Sustainable Design Leader | Hospitality
HKS
Architectural and Surveying Offices
San Diego, CA - USA
Manager / Team Leader
Experteer Overview
In this role you drive sustainability and integrative design across projects, guiding teams, and aligning with enterprise ESG goals. You’ll lead workshops, coordinate technical needs, and advance high-performance building outcomes while mentoring staff and promoting the firm’s mission. Your work shapes design quality, client impact, and regional initiatives, leveraging advanced modeling and research to deliver certified, sustainable projects. This is a strategically influential role at a design-forward firm.
Compensation / Benefits
- health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plans
- life & AD&D insurance
- short/long term disability
- paid time off (sick leave, vacation, parental leave)
Responsibilities
- Serve as the regional or practice lead for sustainability, acting as the go-to expert for content, leadership and project strategy
- Help define annual ESG objectives, key results and actions
- Lead integrative design processes and workshops, coordinating teams and research like Nature of Place
- Deliver projects that achieve third-party ratings through best practices and performance analysis
- Coordinate technical and analytic work with the Director of Integrated Energy Engineering and regional staff
- Manage project workload, prepare proposals, and support recruitment and staffing for DesignGreen
- Maintain client communication, present design concepts, and guide projects through to outcomes
- Identify and mitigate risks, facilitate team meetings, and ensure timely delivery
- Support offices in aligning ESG objectives with enterprise design and research goals
- Contribute to targeted research activities and data system usability feedback
- Travel as required
Key requirements
- Accredited professional degree in Architecture, Engineering, Sustainable Design or related field; advanced degree preferred
- Professional licensure in architecture or related field preferred
- Typically 8+ years of experience
- Sustainable design accreditation
- Experience with holistic integrative design delivery including charette facilitation and systems thinking
- Familiarity with design and energy modeling tools (Rhino, Grasshopper, Radiance, DIVA, REVIT, AutoCAD, Sketchup, IES VE, Sefaira, Insight360, Energy Plus, EnergyPro) preferred
- Graphic software proficiency (Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, InDesign) preferred
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite
- Experience with LEED, WELL, Living Building submissions and energy modeling
- Knowledge of high-performance standards (ANSI, ASHRAE, IESNA, ASTM) and energy codes (IECC, T24)
- Strong knowledge of building systems, QA/QC, codes, and research/application of technical documents
- Experience in logistics management and coordinating people/resources
- Strong presentation, organizational, and multi-project management skills
- Diplomatic, collaborative leadership and client relationship management
- Excellent written and verbal communication, problem-solving and teamwork abilities
- Travel flexibility
Description
In this role you drive sustainability and integrative design across projects, guiding teams, and aligning with enterprise ESG goals. You’ll …
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