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# Design Architect

- **Company:** Johnston Design Group LLC
- **Location:** Greenville, SC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $77,900.0 - $93,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Autodesk Revit, Data Visualization, SketchUp (3D Modeling Software), Documentation System
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1c80bbf735305e82

## About the Role

Licensed architect in any U.S. jurisdiction, with the ability to obtain South Carolina registration (NCARB Certificate a plus)

 - 8+ years of professional experience in architecture, with a portfolio that shows real design leadership

 - Demonstrated design experience in urban mixed-use and multifamily projects

 - A genuine commitment to sustainable and restorative design, paired with a practical, business-minded approach to implementing it on real budgets and schedules

 - Strong collaboration skills: you give and receive critique well, build trust quickly, and can lead design without needing to own every decision

 - Clear, confident communication - in sketches, in models, in writing, and in the room with clients

 - Working fluency in current design and documentation tools (we use Revit and SketchUp, plus a growing set of AI rendering and visualization tools)

 - Reliable availability Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Preferred

 - Master of Architecture or related graduate degree

 - Custom residential design experience

 - LEED AP, Passive House, WELL, Living Building Challenge, or similar credentials

 - Experience presenting to municipal design review boards or planning commissions

 - Curiosity about AI-assisted design workflows

## Description

This is a design leadership role built for collaboration. As Design Architect, you'll partner with our project architects and project managers during the design phases of multiple projects at once - shaping concepts, sharpening schematic and design development work, and making sure each project carries a clear, place-based idea all the way into documents. Alongside that studio-wide design role, you'll carry a small load of your own projects as full project architect, from first sketch through construction.

You'll be the person who raises the design bar across the studio without taking the pencil out of anyone's hand. That takes as much listening, mentoring, and diplomacy as it does design talent.

What you'll do

 - Lead and contribute to design on several concurrent projects, working side by side with the project architect and project manager on each

 - Develop site-responsive concepts and carry them through schematic design and design development, with an eye on how they'll be built and what they'll cost

 - Lead design on urban mixed-use and multifamily work - massing, unit planning, ground-floor activation, and how a building meets the street and the neighborhood

 - Bring restorative design strategies to every project - daylight, passive performance, material health, water, and habitat - and frame them for clients in terms of cost, benefit, and long-term value

 - Run design reviews and charrettes that build consensus rather than override it

 - Present design work to clients, owners, developers, and city design review boards

 - Coordinate with our interior design studio and with consultants so architecture and interiors develop as one idea

 - Serve as full project architect on a small number of your own projects, including documents and construction-phase services

 - Help shape JDG's design standards and our growing use of AI-assisted design and visualization tools