Senior Architectural Designer
NBBJ Senior Architectural Designer
NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at . Join us to make an impact today!
The 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.
In your new role, you will:
- 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.
What you will need to succeed:
- 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, InDesign
- 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 $180,000-200,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.