Senior Architectural Designer

Role at a glance

NBBJ New York is seeking a Senior Architectural Designer to join our team. We are seeking an Architect, with experience with good conceptual, visual, and communication skills to work in a highly collaborative and design-oriented studio. At NBBJ, a Senior Architectural Designer is responsible for supporting design leadership on projects, contributing to setting design quality standards, fostering a collaborative design environment, and advancing the firm’s design reputation through active participation in project work, team mentorship, and client interactions.

• Set Expectations:
  Define and exemplify quality standards through design reviews, mentoring, and open discussions.
• Inspire:
  Encourage radical thinking and creativity at all levels, leading the studio toward impactful design.
• Create:
  Prepare design materials that refine and optimize design solutions, with responsibility for high-quality presentation drawings, models, construction documentation and supporting narratives from concept to construction, ensuring holistic design continuity.
• Review/Critique:
  Ensure design quality by reviewing projects and engaging teams in firm-wide peer reviews.
• Present/Communicate:
  Craft and present compelling design stories to clients and peers.
• Network Internally:
  Connect with design colleagues firm-wide, enhancing collaboration and design quality.
• Methodologies:
  Continuously stay informed about emerging design applications, tools, visualization methods, and technologies, and actively champion the development and adoption of innovative methodologies that enhance and streamline the design process.
• Process:
  Collaborate with the PA and PM to organize project work and team structures, fostering strong design leadership across all phases and aspects of the work.
• Integrated Design Delivery:
  Collaborate with multiple disciplines to ensure rigorous, integrated project delivery.

• 12-15 years of professional experience
• Healthcare, Corporate or Commercial experience a plus
• Bachelor's Degree: B Arch or M Arch desired
• Architectural licensure a plus
• Deep understanding of high-performance building concepts, with LEED Accreditation or at-or-within 18 months of hire
• Strong conceptual design and schematic design skills
• Experience seeing a project through all phases
• Strong verbal and graphic communication skills and ability to work with diverse teams of designers
• Proficiency in Revit with 3D modeling skills;
  Sketchup, and/or Rhino desired
• Working knowledge of Adobe Suite;
  Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design
• Interest and experience in Grasshopper workflows are beneficial
• Ability to participate in multiple projects and manage deadlines

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between . Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.