Who Are We?
At Perkins&Will, we passionately believe that design can transform lives and enhance communities, creating healthy, sustainable places to live, learn, work, play, heal, move, and explore. We’re in it for the greater good; we design to create places with meaning, and we design with purpose. Join the brightest minds in architecture!
Who Are You?
Perkins&Will is seeking a highly motivated individual with a minimum of 15 years of professional experience to fill the role of Design Director for our Denver Studio.
To join us you should have:
What will you Do?
The Design Director’s overall responsibility is to champion design excellence within the Denver studio, assuring all project designs adhere to the firm’s commitment to creating a better, more beautiful, more equitable world through Living Design. As a key office leader and central member of the Management, Operations, and Design (MOD) studio leadership structure, theâ¯Design Director represents the firm’s commitment to design for all practices and disciplines of a studio. The Design Directors will foster a culture of design within our studio and are responsible for the recruitment and mentorship of design talent, ensuring the elevation of diverse talent and skillsets and building a bench of the next generation of design talent within a studio, in collaboration with studio and firmwide leaders. In addition to promoting the firm’s core values internally, the Design Director represents our commitment to design through public, cultural, and academic communities.
Key attributes and responsibilities of the Design Director include:
We foster a culture that is diverse and inclusive and strive for pay practices that are fair, competitive and reflect our commitment to pay equity. Our compensation decisions include but are not limited to a candidate’s qualifications, including skill sets, education, experience and training, licensure and certifications credentials if applicable, and business-related factors. This practice extends to all employees, including performance considerations for merit increases, job promotions, and transfer opportunities. We additionally review our pay practices, conduct pay equity audits, and ensure our managers are trained in our pay practices on an annual basis. At the time of posting this job advertisement, the annual pay salary range for this position, if located in Colorado, is between $140,000 and $190,700 commensurate with qualifications
Benefits: medical, dental, vision, wellness, LTD, Life Insurance, 401k, PTO
This job posting will expire on Friday, October 25, 2024. Qualified and interested candidates should submit a resume and work samples. Include your resume and a compact, representative sample of your work (no larger than 4MB).
*Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Perkins&Will has established and adopted an Equal Employment Opportunity policy (“EEO”), which is part of the Company’s Human Resources Policy. The purpose of this EEO policy is to ensure that all employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis, and without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. In some cases, local laws and regulations may provide greater protections than those outlined here and employees will be covered by the laws of their local jurisdiction.
Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision
Perkins&Will will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
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