Design Director

Who Are We

At Perkins&Will we passionately believe that design can transform lives and enhance communities creating healthy sustainable places to live learn work play heal move and explore. Were in it for the greater good; we design to create places with meaning and we design with purpose. Join the brightest minds in architecture!

Who Are You

Perkins&Will is seeking a highly motivated individual with a minimum of 15 years of professional experience to fill the role of Design Director for our Denver Studio.

To join usyou should have:

• Professional degree in architecture or related discipline.
• Professional architectural license.
• 15 years of professional experience.
• Knowledge of industry regulations health/life safety requirements and building codes
• Knowledge of site analysis conceptual design schematic design design development contract documents and construction
• Strong design portfolio ideally broad-based on a range of project types.
• Strong project budgeting and contract negotiation skills.
• Strong working relationships with clients and consultants.
• Experience in hiring directing mentoring and coordinating successful project teams
• Strong ideator and conceptual thinker
• Working knowledge of Revit. Working knowledge of conceptual modeling tools such as Rhino and Grasshopper
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office / Adobe Suite
• Working knowledge of visualization tools such as Enscape and VRay
• LEED GA and a Professional Accreditation in one area of Living Design that interests you (LEED AP with Specialty BREEAM AP WELL AP SITES AP Passive House Institute Certified Passive House Consultant/Designer CPHC/CPHD or ILFI Living Future Accreditation) upon hire or within six months of hire.

What will you Do

The Design Directors overall responsibility is to champion design excellence within the Denver studio assuring all project designs adhere to the firms commitment to creating a better more beautiful more equitable world through Living Design. As a key office leader and central member of the Management Operations and Design (MOD) studio leadership structure theDesign Director represents the firms commitment to design for all practices and disciplines of a studio. The Design Directors will foster a culture of design within our studio and are responsible for the recruitment and mentorship of design talent ensuring the elevation of diverse talent and skillsets and building a bench of the next generation of design talent within a studio in collaboration with studio and firmwide addition to promoting the firms core values internally the Design Director represents our commitment to design through public cultural and academic communities.

Key attributes and responsibilities of the Design Director include:

• Partners with the Managing Director and Operations Director to lead the studio by setting strategic goals and ensuring adherence to the goals.
• Provides visionary design leadership by setting a clear direction for the studio guiding teams in the creation of design concepts and ensuring alignment with project goals and client expectations.
• Oversees the quality of the design process product and delivery for the studio.
• Champions creative excellence and ensures all projects in each practice area of the studio fulfill the firms Living Design Framework.
• Participates in project scope delineation work plan creation and implementation and fee negotiations.
• Participates in staffing and team organization and composition by helping to identify team members for project teams in alignment with client goals team member skillsets and aspirations.
• Leads mentors and inspires multidisciplinary design teams to foster a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Collaborates with clients stakeholders and project teams to understand project requirements and develops innovative design solutions that meet functional aesthetic and financial objectives.
• Provides guidance to project teams and conducts regular design and quality control reviews to ensure that the firms standards and design goals are being met.
• Works with firmwide leadership to request organize and execute peer workshops at the appropriate point for each project.
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with key decision-makers and influencers on client teams.
• Partners with local Talent Managers and studio leadership to identify interview recruit and mentor design staff.
• Advances the design culture of the firm at the local studio level focusing on firmwide initiatives like DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) career development and talent advancement.
• Mentors staff to ensure their personal and professional development goals are met.
• Actively participates in represents and champions the Design Board directives and goals.
• Crafts and maintains the studios manifesto in partnership with the Managing Director Operations Director and other design principals.
• Facilitates the professional development of all architectural design staff through sponsorship of educational seminars conferences and internal design discussions.
• Builds relationships with professional organizations and academic institutions.
• Keeps abreast of current developments trends and practices within the design industry.
• Participates in studio marketing activities to include all go/no-go decisions and has a leadership role at interviews.
• Participates in marketing helping to strategize and win work for the studio. Monitors advises reviews and participates in the approval of marketing.

We foster a culture that is diverse and inclusive and strive for pay practices that are fair competitive and reflect our commitment to pay equity. Our compensation decisions include but are not limited to a candidates qualifications including skill sets education experience and training licensure and certifications credentials if applicable and business-related factors. This practice extends to all employees including performance considerations for merit increases job promotions and transfer opportunities. We additionally review our pay practices conduct pay equity audits and ensure our managers are trained in our pay practices on an annual basis. At the time of posting this job advertisement the annual pay salary range for this position if located in Colorado is between $158800 and $233400 commensurate with qualifications.

Benefits: medical dental vision wellness LTD Life Insurance 401k PTO

Qualified and interested candidates should submit a resume and work samples. Include your resume and a compact representative sample of your work (no larger than 4MB).

*Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Perkins&Will has established and adopted an Equal Employment Opportunity policy (EEO) which is part of the Companys Human Resources Policy. The purpose of this EEO policy is to ensure that all employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis and without regard to sex race color age national origin religion disability genetic information marital status sexual orientation gender identity or expression gender reassignment citizenship pregnancy or maternity veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national federal state or local some cases local laws and regulations may provide greater protections than those outlined here and employees will be covered by the laws of their local jurisdiction.

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision
Perkins&Will will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information.

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