London, UK
Senior architectural designer
at NBBJ
NBBJ is hiring a senior architectural designer to join its team in London.
NBBJ is a design and architecture firm fuelled by ideas and a culture of collaboration. With offices around the globe, the diverse perspectives of your future colleagues and clients will inspire and challenge you to be extraordinary. We partner with leading institutions including the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; commercial developers who are looking to create science communities for future discoveries; and technology pioneers such as Amazon and Microsoft to create next generation workplaces.
This role at a glance
NBBJ London has an expanding commercial science sector and is seeking a senior architectural designer, with approximately ten years’ of experience and excellent conceptual, visual, and communication skills to work in a highly collaborative design-oriented studio.
In your new role, you will:
- produce rapid visualisation of concepts
- develop detailed design concepts and ability to produce construction level documentation
- lead the work of other team members, providing mentoring and guidance
- lead client pitches, presentations and design competitions
- provide thought leadership in high-performance building concepts
- provide expertise in leading projects with team members, clients and contractors
- assist with new business development
What you will need to succeed:
- qualified architect with minimum ten years’ of post-qualification work experience
- strong conceptual design and schematic design skills for high performance buildings
- knowledge and experience of low and zero carbon design strategies
- portfolio of delivered projects
- strong verbal and graphic communication skills and ability to work within diverse teams of designers
- ability to participate in multiple projects and manage deadlines
- proficiency in Revit with 3D modeling skills; Sketchup, and/or Rhino desired
- working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- ability to thrive in a collaborative, open environment
- ability to travel subject to project requirements
Why choose NBBJ?
We believe that all NBBJ employees should love their work. This means not only loving what you do but having pride in your workplace. We strive to be that irresistible place to work by enhancing your employee experience with customised career development plans and comprehensive benefits. In addition to 100% covered employee healthcare costs and pension contributions, we offer unique professional development opportunities, volunteer opportunities and access to leading technology and resources to further help you love your work and advance your career.
About:
- NBBJ has been named three times by ‘Fast Company’ as one of the most innovative architecture firms
- Founded in 1943, our first office opened over 75 years ago in Seattle, Washington. We now have 12 office locations around the globe
- we are a transdisciplinary, cross-practice focused firm with a deep portfolio of civic and cultural, commercial, corporate, healthcare, higher education, science and technology, sports and urban environment projects. We also have several areas of service expertise including architecture, environmental graphic design, interior design, lighting design, workplace consulting and more
- in the past decade, NBBJ has received more than 300 awards from leading global, national and regional award programs across the business, real estate and design communities
- we work with five of the top global high-tech companies, 14 of the US News and World Report Top Hospitals, and four of the top ten highest-ranked learning institutions
- our clients include institutional leaders such as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford Universities, Google, Samsung, Cleveland Clinic and Tencent
Our values
More than words on a page, our values sustain our culture, drive our actions, and impact every level of our practice. In our work, we never settle for the status quo and always strive to live by our values in service to our clients’ organisations, our profession, our society and ourselves.
Benefits:
- we exist to create enduring value for our clients and society
- we fulfil our legacy through brilliant design, steward leadership, and enabling rewarding careers
- we know that our people are the lifeblood of our firm – and essential to our humanistic heart and soul
- we embrace the power of teams and collaboration to unleash breakthrough creativity
- we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion through listening, learning, and humility
- we are a leadership intensive and role based firm
- we prize innovation, never stop learning, and seek to share what we know
- we are dedicated to the realization of resilient and sustainable outcomes
- we all share in the realization of our ‘design, people, business’ triple bottom line
- we deliver design excellence – and we design for life
NBBJ is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
M/F Disabled and Vet EEO/AA Employer.