HUSH
Freelance Architectural Designer
Brooklyn, NY · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2442 days ago
Adobe Creative SuiteCommunicationCollaborationPublic Speaking
About the role
- You are the creative force that shapes how our spaces look, feel, and resonate-translating brand narratives and human stories into spatial and experiential language.
- You work across project types and scales, contributing to concept development, mood and aesthetic direction, and the visual logic that guides how a project comes to life.
- Focus: 80% making and execution; 20% learning and concepting
Responsibilities
- Develop mood boards, visual narratives, and inspiration frameworks that guide the creative direction of spaces.
- Articulate design ideas clearly and compellingly in both visual and verbal form.
- You collaborate closely with designers, technologists, and strategists to ensure every environment we create leaves a lasting impression.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in architecture, fine arts, interior design, or equivalent work experience-formal architectural training is appreciated but not required.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills-you are as comfortable in a concept conversation as you are presenting work to a client.
- You are a spatial thinker with an artist's sensibility.
- You are conceptually driven, aesthetically sharp, and more interested in the emotional texture of space than the technical mechanics of construction.
- You have a portfolio that reflects genuine creative range, a strong point of view, and a hunger to push what the built environment can be.
Skills
- sketching, mood-making, spatial storytelling.
- Proficiency in tools such as Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, or similar.
- 3D rendering, AI rendering.
- Genuine curiosity for art, culture, technology, and sensorial experience.
Compensation
- Bi-annual meetings to review progress across core responsibilities, professional, and personal goals.
Benefits
- 80% making and execution; 20% learning and concepting
- Collaborate with designers, technologists and fabricators to translate conceptual vision into realized work.
Company info
- We are a team of Proactive, Respectful, Communicative, Candid, Diverse, Equitable and Curious leaders seeking new team members who share our values. We are world-class experience designers, technologists, strategic thinkers and creators assembled to develop global design projects for adventurous, industry-changing Fortune 500 companies and leading organizations.
- Who you are:
- You are a spatial thinker with an artist's sensibility. You understand that architecture is not just about buildings-it's about the way people feel, move, and find meaning in the spaces around them. You work fluidly across scales: from a human-scale sculpture and installation to a building façade or master plan. You are conceptually driven, aesthetically sharp, and more interested in the emotional texture of space than the technical mechanics of construction. You have a portfolio that reflects genuine creative range, a strong point of view, and a hunger to push what the built environment can be.
- We are a team of Proactive, Respectful, Communicative, Candid, Diverse, Equitable and Curious leaders seeking new team members who share our values.
- We are world-class experience designers, technologists, strategic thinkers and creators assembled to develop global design projects for adventurous, industry-changing Fortune 500 companies and leading organizations.
- You understand that architecture is not just about buildings-it's about the way people feel, move, and find meaning in the spaces around them.
- You work fluidly across scales: from a human-scale sculpture and installation to a building façade or master plan.
- Role Overview
- As a HUSH Architectural Designer, you bring a design sensibility rooted in art, culture, and human experience.
- Contribute to spatial concept development-from big ideas to the refined aesthetic details that define a project's character.
- Shape the experiential arc of a space-how people enter, move through, pause, and feel in an environment.
- Journeys, mapping, narratives.
- Contribute to pitch development with strong visual storytelling and spatial thinking.
- Seek and embrace feedback.
- Iterate with intention.
- Evolve the idea without losing the soul of it.
- Bi-annual meetings to review progress across core responsibilities, professional, and personal goals.
- Requirements
- 2-4+ years of design experience in architecture, experience design, spatial design, or a related creative field.
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