Junior Architect Designer – Year One Program (Hybrid)

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid/flexible schedules

Professional development

Job summary

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) invites applicants to join the Year One Program as a Junior Designer in our London studios. This program blends hands-on project work with structured learning, encouraging bold design ideas and collaboration across interdisciplinary teams.

You will contribute to architectural projects under supervision, develop skills in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, and related tools, and engage in graphic presentation and documentation tasks.

Qualifications

• Recent completion of a professional degree in Architecture or a related field.
• Strong collaborative ability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of an aspect of a project under the direct supervision of project leadership.
• Exhibits initiative, process innovation, problem solving, and decision quality with a high attention to precision and accuracy at a task-specific level.
• Produces presentation and contract deliverables such as diagrams, 3D models, drawings, renderings, physical models and animations.
• Effectively communicates internally through timely and appropriate written, oral, and visual means.
• Creates and innovates with a strong conceptual design ability.
• Integrates interdisciplinary criteria to effectively move forward the design of a project component.
• Actively collaborates at a project team level by critically and constructively evaluating ideas.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of building materials, systems, specifications, codes, details and construction techniques.
• Effectively uses appropriate tools to design and document at all project phases.
• Manages time and workload to meet project task deadlines and commitments with frequent interaction and direction from Project Leadership.

Skills

Collaborative ability

Verbal and written communication

Education

Professional degree in Architecture or related field

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

Rhino

Parametric software

Rendering software

Adobe Suite

Job description

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) invites applicants to join the Year One Program as a Junior Designer in our London studios. This program blends hands-on project work with structured learning, encouraging bold design ideas and collaboration across interdisciplinary teams.

You will contribute to architectural projects under supervision, develop skills in Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, and related tools, and engage in graphic presentation and documentation tasks.