Gensler

Project Architect - Retail

Gensler$90K — $115K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Professional degree in Architecture with a strong portfolio
  • Licensed Architect (US); California licensure preferred
  • 6-10 years of architectural experience in retail design
  • Preferred LEED accreditation and experience
  • Proficient in Revit
  • Strong knowledge of building codes and standards
  • Excellent public speaking and team moderation skills

Responsibilities

  • Perform technical design assignments from concept to construction documentation
  • Engage directly with clients to secure approvals and coordination
  • Manage project and team coordination with documentation and consulting
  • Facilitate communication among all project stakeholders
  • Provide ongoing design support during project execution
  • Collaborate with external consultants and product representatives
  • Lead coordination for permits, responses to comments, and approvals
  • Oversee the bid process including evaluation of contractor proposals
  • Manage construction admin activities to ensure design integrity
  • Drive project progress through inspections and completion documentation
  • Mentor junior staff by providing project support and technical guidance

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and manage client relationships
  • Chance to mentor junior architects and enhance leadership skills
  • Exposure to a variety of building typologies in retail design
  • Collaborative firm culture with strong team engagement
  • Focus on professional development and ongoing training
Full Job Description

Your Role

As a GenslerProject Architect, your job is to combine creativity and technical knowledge to help guide our clients. You have developed communication and team-building skills which have prepared you to manage projects. In this role, you will have opportunities to develop your existing strengths in design and technical coordination while also beginning to directly manage client relationships.

What You Will Do

  • Perform technical design assignments that include programming client needs, diagramming and modeling conceptual strategies, developing conceptual designs into technical studies, and construction documentation

  • Engage directly with clients in coordination with client or client stakeholders to assure approvals

  • Manage client, team and project coordination, including full documentation coordination with engineering and specialty consultants

  • Support communication between project team, clients, vendors, contractors, consultants, and building and permitting officials

  • Provide design support and documentation during completion and execution of design concepts

  • Collaborate with external consultants, product representatives, furniture dealers, and fabricators

  • Lead coordination with building and planning departments to facilitate permit submissions, respond to plan check comments, and secure approvals

  • Oversee the bid process, including issuing bid sets, responding to RFIs, and evaluating contractor proposals in collaboration with clients

  • Manage construction administration activities, including site visits, submittal reviews, RFI responses, and coordination with contractors to ensure design intent is maintained

  • Drive project progress through punch list walkthroughs, final inspections, and closeout documentation to support successful project delivery

  • Mentor junior staff through project work, technical guidance, and day-to-day support


Your Qualifications

  • Professional degree in Architecture, demonstrated with a rigorous portfolio

  • Licensed Architect (US) required; California licensure preferred

  • 6-10 years of relevant architectural experience, with a strong background designing multiple building typologies of varying scale within retail practice

  • LEED accreditation and experience preferred

  • Revit experience required

  • Outstanding knowledge of building codes, standards and building structures

  • Proficient and confident in public-speaking, and in moderating large teams of consultants, contractors, and clients

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to develop collaborative relationships across the firm, with clients, and with other key constituents

To be considered, please submitportfolio and/or work samples in PDF format.

**The base salary will be estimated between $90-115k plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience.

About Gensler

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 50 locations and more than 6,000 professionals networked across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Founded in 1965, the firm serves more than 3,500 active clients in virtually every industry. Gensler designers strive to make the places people live, work, and play more inspiring, more resilient, and more impactful.
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