Senior Architectural Designer

About the Firm

NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm, and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities, and a resilient environment. With leading clients, diverse colleagues, and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary.

About the Role

NBBJ New York is seeking a Senior Architectural Designer to join our highly collaborative and design-oriented studio. In this role, you will support design leadership on projects, contribute to setting design quality standards, foster a collaborative design environment, and advance the firm’s design reputation through active participation in project work, team mentorship, and client interactions.

Responsibilities

• Define and exemplify quality standards through design reviews, mentoring, and open discussions.
• Encourage radical thinking and creativity at all levels, leading the studio toward impactful design.
• Prepare design materials that refine and optimize design solutions, including high-quality presentation drawings, models, construction documentation, and supporting narratives from concept to construction, ensuring holistic design continuity.
• Ensure design quality by reviewing projects and engaging teams in firm-wide peer reviews.
• Craft and present compelling design stories to clients and peers.
• Connect with design colleagues firm-wide to enhance collaboration and design quality.
• Stay informed about emerging design applications, tools, visualization methods, and technologies, and champion the development and adoption of innovative methodologies that enhance and streamline the design process.
• Collaborate with Project Architects and Project Managers to organize project work and team structures, fostering strong design leadership across all phases.
• Collaborate with multiple disciplines to ensure rigorous, integrated project delivery.

Requirements

• 12–15 years of professional experience.
• Healthcare, Corporate, or Commercial experience a plus.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture (B.Arch) or Master’s Degree in Architecture (M.Arch) desired.
• Architectural licensure a plus.
• Deep understanding of high-performance building concepts, with LEED Accreditation or ability to obtain 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.

Skills

• 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.

Pay

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $120,000 and $150,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on skills, qualifications, and experience.