Intermediate Architectural Designer - Healthcare Practice

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two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award

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The role at a glance

NBBJ Seattle

is seeking an

Intermediate Architectural Designer - Healthcare Practice

to join our team. We are seeking a designer, with experience with good conceptual, visual, and communication skills to work in a highly collaborative and design-oriented studio. At NBBJ, an Intermediate 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: Provide hands-on design work for 1-2 projects, ranging in 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 peers firm-wide, enhancing collaboration and design quality.
• Methodologies: Ensure projects utilize the latest design/visualization methods and technologies.
• Process: Champion proper process design and encourage designers to lead alongside PMs and PAs.
• Expertise: Apply sound design methods across practices, while developing expertise in a single typology.
• Integrated Design Delivery: Collaborate with multiple disciplines to ensure rigorous, integrated project delivery.

What you will need to succeed

5 - 10 years of experience

Bachelor's Degree: B Arch or M Arch desired

Experience in healthcare projects, ranging in scale

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

Strong verbal and graphic communication skills and ability to work with diverse teams of designers, and develop diagrams and visualization renderings

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

Ability to thrive in a collaborative, open environment

Ability to travel, if the project requires

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $70,000 and $85,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.