NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as aTIME100 Most Influential Company, aFast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firmand atwo-time 2025 AIA National Honor Awardrecipient. 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 capitalsaround the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn moreabout our firm, seewhat it’s like to work hereand explorerecent projectsandideasatNBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today!The role at a glance:
NBBJ California is seeking a 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 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: Provide hands-on design work for 1-2 projects, ranging in 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 peers firm-wide, enhancing collaboration and design quality.
- Methodologies: Ensure projects utilize the latest design/visualization methods and technologies.
- Process: Champion proper process design and encourage designers to lead alongside PMs and PAs.
- Expertise: Apply sound design methods across practices, while developing expertise in a single typology.
- Integrated Design Delivery: Collaborate with multiple disciplines to ensure rigorous, integrated project delivery.
What you will need to succeed:- 1+ years of experience
- Bachelor's Degree: B Arch or M Arch desired
- 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
- 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
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative, open environment
- Ability to travel, if the project requires
The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $66,000-70,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.
This role requires the individual to be based in the United States.
