Senior Project Designer

Description

Where are you going?

Where can we go together?

Come along with us in pursuit of a more humane world. Our mission driven approach keeps us at the front lines of critical issues and many kinds of user experiences. NAC is a group of thought leaders, trailblazers, and experts dedicated to bringing our clients’ ideas to life. We have also won a national design award or two
-just a humbling reminder that we are on the right path of excellent stewardship and giving back. NAC Architecture is a national firm with four offices located in Los Angeles, Seattle, Spokane and Columbus, Ohio.

We are experts in the field of Pre-K through
12, Higher Education and Healthcare environments that promote student/teacher well-being and an exceptional patient/provider experience. We are a team of doers, committed to designing cutting-edge spaces that make a positive impact in our communities.

Our Columbus Ohio office is currently seeking an inspired Senior Project Designer who is eager to bring design expertise and leadership to our healthcare projects while keeping our vision in mind to “Make the World More Humane.”

Summary

Senior Project Designer
- Partners with firm leadership to advance design culture, inspire innovation, and integrate research in all of NAC's work. Provides oversight, direction, and leadership to all associated design disciplines (Architecture, Interior, Landscape, Systems, Site) on the project. Senior Project Designer is the leader in developing and facilitating development of conceptual images and models representing alternative design scenarios for the project. Provides guidance and direction to project team for further refinement of alternative design scenarios.

Engages in activities that differentiate and promote NAC’s brand and distinctive design quality.

Requirements

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for conceptual design success on all assigned projects. Provides guidance to the design team in the development of conceptual design alternatives on projects. Responsible to establish design aspirations for various projects
• Provides guidance in the selection and integration of collected research, ideas, data and concepts. Provides leadership and oversight for team organization and development of conceptual framework for the project
• Responsible to guide the execution of design concepts throughout all phases, with particular emphasis on early phase development. Works with team members to document and organize these concepts as foundational ideas to the project story
• Integration of performance-based strategies into design solutions
• Committed to an integrated practice by collaborating with technical leaders and subject matter experts across disciplines
• Responsible for cultivating high-performance teams. Nurture an environment of inclusion, collaboration, experimentation, innovation, creativity, and mutual respect. Encourages critical thinking and critique of NAC's design work for continuous improvement.
• Responsible for mentoring and growing emerging professionals toward future creative leadership
• Leads and provides guidance to teams in the development of ideas and concepts that can achieve firm differentiation and peer distinction
• Facilitates design charrettes and organizes regular design team meetings
• Establish and monitor the project work plan and design staff assignments
• Responsible for orienting project characteristics that exemplify NAC’s Just Cause and strategic goals
• Contributes to the development of intellectual capital and content to support NAC's brand
• Collaborates with marketing and communications teams to pursue publication of our projects that differentiate, and promote our brand locally, regionally, and nationally. Participates in the submission of NAC projects for design awards consideration
• Promote and contribute to firm's design and thought leadership through participation in events that represent the firm within the design community including community, public, and professional presentations as well as speaker panels
• Communicate design vision through business development and marketing efforts including interviews and proposals

Competencies:

• Strong conceptual design and schematic design skills…