Senior Architectural Designer

NBBJ; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NBBJ New York is seeking a Senior Architectural Designer to join our design‑driven team. The candidate should bring strong conceptual, visual, and communication skills to collaborate across disciplines on healthcare, corporate, or commercial projects.

The role emphasizes design leadership, mentorship, and client engagement from concept through construction. Required: 12–15 years of practice, bachelor’s in architecture, and proficiency in Revit, 3D modeling, and Adobe Suite, with LEED

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of professional experience in architecture.
• Experience in healthcare, corporate, or commercial sectors.
• Deep understanding of high-performance building concepts with LEED accreditation.
• Strong conceptual and schematic design skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Set quality standards through design reviews and mentoring.
• Inspire radical thinking and creativity across the studio.
• Prepare design materials and high-quality presentation drawings.
• Oversee construction documentation and narratives from concept to construction.
• Review projects and lead peer reviews for design quality.
• Craft and present compelling design stories to clients.
• Foster internal collaboration to improve design quality.
• Advance design methodologies and adopt innovative tools.
• Collaborate with project teams to organize work and leadership.
• Ensure integrated delivery across disciplines.

Skills

Conceptual design

Schematic design

Graphic communication

Team collaboration

Client interaction

Multidisciplinary work

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Architecture

Architectural licensure

Tools

Revit

SketchUp

Rhino

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Grasshopper

Job description

Role at a glance

NBBJ New York is seeking a Senior Architectural 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 Senior Architectural 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: Prepare design materials that refine and optimize design solutions, with responsibility for high-quality presentation drawings, models, construction documentation and supporting narratives from 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 colleagues firm-wide, enhancing collaboration and design quality.
• Methodologies: Continuously stay informed about emerging design applications, tools, visualization methods, and technologies, and actively champion the development and adoption of innovative methodologies that enhance and streamline the design process.
• Process: Collaborate with the PA and PM to organize project work and team structures, fostering strong design leadership across all phases and aspects of the work.
• Integrated Design Delivery: Collaborate with multiple disciplines to ensure rigorous, integrated project delivery.

What you will need to succeed:

• 12-15 years of professional experience
• Healthcare, Corporate or Commercial experience a plus
• Bachelor's Degree: B Arch or M Arch desired
• Architectural licensure a plus
• 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
• Experience seeing a project through all phases
• 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

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between . Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.