined work ethic to the City Design Practice.
• Becomes immersed in the SOM office through lectures, design reviews, lunch and learns, site visits, and participation in office activities and professional development opportunities.
• Actively participates in the Year One Program (as appropriate).

• Professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, or Landscape Architecture.
• LEED accreditation preferred.
• Interest in large‑scale planning, mixed‑use and transit‑oriented development, and working in a fast‑paced and intensely collaborative professional environment.
• Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision‑making quality with a high attention to detail, precision, and accuracy at a task‑specific level.
• Demonstrates proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, Lumion, parametric and rendering software, and other graphic software as well as Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office;
  Revit proficiency a plus.

• Health and Wellness:
  Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life & accident insurance.
• Financial: 401(k) matching, pre‑tax spending accounts, and employee discount programs.
• Work/Life Balance:
  Hybrid/flexible schedules, paid family leave, paid vacation, backup child and elder care, and an employee assistance program.
• Professional Development:
  Reimbursement for professional licenses, associated renewals, and exam fees as well as specialized in‑house career development.
• Compensation: $58,000 to $64,000 based on experience, qualifications, location, and education.

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