Hong Kong
Junior designer
at Snøhetta
Snøhetta is seeking a junior designer to join its team in Hong Kong and Shenzen, China.
For more than 30 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects. Since its inception, the practice has maintained its original transdisciplinary approach and integrates architecture, landscape, interior, product and graphic design across its projects. We represent a multitude of different cultural and national origins, with currently around 350 employees spread on offices in Oslo, New York, Innsbruck, Paris, Adelaide, Hong Kong and San Francisco.
We are now looking for a fulltime junior design architect to join studio Hong Kong. The position will be based in Shenzhen. As a junior design architect in Snøhetta, you will be welcomed into an open, flat-structured, and transdisciplinary team. You will be involved in international projects and given interesting challenges and learning opportunities. Snøhetta is a company that values its individuals, but always in a collective setting. We are proud of having a working environment with high employee satisfaction. The role will report to one of the team leads for architecture.
Formal requirements and competence:
- master’s degree in architecture
- a range of two to five years of professional, post-grad architecture experience in well known architectural firm
- strong design sensibility, talent and rigor
- efficient and productive
- experience working in a team environment
- proficiency in English and Mandarin is required
Required technical competence:
- highly skilled Rhino, AutoCAD user
- proficient in Adobe Creative Suite
- excellent digital presentation skills
- knowledge in environmental design tools such as Grasshopper, One-Click LCA, Ladybug and Honeybee is preferred
Desired personal qualifications:
- strong communication, collaboration, coordination, multi-tasking, and organisational skills
- independent, and self-sufficient, with a proactive attitude
- a high degree of self-motivation, flexibility, and resourcefulness
- structured, punctual, and organised
- dissatisfied with yesterday’s solutions and a fearless approach to innovation and re-invention
Snøhetta offers:
- An exciting cross-disciplinary and international work environment with wide variation of tasks and some of the world’s greatest projects.
- Friendly and outstanding colleagues in the world.
- An opportunity to work with transdisciplinary projects across architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, design, and product design.
- High focus on personal competence development.
- Flexible working hours.
- A lot of fun, social events, and activities.
- Passion for great people and great architecture
Desired startup date as soon as possible.
Please click here to apply by 31 July 2022.
Due to the number of applications we receive, we’re not able to respond to candidates individually. We will be in touch if there is an interest in your application. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Contact person: Cheng Gong, [email protected]