Digital Practice Specialist III - Perkins&Will : Job Details

At Perkins&Will, we take a human-centric approach to culture-building and placemaking: People are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in the power of design to enhance lives—to make the world a better, more beautiful place. Whether it's through a workplace, a building, or an entire city, we aim tocreate joyful experiences that strengthen the spirit of community. Each of us, including the digital practice specialist, has a critical role to play.

The Digital Practice Specialist III will be primarily focused on supporting a large, complex design-build healthcare project with the intent to grow into a broader office-wide Digital Practice role. This role is designed to cultivate digital practice leaders at Perkins&Will. From foundational support to strategic innovation, these roles drive project excellence, technological fluency, and firmwide transformation. This senior specialist role reports to and collaborates closely with the studio's Digital Practice Manager to advance digital innovation and continuous improvement across the studio while taking a strategic role in multiple projects. It requires expert-level proficiency in areas such as computational design, interoperability, automation, advanced customization, and project delivery, with an emphasis on driving impactful, next-generation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with and reports to the studio's Digital Practice Manager to drive innovation, evaluate emerging tools, and advise on digital transformation strategies.
• Provides high-level strategic consultation to project teams, particularly for complex or high-profile work requiring cutting-edge digital solutions and serves as an ongoing design team member.
• Partners with the firmwide Digital Practice group and the studio's Digital Practice Manager to develop and lead educational workshops and contribute to the implementation of firmwide technology initiatives.
• Designs, documents, and shares advanced digital workflows and best practices across the firm.
• Serves as a firmwide resource for advanced digital workflows, computational design, interoperability, automation, and data integration.
• Represents the studio and the firm in external engagements such as conferences and industry forums.
• Collaborate with the studio's Digital Practice Manager to oversee digital quality assurance across multiple projects, ensuring modeling standards, interoperability, and delivery benchmarks are met while proactively improving workflows and collaboration.
• Collaborates closely with Digital Practice Specialists I & II and studio digital innovators to foster a strong digital culture.
• Drives cultural adoption of digital best practices by inspiring curiosity, confidence, and technical fluency.

Education & Experience

• Minimum 7+ years of work experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field required.
• LEED GA within 6 months of hire.
• Professional accreditation in one area of Living Design that interests you (LEED AP with Specialty, BREEAM AP, WELL AP, SITES AP, CPHC/CPHD, or ILFI Living Future Accreditation), preferred.
• Active involvement in AXP or starting the ARE Process (preferred).

Proficiencies

• Strong leadership, mentorship, and team collaboration skills.
• Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking ability.
• Excellent communication skills (written, oral, and graphic), including the ability to present to internal and external audiences.
• Eagerness to lead, learn, and develop new design technologies and workflows.
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively with studio leadership.
• Knowledge of design-build project delivery preferred.

Software Proficiency

• Expert proficiency with Revit, BIM360/Autodesk Construction Cloud
• Rhino / Rhino.Inside
• Computational design & scripting (e.g., Grasshopper, Python, C#, Revit API)
• Analysis & simulation tools (e.g., Climate Studio, Ladybug Tools)
• Data tools (e.g., Excel, Power Query, R, Power BI)
• Visualization tools (e.g., Enscape, Lumion, Adobe CC)
• Other digital tools used in Perkins&Will's design technology suite

Qualified and interested candidates should submit a resume and work samples in PDF format. Include your resume and a compact, representative sample of your work (no larger than 6MB).

Compensation & Benefits

We foster a culture that is diverse and inclusive and strive for pay practices that are fair, competitive and reflect our commitment to pay equity. Our compensation decisions include but are not limited to a candidate's qualifications including skill sets, education, experience and training, licensure and certifications credentials if applicable, and business-related factors. This practice extends to all employees, including performance considerations for merit increases, job promotions, and transfer opportunities. We additionally review our pay practices, conduct pay equity audits, and ensure our managers are trained in our pay practices on an annual basis. At the time of posting this job advertisement, commensurate with qualifications, the annual salary range for this position is between $86,400 and $115,100, depending on location and experience. In addition, we provide a comprehensive benefits package for full time employees including, medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA accounts, 401k with employer match, PTO and paid holidays, short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, commuter benefits, life insurance, and learning and development opportunities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Perkins&Will has established and adopted an Equal Employment Opportunity Employment policy (“EEO”), which is part of the Company's Human Resources Policy. The purpose of this EEO policy is to ensure that all employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis, and without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. In some cases, local laws and regulations may provide greater protections than those outlined here and employees will be covered by the laws of their local jurisdiction.

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