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Senior Designer

DLR Group
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Aug 2025
💰 $177,320/yr($110,880/yr$177,320/yr)

About the role

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

What you will do:

  • Oversee project design for K-12 schools.
  • Duties include:
    • Oversee project design and coordination
    • predesign and project kick-off
    • contribute to program development and values
    • schematic design; design development
    • construction document, bidding, and construction administration
    • responsible for project schedule, delivery, and profitability.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Architecture (Graduate degree not required unless mandated by local licensure regulations)
  • Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in architectural design
  • Integrated design process
  • Design trends and national best practices for K12 design
  • Creating/facilitating presentations for regional and national K12 design conferences
  • Leading K12 projects of scale
  • Sustainable design
  • Technical proficiency in Rhino, SketchUp, Revit, GIS, AutoCAD, Twinmotion, Enscape, and Adobe Creative Suite.
  • May permit telecommuting

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range$110,880$177,320 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.

 

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