Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is searching for a Junior Designer – City Design to join their Year One program in San Francisco. The Year One program picks up where formal education leaves off, with a suite of events and initiatives for young professionals to get the most out of their first year at SOM.

Position Responsibilities

• Generation of planning and design ideas
• Research and documentation of precedents and scale studies
• Development of diagrams and rendered site plans
• File management, planning and design processes, and quality control standards for deliverables
• Basic understanding of planning and urban design concepts, building typologies and critical dimensions, utility and infrastructure systems, land development considerations and planning/zoning codes, and phasing and implementation techniques
• Ability to enrich design concepts through knowledge, research, and application of technical and visualization skills
• Strong conceptual design ability on projects of varying complexity and sites of divergent scales
• Effective written, oral, and visual internal communication
• Active collaboration at a project team level
• Time and workload management
• Energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and disciplined work ethic
• Active participation in the Year One Program (as appropriate)

Qualifications & Skills

• Recent completion of professional Degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban design, or Landscape Architecture.
• Demonstrated proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, Lumion, parametric and rendering software
• Demonstrated proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office
• LEED accreditation is preferred
• Revit proficiency is a plus
• Interest in large-scale planning, mixed-use and transit oriented development
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and intensely collaborative professional environment
• Problem solving and decision-making qualities
• High attention to detail