Job Description

NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com Join us to make an impact today! The role at a glance: NBBJ Seattle is seeking an Intermediate Architectural Designer - Healthcare Practice to join our team. We are seeking a designer, with experience with good conceptual, visual, and communication skills to work in a highly collaborative and design-oriented studio. At NBBJ, an Intermediate Architectural Designer is responsible for supporting design leadership on projects, contributing to setting design quality standards, fostering a collaborative design environment, and advancing the firm’s design reputation through active participation in project work, team mentorship, and client interactions.In your new role, you will:

Set Expectations: Define and exemplify quality standards through design reviews, mentoring, and open discussions.
Inspire: Encourage radical thinking and creativity at all levels, leading the studio toward impactful design.
Create: Provide hands-on design work for 1-2 projects, ranging in concept to construction, ensuring holistic design continuity.
Review/Critique: Ensure design quality by reviewing projects and engaging teams in firm-wide peer reviews.
Present/Communicate: Craft and present compelling design stories to clients and peers.
Network Internally: Connect with design peers firm-wide, enhancing collaboration and design quality.
Methodologies: Ensure projects utilize the latest design/visualization methods and technologies.
Process: Champion proper process design and encourage designers to lead alongside PMs and PAs.
Expertise: Apply sound design methods across practices, while developing expertise in a single typology.
Integrated Design Delivery: Collaborate with multiple disciplines to ensure rigorous, integrated project delivery.

What you will need to succeed:

5 - 10 years of experience
Bachelor's Degree: B Arch or M Arch desired
Experience in healthcare projects, ranging in scale
Architectural licensure a plus
Deep understanding of high-performance building concepts, with LEED Accreditation or at-or-within 18 months of hire
Strong conceptual design and schematic design skills
Strong verbal and graphic communication skills and ability to work with diverse teams of designers, and develop diagrams and visualization renderings
Proficiency in Revit with 3D modeling skills; Sketchup, and/or Rhino desired
Working knowledge of Adobe Suite; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Interest and experience in Grasshopper workflows are beneficial
Ability to participate in multiple projects and manage deadlines
Ability to thrive in a collaborative, open environment
Ability to travel, if the project requires

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $70,000 and $85,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.

About NBBJ Design

NBBJ is an ideas-driven architecture and design firm dedicated to creating connected communities, healthier buildings and a more resilient environment.

We partner with industry leaders like Amazon, BlackRock, Samsung, Tencent and WarnerBros. Discovery, as well as world-renowned institutions such as the University of Oxford, Atrium Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the NHS to design dynamic, human-centered environments that spark innovation and elevate well-being.

With a global network of architects, planners, researchers, strategists, nurses and interior designers across North America, Europe and Asia, we are united by a shared belief: that design can make the world more inspiring, inclusive and enduring.

Recent Recognition for Our Work and Impact:

🏆 TIME100 Most Influential Companies

🌀 5× Fast Company Most Innovative

🏅 2× AIA 2025 National Awards

🌟 Modern Healthcare Best in Business

Industry

Architecture & Engineering

Company Size

501-1,000 employees

Headquarters

Seattle, WA

Year Founded

1943

Website

nbbj.com

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