About the Role
NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today!
The role at a glance:
NBBJ Seattle is seeking a Senior Medical Planner in the design and planning of complex healthcare projects including large scale hospitals and ambulatory care centers. This is an opportunity to join a fully integrated design studio where a diverse group of technical architects, interior designers, medical planners and clinical consultants collaborate as a team from concept design through construction.
In your new role you will:
- Help build and lead the medical planning practice for all healthcare projects within the studio
- Design and planning of hospitals and clinics
- Work with clients as a trusted partner to identify objectives and formulate options
- Ability to effectively participate in Clinical User Group meetings and client presentations
- Proven ability to collaborate with Architects, Interior Designers, and Project Managers from Concept Design through Construction
- Help build and lead the medical planning practice for all healthcare projects within the studio
What you will need to succeed:
- 15+ years Medical Planning experience w/ demonstrated Leadership – complex healthcare projects of any scale
- Demonstrated excellence in design and innovation
- Exceptional client leadership and communication
- Experience in leading Healthcare projects from programming/concept design through construction administration
- Experience working in a collaborative environment with design teams, consultants, clients
- Skilled in leadership and management of user group engagements and development of deliverables
- Knowledge of current healthcare planning and programming concepts including patient safety and evidence-based design principles
- Understanding of programmatically rich healthcare projects from concept design and programming through construction administration
- Experience participating in client user group meetings and collaborating with all related deliverables
- Advanced knowledge with issues surrounding innovative healthcare strategic planning, master planning, programming, and design
- Familiarity with healthcare design literature and evidence-based design research
- Ability to work collaboratively with in-house team of medical planners and coordinate with external consultants
- Ability and interest to manage, design, document and execute small projects independently
- Exceptional listening, written, verbal and graphic communication skills required
- Proficient in Revit with 3D modeling skills preferred
- Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketchup, Rhino or 3DS Max desired
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $120,000 and $140,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.
This role requires the individual to be based in the United States.
Why choose NBBJ?
We believe that all NBBJ employees should love their work. This means not only loving what you do but having pride in your workplace. We strive to be that irresistible place to work by enhancing your employee experience with customized programs and comprehensive benefits. In addition to 100% covered employee healthcare costs and 401k contributions, we offer unique professional development opportunities, volunteer opportunities and access to leading technology and resources to further help you love your work and advance your career.
- NBBJ has been named three times by Fast Company as one of the most innovative architecture firms.
- Founded in 1943, our first office opened over 75 years ago in Seattle, Washington. We now have over 10 office locations around the globe.
- We are a transdisciplinary, cross-practice focused firm with a deep portfolio of Civic & Cultural, Commercial, Corporate, Healthcare, Higher Education, Science and Technology, Sports, and Urban Environment projects. We also have several areas of service expertise including: Architecture, Environmental Graphic Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, Workplace Consulting and more.
- In the past decade, NBBJ has received more than 300 awards from leading global, national and regional award programs across the business, real estate and design communities.
- We work with 5 of the top global high-tech companies, 14 of the U.S. News and World Report Top Hospitals, and 4 of the top 10 highest-ranked learning institutions.
- Our clients include institutional leaders such as Cambridge University, Google, Samsung, Cleveland Clinic, Tencent, and Stanford University.
