Senior Architect

Job Description

Job Description

Opportunity Snapshot A senior design-and-delivery role for an experienced architect who wants meaningful influence, direct client exposure, multidisciplinary collaboration, and a credible path toward studio, office, and firm leadership. The Austin office is smaller, growing, and supported by a strong book of work.

Position Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Designer / Architect to help shape a diverse portfolio that includes clubs and amenities, primary and multifamily housing, resort, and entertainment work. The role is designed for someone who can move comfortably between design thinking, technical execution, project management, client relationships, consultant coordination, and team leadership.

The environment is intentionally less corporate than many larger practices. It is informal, design-focused, collaborative, and highly self-directed. People are encouraged to make their own path, contribute to ideation, work side by side with colleagues, and grow through strong mentorship rather than through a rigid career framework.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Real design influence. The firm values strong design, hand sketching, ideation, and solutions that are unique rather than formulaic.
• A growing Austin platform. The Austin office is smaller and growing, with a strong book of work and room for an experienced person to have visible impact.
• Leadership runway. The position can become a track toward studio, office, and firm leadership for a motivated, talented contributor.
• Broad ownership. Success requires more than production: the role touches project management, client interaction, consultant management, documentation, team leadership, and potentially marketing/business development.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration. Architecture, landscape architecture, and planning work together, creating exposure to integrated project thinking.
• Teaching and mentorship culture. The firm describes itself as a teaching environment with a strong mentorship program, annual goal-setting, 360-degree review, and daily check-ins.
• Career autonomy. Growth is available but not overly structured; people who are self-guided and proactive can build their own path.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute meaningfully to design and project delivery across hospitality/amenity, housing, resort, and entertainment-related work.
• Balance design creativity with sound construction and technical knowledge.
• Lead and inspire teams of design professionals while participating actively in studio ideation.
• Manage consultants and coordinate/assemble complete documentation packages.
• Nurture client relationships and communicate confidently with clients and project partners.
• Integrate architecture with the firm's broader planning and landscape architecture disciplines.
• Use Revit/BIM workflows and complementary graphic/modeling tools to develop and communicate design intent.
• For candidates with interest and aptitude, participate in marketing and business development as part of a broader leadership trajectory.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional architectural/design experience.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture.
• Project management capability in one or more of the firm's areas of focus.
• Strong design and graphic skills paired with construction/technical knowledge.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and communicate effectively with teams.
• Ability to manage consultants and assemble documentation packages.
• Experience nurturing client relationships and interacting directly with clients.
• Licensed architect or actively on the path to professional licensure.
• Professional working experience with Revit, BIM 360, Adobe Creative Suite, and Bluebeam.
• Meets the firm's U.S. citizenship/work-authorization requirement. The source job description uses the phrase 'Permanent US citizen'; exact eligibility language should be confirmed before external posting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to communicate design ideas through hand sketching.
• Working knowledge of SketchUp and/or other modeling software.
• Experience with clubs/amenities, primary or multifamily housing, resorts, entertainment, hospitality, mixed-use, or similarly experience-driven project types.
• Interest or demonstrated capability in marketing and business development.
• Aspiration toward future studio, office, or firm leadership.

Skills & Software

• Strong design judgment, graphic communication, ideation, hand sketching
• BIM / documentationRevit, BIM 360, documentation package coordination, consultant integration
• Adobe Creative Suite; SketchUp and other modeling tools
• Review / coordinationBluebeam ; construction and technical knowledge
• Team motivation, communication, client relationships, multidisciplinary collaboration

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidate is a senior architect who still enjoys design, drawing, and collaborative problem-solving, but who also wants meaningful responsibility for people, clients, consultants, and project outcomes. They are comfortable in an open, informal studio, do not need a highly prescribed career ladder, and naturally create momentum without waiting for detailed direction. They value culture, mentorship, strong work, and long-term growth as much as compensation.

Compensation & Work Environment

• Annual income range: $110,000-$130,000, dependent on experience.
• Competitive compensation and benefit package.
• Profit sharing and matching 401(k).
• 2 weeks PTO, with an option to purchase additional time; 6 sick days; 7 paid holidays.
• Flexible work hours and a remote-working policy.
• Community-giving program and a collaborative, connecting work environment.