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Higher Education Market Leader

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Jul 2026

💰 $165,000/yr($150,000/yr – $165,000/yr)

About the role

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:

This is an exciting opportunity to join NBBJ as a Higher Education Market Leader in our Boston Studio. The NBBJ Higher Education Market Leader is an industry-facing expert who is motivated to nurture relationships and pursue new opportunities that elevate collegiate learning, research and campus life experiences for students, faculty and administrators at both public and private colleges and universities.

Market Leaders shape NBBJ’s global practice at the regional and national levels, advancing our commitment to innovation and design excellence. Adept at building long-term strategic relationships, playing a leadership role on projects, and marketing complex projects, this role will work closely with the firm’s Education Practice Leadership team and Marketing Department to build the practice, identify new opportunities, and develop client service strategies to grow the practice throughout New England and the Northeast. The ideal candidate for this role can work both collaboratively and independently, is proactive in delivering success, is able to positively influence others — and can thrive in the face of changing conditions.

In your new role, you will:

Grow the Higher Education practice: develop and maintain new and existing client relationships
Work closely with the Education Practice Leadership Team, Client Development Manager and Market Manager to continually identify and generate business opportunities that broaden the Higher Education practice in a way that is aligned with the practice’s and NBBJ’s firm wide strategic vision
Assist in the development of marketing content that strengthens the Higher Education practice image, value propositions and POV
Provide strategy and vision for proposals and interviews with prospective clients to increase win rate
Generate a strong pipeline — leads and prospects — to increase the Higher Education practice’s reach and influence
Ensure Higher Education practice success for the Boston Studio, including meeting annual sales goals and revenue targets, while also meeting marketing budgets
Advance the Higher Education practice’s reputation through conference presentations, journal articles and social media communications
Be part of a fully integrated design studio and a team member on major Higher Education projects
Be a leader in marketing, a trusted advisor to cl