Healthcare Project Designer

Join the firm AIA calls “a trailblazer in sustainable, high-performance architecture.” Winner of the AIA 2025 Firm Award, we’re an integrated collective of designers and researchers united in a mission to eliminate carbon emissions and build a more equitable, livable future.

LPA is seeking a passionate Healthcare Project Designer to join our integrated team of architects, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects, master planners, and researchers in our Healthcare practice. As a member of our Healthcare team, you will impact a broad variety of innovative, futuristic, local, sustainable, and high performing projects including cancer centers, outpatient facilities, ground up hospital campuses, medical office buildings, Behavioral Health, and more.

We walk the talk in changing lives by design. Our sustainability commitment is real, we are the only large firm in the nation to comply with the AIA 2030 Challenge for the past two years running. Our award-winning projects aim to have a positive and enduring environmental, economic and social impact.

As a Healthcare Practice, we work hard, have fun and we experiment. Egos are ‘checked at the door’; we expect ideas to come from everyone in our organization - the best ideas are ones developed.

We’re committed to diversity, wellness and work-life balance and it is neatly summarized in our Just label. We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits, including health and dental insurance, retirement and financial, wellness and other work/life balance plans.

What you will do:

• Lead ideation with client and project teams

• Engage all disciplines and stakeholders from the earliest stages to develop conceptual and schematic design of assigned projects using an informed process.

• Facilitate presentation of design and other project documents to client for review and approval, with other project team members.

• Preside at design meetings, presentations and activities specific to assigned project

• Participate in firmwide design charrettes

• Engage all disciplines and stakeholders from the earliest stages to develop conceptual and schematic design of assigned projects using an informed process

• You will be working on cancer centers, outpatient facilities, ground up hospital campuses, medical office buildings, Behavioral Health and Wellness Centers, etc.

• Cultivate and maintain excellent interpersonal relationships with clients, builders, governing authorities, stakeholders and team members.

• Work in unison with the Managing Director, Design Director and Project Manager to lead the project design and develop innovative design solutions

• Mentor design team and communicate with Project Designers, Project Leaders and Principals to ensure LPA’s design standards and processes are fully understood and brought to fruition.

What we will do:

• Provide mentorship from Managing Directors and Design Directors as well as other in-house disciplines on all projects

• Provide career growth opportunities including professional development grants and our professional development process

• In-house management and leadership training opportunities

• Education opportunities including LPA+U and LPA Tech Talks plus few external learning opportunities.

• Provide study grants for exploration – Catapult, LPA Foundation, others.

Healthcare Project Manager Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture or Interior Design

• 10+ years of experience in all phases of interior Healthcare Inpatient and Outpatient Projects.

• Certified Interior Designer or Licensed Architect

• Proficiency in Revit. Experience with Rhino preferred.

• Knowledge in management of project business: scope, fee, schedule, work plans, resource management, and budget

• In-depth knowledge of HCAI/ OSHPD regulations and compliance requirements.

• Oversee QA/QC processes to ensure construction meets HCAI/ OSHPD and other AHJ standards.

• Strong Organization and multitasking abilities

• Manage risk and implement mitigation strategies

LPA is an integrated design firm with offices in California and Texas. We specialize in creating innovative, sustainable environments that work better, do more with less and improve people’s lives. We provide a vibrant and rewarding work environment—one that values and fosters creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, community engagement and ongoing career development and growth. LPA is also committed to diversity, wellness and work-life balance. LPA offers competitive salaries and generous benefits, including health and dental insurance, retirement and financial, wellness and other work/life plans.

The salary range for this position is $98,000 - $150,000 and is eligible for an annual bonus. If you are hired at LPA, your base salary is based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, experience and/or project complexity. We believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.

NOTICE TO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES AND RECRUITERS:

Please note that LPA does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed contract, LPA will not agree to pay any recruiter fee. In the situation an agency or recruiter submits a candidate or resume without a previously signed agreement and/or without LPA’s request, LPA explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of LPA.