Job Description

At Carrier Johnson + Culture (CJ+C), we are fueled by creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. Our team champions a user-first approach that pushes design boundaries and fosters innovation. As a Senior Designer, you'll partner with design and technical leaders to advance CJ+Cs diverse portfolio, encompassing high-rise mixed-use residential, hospitality, civic, and public projects. If you're dedicated to shaping impactful spaces and cultivating client partnerships, join CJ+C to succeed in a dynamic, collaborative, and interdisciplinary environment.

Your Role

As a Senior Designer at CJ+C, you'll lead teams to deliver exceptional design projects, leveraging your creative vision and technical expertise to guide projects from concept through completion. With over 10 years of experience, you're a recognized leader in design-driven projects, excelling in user-focused experiences and empowering clients to bring their visions to life. Your commitment to collaboration, mentoring, and advancing design makes CJ+C the ideal place to grow your career within a vibrant, rewarding, and passionately curious culture.

What You Will Do

• Lead assignments spanning conceptual design, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, and construction administration.
• Provide strategic design leadership, focusing on project organization, production, and execution.
• Foster seamless collaboration with internal and external teams, professional consultants, and strategic partners.
• Embrace an inside-out and outside-in design philosophy, contributing to iterative design processes with team members, using a wide variety of tools to communicate to the team and client, including hand sketching and 3d tools.
• Craft compelling visions for proposals and strategies for interviews to secure project opportunities.
• Mentor junior designers, leading multiple projects with excellence while collaborating with design and technical staff.
• Build and sustain strong client relationships.
• Work closely with your team and across the firm to promote an interdisciplinary design approach, upholding CJ+Cs commitment to design excellence and technical innovation.

Your Qualifications

• Registered Architect required.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in architecture from an accredited university required.
• 10+ years of relevant architecture and design experience, with a strong background in diverse project typologies and scales.
• Strong ability to communicate and present design concepts and their rationales.
• Skilled in addressing client needs, budget constraints, architectural opportunities, or challenges impacting design concepts.
• Knowledge of sustainable design principles and certifications.
• Skilled in Revit, + SketchUp, Enscape, and/or other modeling software and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Exceptional graphics and visualization skills to effectively convey design ideas.
• Proven ability to build collaborative relationships across the firm, with clients, and with key stakeholders.

To be considered, please provide a current portfolio and/or work samples in PDF format.

Final role, title, and compensation will be commensurate with the specific candidate's expertise and skill.