One - Junior Designer - Design

Position: Year One - Junior Designer - City Design
Location: Greater London

**** Join SOM’s Year One Program as a Junior Designer - City Design
**** Our Year One program picks up where your formal education leaves off, with a suite of events and creative initiatives to help you get the most out of your first year ngside your day-to-day project responsibilities, we’ll encourage you to expand your learning and to propose bold ideas for the future of design. SOM offers the best of both worlds: the hands-on experience of small, dynamic studios, and the resources and diversity of a global organization.

Our interdisciplinary firm affords a wealth of opportunities for emerging designers; our collaborative approach means that your ideas and creativity will be valued and recognized from day one. In keeping with SOM’s reputation for innovation, our Year One program invites you to shape the future of the practice with us. Start here to dive into the profession, chart your path forward, and make your mark.

At SOM, we are a collective committed to shaping a better future for our clients, communities and planet. We aspire to create the most sustainable, impactful work through creative, interdisciplinary teams with all the resources and diversity of a global firm. We value those who are passionate about excellence, innovation, integrity, inclusivity, and collaboration. Together we can achieve great things.
**** Instructions for Year One Applicants:
**** Complete applications must include Resume or CV and Work Samples. Work Samples shall be one PDF attachment, 10-20 pages, maximum 5 MB. Submit Work Samples as part of your application in the section where the application asks for your Resume or CV. Applications that do not meet this criteria will not be reviewed.
** SOM is a global collective of talented and passionate people―help us understand what you would bring to the table.
****** Success at SOM Means****
* ** Ideas:
** We believe in a meritocracy of ideas.  We look to everyone to actively contribute to the discourse in the firm.
* ** Knowledge:
** We believe that expertise is the result of lifelong learning.  We are not expected to know everything, but rather to passionately pursue answers, develop new skills and deepen our knowledge.
* ** Product:
** We strive for excellence in the concept, quality, and delivery of our work.
* ** Individual:
** We value individuals who bring the highest standards of professionalism and personal integrity in the way they work.  Each person can develop and contribute their wealth of attributes, skills and knowledge to support the overall health of the firm.
* ** Team:
** We value the power of interdisciplinary integration.  A positive team culture in which everyone collaborates openly towards common goals is essential.
* ** Firm:
** We have a history of making transformative contributions to the profession and our communities. We are constantly innovating and attempting to bring new approaches, solutions and processes to our work.
**** Position Responsibilities
***** 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 / zoning codes, and phasing and implementation techniques. Is able to enrich 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…