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About the Role
SOM is seeking a dynamic and highly experienced Senior Project Manager to lead major projects or seamlessly transition into existing ones. You will work with design and technical leaders to transform visionary ideas into landmark achievements, shaping scopes, budgets, and timelines while navigating risks to drive progress and inspire teams to deliver excellence.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for the commercial success of your projects and take the lead with the client in managing programme, delivery and fee.
- Coordinate SOM’s design team to enable them to be successful from early concept through delivery, ensuring constructability, performance, and exceptional quality.
- Engage with the multi-disciplinary teams to support coordination and resolve complex challenges with creativity and clarity.
- Actively contribute to mentoring of the next generation of talent and contribute to a dynamic, design-led culture.
Requirements
- A licensed (preferred) architect with 10+ years experience leading large-scale, complex projects.
- A passionate advocate for impactful and sustainable design.
- A natural leader who energizes and inspires interdisciplinary teams to achieve excellence.
- An articulate communicator, capable of contributing to all stages of the project life-cycle from acquisition of new work through to completion and able to understand the impact of good project management on design.
- European and/or Middle Eastern experience is preferred.
- Experience in transport, government projects, commercial, residential and large scale mixed use development is welcomed.
- Experience across multiple disciplines is a plus.
- Portfolios must be submitted for all design and project management positions.
- Applications without work samples will not be reviewed.
- Portfolios should be one PDF attachment, 10-20 pages, maximum 5 MB.
Skills
- Project Management
- Design Leadership
- Client Management
- Team Coordination
- Risk Navigation
- Sustainable Design
- Communication
Location
- London
- Chicago
- New York
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Washington D.C.
- Hong Kong
- Melbourne
- Riyadh
- Dubai
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years experience
Education Level
- Licensed Architect (preferred)
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Accident insurance
- Retirement support
- Employee assistance programs
- Workplace flexibility
- Paid holidays
- Family leave
- Paid time off
- Reimbursement for professional licenses, certifications, and exams
- In-house career development programs
- Mentorship programs
About the Company
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is a global practice of architects, engineers, and planners renowned for designing buildings, interiors, and public spaces that push the boundaries of technical and environmental innovation.
- Our interdisciplinary teams collaborate across an international network of studios to deliver projects of lasting impact.
- Through our built work, research, and advocacy, we are advancing strategies to decarbonize the built environment.
- Our practice was built to champion inclusivity of expertise, people, and ideas.
- Together, we cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset that equips our teams to face new challenges.
- Our studio culture offers opportunities for mentorship, growth, and leadership across project teams, offices, and employee resource groups.
Equal Opportunity
- SOM welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace.
- We believe an inclusive environment benefits our employees, our firm, and our community, while also enriching and challenging our own thinking about design.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
- We have been recognized with the highest ranking awarded on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index.
- We publish an annual Impact Report as part of our ongoing commitment to advancing equity in our practice and the profession.