National Mission Critical Client Leader

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

Position Summary

As a Mission Critical Client Leader, you will play a key role in business development, client stewardship, and project leadership across mission‑critical market sectors. You will be responsible for cultivating long‑term client relationships, leading complex pursuits, structuring contracts, and ensuring the strategic and financial success of multiple concurrent projects.

You will partner closely with Project Managers, Design Leaders, engineering partners, and sector leadership to align client expectations, elevate project delivery, and ensure seamless communication from pursuit to completion. In addition, you will support and mentor teams, contribute to strategic planning, and reinforce DLR Group’s integrated design culture.

The Successful Candidate Will

Lead Client Relationships & Strategic Growth

• Cultivate and expand relationships with mission‑critical clients, hyperscale operators, colocation providers, and critical operations agencies
• Serve as a trusted advisor, deeply understanding client mission, technical requirements, risk profiles, and operational priorities
• Lead strategic pursuits, including qualification packages, proposals, interviews, and relationship‑building initiatives

Drive Project & Financial Success

Champion Integrated Project Delivery

Serve as a Mission Critical Market Voice

Inspire Teams & Elevate Practice Culture

Required Qualifications

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is $145,000 - $185,000 USD.

About DLR Group

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects. We are 100% employee‑owned : every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value‑based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four‑day in‑office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / M / F / Veteran / Disabled employer.

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