AIA Arizona Job Board

POSTED 3/24/25

Your Role

As a Gensler Design Manager, you will leverage your attention to detail and interpersonal skills to deliver exceptional client projects on time and on budget. Grow your project management experience while working on trendsetting projects across industries.

What You Will Do

• Manage all phases of projects, including project set-up, design and construction administration
• Create and communicate clear and attainable project objectives and project requirements
• Manage project scheduling, budgets, and set-up with sub-contractors, vendors and consultants
• Manage a range of project team sizes, comprised of project architects, design directors, job captains and graphic designers
• Track financial performance of project
• Prepare project proposals, negotiate contracts and fees, coordinate bidding process
• Ensure projects conform to contract

Your Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience in ground up / build to suit architecture projects in one or more of the following typologies: Office, Residential/Mixed Use, Hospitality
• Accredited degree in Architecture required
• Experience with the entire project lifecycle, through post-occupancy
• Experience leading, managing and mentoring multiple project teams
• Experience negotiating project scope and fees
• Knowledge of building codes, standards and building structures
• Proven fiscal accountability and responsibility on projects
• Strong leadership, organization, communication and relationship management skills
• Revit skills are highly valued
• Must have the ability to maintain existing client relationships and build new client relationships
• AIA preferred​

Life at Gensler

At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities.  Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.

As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.

POSTED 3/20/25

GH2 Architects, LLC, a full-service architecture and design firm with offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Denver, and Phoenix seeks architectural interns/emerging professional team members. Since 1973, our company has operated with a flat organizational structure and engages in multiple markets, including education, government/public, healthcare, equine, and historic preservation architecture. GH2 team members participate in a design-oriented practice with colleagues that celebrate exceptional work, client service and engagement with their profession and community. They receive supplemental technical and professional education tailored to their interests and professional goals, and they have the opportunity to work on a variety of project types or focus on a single specialty area.

Emerging professionals at GH2 participate in a design-oriented practice with colleagues that celebrate exceptional work, client service, and engagement with their profession and community.  They receive supplemental technical and professional education tailored to their interests and professional goals, and they have the opportunity to work on a variety of project types or focus on a single specialty area. Responsibilities include all facets of professional practice and client engagement. Positions offer excellent compensation and benefits commensurate with experience and flexible work hours.

GH2 is a firm with a fun and collaborative work environment that fosters design excellence, professional growth, dedication to quality, and mutual respect among professionals. GH2 provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should email a cover letter with salary requirements, resume, and limited work samples in a single pdf file to careers@gh2.com.

All inquiries will be kept strictly confidential.

GH2 team members participate in a design-oriented practice with colleagues that celebrate exceptional work, client service, and engagement with their profession and community.  They receive supplemental technical and professional education tailored to their interests and professional goals, and they have the opportunity to work on a variety of project types or focus on a single specialty area.

Responsibilities include all facets of professional practice and client engagement. Positions offer excellent compensation and benefits commensurate with experience in a team-oriented office environment with flexible working hours based upon a core hour system.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should email a cover letter with salary requirements, resume, and limited work samples in a single pdf file to careers@gh2.com.

All inquiries will be kept strictly confidential.

POSTED 3/20/25

Dekker is seeking interior designers with at least 3 years of experience in a commercial office to collaborate in a team-oriented environment on highly creative designs for multiple projects. As passionate and self-driven team members at Dekker, candidates would play a key role in creating inspired interiors backed by the support of a firm that has been a staple in the industry for over 65 years.

Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively engage in project work with responsibilities as assigned
• Plan and develop design aspects of assigned projects, including investigation, evaluation, technical aspects, and recommendation of design solutions that best meet the client’s needs
• Prepare studies, reports, and presentations and effectively communicate design ideas and progression with clients
• Plan diagrams/layouts during schematic design, demonstrating ability to arrange a unified design
• Prepare scaled drawings and contract documents for building contractors using Revit
• Review consultant drawings for accuracy and coordination
• Provide onsite observation of work during construction to monitor compliance with plans
• Prepare furniture packages and specifications
• Complete tasks essential for proficiency in interior design principles as outlined by the Council for Interior Design Qualification with direction
• Identify and communicate project progress, accomplishments, challenges, and support needed to complete responsibilities
• Carry out and delegate workflows and task assignments to project teams, including outside consultants, to meet project requirements
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to less experienced design team members

Qualifications

• This is a hybrid work environment with 3 days onsite required. Applicants must live in the Phoenix AZ, Albuquerque NM or El Paso TX area
• 3 + Years of Commercial Interior Design experience
• Bachelors Degree in Interior Design or Interior Architecture
• Proficiency with Revit in a professional commercial setting
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite
• Foundational knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop ideal
• Basic knowledge of Enscape rendering software ideal
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and consultation skills

Note:  Please include a PDF or a link to your portfolio, in order to be considered.

Dekker offers competitive benefits and salary packages based on education and experience. For a full list of our benefit options, please visit our careers page.

As a government subcontractor we’re required by the OFCCP to provide applicants with the ability to voluntarily Self Identify as an individual with a disability.  If you’d like to do this you can find the form here:

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/regs/compliance/sec503/Self_ID_Forms/503Self-IDForm.pdf  

Simply include this form with your application.

Dekker is a collaborative group of designers, planners, architects, and engineers, intent on creating passion for the built environment through our work. We believe that architecture and design can be transformational and that it must serve more than just a functional role. It should inspire, protect, delight, and empower users and entire communities. We believe the most innovative designs are created through a multi-faceted perspective of places, people, and their processes. Collaboration, empathy, and understanding, combined with passion and expertise can shape our experiences and our environments. We strive to tune our ability to see things through the eyes, hearts, and minds of our clients. Dekker also fosters a culture that champions sustainable design solutions and occupant well-being, ensuring that each project contributes to a healthier, more sustainable future for all. If you think your vision, passion, and experience would enhance ours, we’d love to meet you.

EEO: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

POSTED 3/17/25

ROLE

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Senior Project Designer driven by a passion for design excellence.  The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing design leadership for commercial projects in our Scottsdale studio.  They will collaborate with project teams to develop a project’s design vision and be responsible for ensuring the integrity of the design from Concept through implementation.

REQUIREMENTS

• Professional Licensure – preferred, not required
• Experience – 10+ years of commercial design experience, including work in master planning, mixed-use developments, multi-family and hospitality
• Design Skills –strong design fundamentals, critical thinking and creative problem solving
• Technical Skills –strong technical understanding of codes, zoning, building systems, and construction methods
• Communication Skills – engaging, dynamic communicator/presenter with both internal teams and with clients and consultants; strong written and verbal skills; quality hand drawing skills
• Team-oriented – successful collaborator in a high-energy team environment
• Software Proficiency – SketchUp, D5 Render, Adobe Creative Suite, Revit, and AutoCAD

BENEFITS OVERVIEW

• Comprehensive benefits – Medical/dental/vision insurance; 401k matching; paid time off + closed week between Christmas and New Year’s; paid parental leave; license/AIA membership reimbursement; paid parking/transit; etc.
• Flexibility – Weekly flex-time and hybrid work opportunities including alternative daily work hours and a compressed work week option
• Professional development & growth – Knowledge building, continuing education opportunities, and project-level mentorship
• Team diversity & engagement – 80+ talented professionals across both studios and growing, with frequent opportunities for collaboration and socializing
• Competitive compensation

CONTACT

Interested and qualified professionals, please email a PDF of your resume and portfolio (no larger than 10mb) to careers@nelsenpartners.com.

Nelsen Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.