Designer

Our team members are collaborative, creative, professional, expert and entrepreneurial. Joining our team requires skill, daring, leadership, teaming, humor and a love of Design. We are presently searching for a Designer for our Seattle studio. The Designer, working under general supervision of a Senior Designer or Project Manager, provides design support primarily in project administration, presentations, concept design through design development, and contract documents.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Works with team to develop design ideas and create both presentation and construction drawings
• Drafts technical drawings
• Provide review of engineering and landscape drawings to ensure they comply with design solution
• Ensures integration into overall design
• Preliminary concept plans for larger projects
• May develop and finalize conceptual design for smaller projects
• Oversees Intermediate Designer to review space plans and tackles more complicated issues
• Provides detail for interior and architectural design projects
• Develops and delivers overall design and furniture packages for both interior and exterior
• Assists in developing packages for larger projects
• Obtains cost estimates and produces final cost estimates
• Manages design budget for assigned projects
• May mentor the work of Junior and Intermediate Designers
  

Qualifications:

• Graduate of architecture or design school: equivalent experience may be substituted
• 6+ years’ experience in workplace design, focusing on building repositioning and adaptive re-use projects as well as corporate interiors

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Advanced presentation skills
• Advanced knowledge of space planning
• Extensive knowledge of furnishings and finishes
• Extensive with the concepts of furniture layout
• Advanced sketching and rendering skills
• Advanced architecture detailing skills
• Extensive knowledge of CDs and procedures
• Extensive knowledge of building systems, codes and ADA requirements
• Working knowledge of path of travel requirements
• Working knowledge of contract administration
• Intermediate MS Office Suite skills
• Advanced Revit skills
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills

Salary Range: $72,000 - $86,000 annually, pending licensing, education, and industry experience