Architectural Designer - Mid-level

Your Role

As a Gensler Architectural Designer, you will harness your creativity and thoughtfulness to create engaging human experiences in our built environment. You have professional skills in expressing design intent through modeling and presentation which enable your partnership with senior designers. In this role, you will enhance your existing strengths while growing toward a leadership role in guiding our clients to design solutions.

Based in a studio of our Oakland office, you will join a team serving clients including life sciences and purpose-built workplace environments. You will bring your design skills to projects in housing and critical facilities practice areas. Through our close partnership with clients, we can leverage design to achieve livable cities, reduce global warming potential, and an engaging work experience for occupants of our projects.

What You Will Do

• Engage directly with senior design leadership in the development of concepts and implementation

• Perform design assignments that include programming client needs, diagramming and modeling conceptual strategies, and implementing design intent through document development

• Develop narratives and strategies for presenting design proposals, to articulate opportunities for consideration by project stakeholders

• Support communication between project team, clients, consultants, and city officials

• Provide design support and documentation during completion and execution of design concepts, transitioning from conceptual evolution to technical execution

Your Qualifications

• Professional degree in Architecture, demonstrated with a rigorous portfolio including both academic and professional experience

• 5 -10 years of relevant architectural experience, with a strong background in conceptual design and visualization

• Fluency in Rhino and professional proficiency in Revit

• Strong communication skills in verbal presentation, written narrative, graphic representation and storytelling

• Analytical and problem-solving skills applicable to reconciling design with engineering requirements

• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with colleagues, with clients, and with other key constituents

• This role is for a licensed architect; however alternative positions are available without a license.