Senior Project Designer (Healthcare)

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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Senior Project Designer – Healthcare Focus | San Francisco Studio

At HDR, we design environments that support healing, advance medical innovation, and improve lives. As a Senior Project Designer in our San Francisco architecture studio, you’ll be part of a collaborative team shaping the future of healthcare — creating patient-centered spaces, advanced clinical facilities, and transformative campuses that redefine how care is delivered.

Our San Francisco team is at the forefront of healthcare design, with recent projects that include:

• A new academic medical center integrating teaching, research, and advanced patient care in one cohesive campus.

• Next-generation outpatient and specialty care centers designed to improve access, experience, and outcomes.

• Major hospital renovations and replacements that modernize aging infrastructure while elevating patient experience.

• Behavioral health and wellness environments that bring dignity, safety, and therapeutic design principles to care spaces.

What You’ll Do:

• Take a leading role in designing innovative healthcare environments, collaborating with the Design Principal and multidisciplinary teams from concept through construction.

• Explore and develop creative design solutions that balance aesthetics, functionality, and healing-centered principles.

• Create presentation materials and actively participate in client meetings, internal critiques, and agency reviews to gain project approvals.

• Ensure design solutions align with code, cost, and clinical requirements, supporting operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.

• Coordinate design efforts with architects, engineers, planners, and healthcare specialists throughout all phases of the project.

• Facilitate design workshops and charrettes, integrating user feedback and clinical workflows into the design process.

• Oversee and guide the design team’s work, ensuring deliverables meet high standards and deadlines.

• Review architectural documents to identify and resolve design and interdisciplinary conflicts.

• Contribute to specifications and documentation to maintain design intent through construction.

• Support construction administration activities, ensuring that the built environment reflects the original design vision.

• Mentor junior designers and help shape the creative culture of our healthcare design practice.

• Perform other duties as needed.

What We’re Looking For:

• Master’s degree in Architecture (or equivalent experience).

• Registered Architect preferred.

• Evidence of a good design understanding e.g. a good design portfolio

• Proven experience designing healthcare facilities — hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics, or medical research environments.

• Interest or experience in evidence-based and sustainable design (LEED experience strongly preferred).

• Proficiency in design and visualization tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino, Enscape, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Lumion, SketchUp, and 3ds Max.

What We Believe
HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment
As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.