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About the Role
The Design Principal will act as the key connection to HDR's world-class expertise for clients, upholding the highest standards of design excellence and innovation with an entrepreneurial approach to the firm's overall design strategy. This role involves leading project teams, promoting design excellence, engaging with client leadership, developing professional networks, pursuing new business, growing craft, mentoring talent, and leading by example to inspire teams and promote a collaborative culture.
Responsibilities
- Champion design excellence for the local office/region.
- Partner with Office and Regional Leadership to support operational plans and processes that meet project excellence goals.
- Participate in strategic marketing pursuits, client interviews, and presentations to win new projects/clients.
- Serve as a role model and mentor, positively motivating, challenging, inspiring, and developing others to pursue design excellence.
- Schedule and sponsor formal and informal design reviews.
- Establish and support a design-curious office culture that promotes design excellence and HDR's brand.
- Promote HDR to potential candidates and assist with the interview process for new hires when appropriate.
- Lead design, technical, and management objectives with a commitment to the successful completion of multiple projects, in alignment with HDR's design philosophy.
- Advocate for sustainable approaches and practices that promote healthy and regenerative environments and the well-being of occupants.
- Collaborate and co-create ideas and concepts within a team and across disciplines in the successful delivery of projects at all scales and complexity.
Requirements
- Experience functioning as a lead designer on a variety of project scales and complexities.
- Experience in institutional clients in Healthcare, Civic, Education, Science, and Transportation Architecture is ideal.
- Proven record of winning project pursuits and maintaining strong client relationships.
- Experience and/or interest in integrating sustainable building design.
- Excellent leadership and mentoring skills.
- Ability to collaborate and integrate with existing team.
- Active member in industry associations.
- Ability to communicate the designs we create through hand sketches, models (physical/virtual), and other media.
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture.
- 15 years related experience.
- A minimum of 7 years of project management experience.
- Registered Architect.
- Must have experience on large-scale projects.
- Must be able to lead a team on projects and make client presentations.
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project).
- Extensive knowledge and experience within the local and regional market.
- Strong team leadership, mentoring, motivational/organizational, and people skills.
- Desire to work towards the integration of holistic sustainable processes into design projects at early design stages.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be willing to travel.
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.
Skills
- Design excellence
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Client engagement
- Business development
- Sustainable design
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project)
Location
- Phoenix
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 15 years related experience
- 7 years project management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture
About the Company
- At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day.
- HDR is home to world-class expertise.
- HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day.
- This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.
Equal Opportunity
- As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.
- Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.