Jobs at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

The Architect will lead project portions, communicate with teams, produce deliverables, and mentor junior staff while focusing on sustainable strategies and innovative design.

As a Junior Designer in the Year One program, you will contribute to planning and design projects, conduct research, and collaborate with teams while enhancing your design knowledge and skills.

The Senior Architect leads projects, innovates designs, manages team roles, and ensures quality deliverables while mentoring staff and contributing to firm strategies for excellence and sustainability.

Lead and improve payroll operations and controls, manage the Payroll team, ensure global payroll compliance and accurate reporting, support CFO on finance and accounting projects, drive process improvements and system initiatives (including ERP/payroll systems), prepare for audits, and mentor staff to maintain continuity and scalability across finance functions.

This role focuses on integrating sustainable design strategies, performing environmental analyses, and mentoring team members in sustainable engineering practices. Responsibilities include conducting simulations, advising on performance modeling, and developing standards for carbon reduction.

Lead architectural project teams to deliver design, technical, and financial success. Manage contracts, budgets, schedules, billing, and client relationships; chair meetings; track project risk and compliance; participate in design decisions; supervise and mentor staff; support business development and sustainable strategies; ensure project profitability and timely delivery.

Lead architectural project teams from design through construction delivery, manage contracts, budgets, schedules, billing and profitability, chair meetings, maintain client and sub-consultant agreements, manage risk and compliance, support business development, and mentor staff while implementing sustainable strategies.

Maintain and improve quality of Pursuit and Project data in Salesforce; perform audits, research, entry, and ad hoc analysis. Build dashboards and automated reports, support Salesforce administration and testing, deliver user training and enablement, and partner with marketing and project teams to standardize processes and improve data governance and adoption.