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About the Role

This Senior Project Architect role focuses on interiors, ensuring the integrity of the space's feel, finish palette, acoustics, and detailing while navigating base building constraints, code reviews, and value engineering. You will be the key person ensuring the design vision is realized and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead interior design and delivery on complex projects.
• Direct documentation, drawing production, and QC/QA reviews.
• Coordinate architecture, FF&E, lighting, and acoustics consultants.
• Serve as the technical voice to the client, translating jargon between disciplines.
• Manage regulatory review and AHJ submissions for building code, accessibility, and zoning.
• Run construction contract administration effectively, ensuring thorough follow-through.
• Stay current on building technology and systems relevant to high-rise and mixed-use delivery.
• Contribute to pursuits, proposals, and interviews.
• Lead charettes, pin-ups, and design reviews that produce decisions.
• Mentor staff and manage assignments to grow their judgment.

Requirements

• Treat interior technical coordination as core design work.
• Sit across from clients, base building architects, and MEP engineers, understanding their needs and translating between disciplines.
• Deliver finish and detail packages that hold up in construction and daily use.
• Building, zoning, and energy code fluency.
• Site analysis.
• Experience from preliminary design studies through contract documents and specifications.
• Construction contract administration experience.
• Consultant coordination experience.
• Client communication skills that do not require a translator.

Skills

• Advanced Revit
• Rhino/Grasshopper for conceptual and computational modeling
• Microsoft 365
• Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop)
• Enscape, Lumion, or V-Ray for visualization
• Physical modeling: 3D printing, laser cutting
• Environmental analysis tools such as Ladybug/Climate Studio (a plus)

Location

• SF studio

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in architecture or a related discipline
• Architectural license
• LEED GA within 6 months of hire
• One Living Design accreditation of your choosing: LEED AP with Specialty, BREEAM AP, WELL AP, SITES AP, CPHC/CPHD, or ILFI Living Future Accreditation

Salary/Compensations

• $128,800–$189,300

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan and paid time off
• Professional development stipend and dedicated continuing education time
• Performance-based bonuses
• Access to firmwide affinity groups and leadership development programs
• Studio initiatives and events

About the Company

• Our SF studio is a 100-person team inside a 3,000-person global firm, offering the resourcing and technical bench of a major practice with the accountability and visibility of a small one.
• We are growing and busy.

Equal Opportunity

• Our culture is grounded in a firmwide commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI).
• We conduct annual pay equity audits and train all managers on pay practices.
• We believe inclusion drives creativity.
• Perkins&Will is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
• We are committed to pay equity. Compensation decisions are based on qualifications, skillset, and experience.
• Employees may discuss their own compensation without fear of retaliation.