London, UK
Senior design leader
at Heta Architects
Heta Architects are seeking an experienced design leader to join its team in London.
We are a studio of architects, designers and thinkers who look beyond the physical to design truly sustainable buildings, communities and cities. We offer ‘big practice’ experience within an agile studio setting and work with a diverse range of collaborators and experts from the creative and digital sectors.
We have several international projects at early concept stage and are looking for highly motivated, passionate, and proactive candidates who would like to progress their career and level of responsibility. We are looking for an experienced design leader with proven experience designing exceptional buildings, to lead our design process across a number of projects. As a growing practice we are open to consider candidates at various senior levels that have strong design leadership experience.
The role is a permanent position. It is an exciting time to join us and develop your experience with a young growing practice working across a range of sectors including mixed-use, hospitality, residential, retail, commercial office and urban design.
Qualifications/experience:
- ARB UK registered architect
- over eight years’ professional experience (post-Part 2)
- several years’ experience and success in competitions and concept design stages
- project experience ideally in the UK and internationally
To be successful you will need:
- strong front end design and design leadership skills
- good technical abilities
- strong presentation, graphic abilities and attention to detail
- software skills in Adobe Suite and Microsoft 365 suite (Rhino and Revit skills a plus)
- ability to think strategically and manage complex projects
- excellent written communication, verbal and interpersonal skills (English)
- ability to engage in business development and develop and maintain a strong network
- desire and ambition to contribute to practice research and insight studies, practice management and office culture
- strong leadership skills with the ability to use self-initiative in a fast-paced studio environment
- strong management, organisation and time management skills and the ability to work well across multiple projects
- ability to build strong relationships across the studio and work collaboratively within the team and with our collaborators
- good client relationship skills
- ability and desire to mentor junior members of the team
Salary guide – negotiable depending upon experience. Heta Architects operates a blended model of work from home and studio.
Interviews – due to the current COVID-19 situation, initial interviews will be conducted via video call. Depending on start date and government guidelines the role would begin working from home.
Strictly no agencies or third party applications please.
To submit your application please click the ‘apply’ link below.