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About the Role
The Designer I role is an entry-level professional position responsible for supporting project teams through design exploration, visualization, documentation, and technical development. Designer I team members actively participate in the RIOS design process while building foundational expertise in project delivery, sustainability, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the design process through ideation, modeling, drafting, visualization, and technical production across project phases.
- Assist in the preparation of graphics, diagrams, renderings, presentations, and early technical documentation aligned with project goals and design intent.
- Communicate design concepts and thinking through visual, written, and verbal presentations.
- Contribute innovative ideas and proactively engage in project tasks and team discussions.
- Participate in research, precedent studies, sustainability investigations, and early technical explorations.
- Support project teams in maintaining organized project files, documentation, and collaboration platforms.
- Support project teams through digital modeling, visualization, documentation, and presentation development.
Requirements
- Strong design sensibility and passion for creativity and innovation.
- Strong graphic communication and visualization skills.
- Excellent organizational and time-management abilities.
- High degree of self-motivation, curiosity, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
- Ability to work effectively in collaborative and interdisciplinary team environments and contribute to positive office culture.
- Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
- Commitment to sustainable and responsible design practices.
- Eagerness to learn and grow an understanding of project documentation standards, BIM workflows, file organization, and model management best practices.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture or equivalent professional experience.
- 0–3 years of professional experience in architecture
- Familiarity with software such as Revit, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), and other visualization or modeling tools.
- Working knowledge of BIM workflows preferred.
- Experience with Lumion, Grasshopper, Dynamo, SignAgent, or similar design technologies is a plus.
Skills
- Revit
- Rhino
- Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
- Visualization tools
- Modeling tools
- BIM workflows
- Lumion
- Grasshopper
- Dynamo
- SignAgent
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- 0-3 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture
- Master's degree in Architecture
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- 401k matching
- PTO package
- Reduced summer work hours
About the Company
- RIOS is an international design collective.
- We are actively in pursuit of wonder within the design of the built environment.
- We believe design is an act of optimism through which invention and ideas change the world.
- We practice interconnected design across architecture, placemaking, landscape architecture, and experience design to define design as a continuum.
- We follow a process that begins with attunement, where program and context shape strong conceptual thinking to establish a holistically informed big idea through which we develop form, confirm function, and define experience.
- This serves as the foundation for exploring ecology, materiality, sustainability, and tectonic expression.
- We are known for bold solutions that are inclusive of the wider context and grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration, resulting in resilient, innovative, and meaningful design outcomes.
Equal Opportunity
- RIOS is an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified candidates with arrests/ conviction records will not be excluded from consideration.