PROJECT DIRECTOR

As part of its development, AW², an internationally renowned architecture and interior architecture practice with offices in Paris, Montpellier and Geneva, is looking to recruit a Project Director to join its Paris office.

Reporting directly to the partners, his/her missions are as follows:

• Manage a major high-profile project encompassing a diverse range of programmes and building typologies (hospitality, residential, infrastructure, etc.). You may also be required to oversee additional projects within the team, should the main project be delayed or placed on hold.
• Responsible for the development and production of all the phases of the project: from briefing, needs analysis, clarification of objectives, design… to project completion, internal and external debriefings.
• In charge of estimating and managing resources and project contracts, planning, production and customer relations, in compliance with the guidelines established by the partners and the managing director.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Expertise Team) in accordance with the studio’s processes and guidelines.
• Manage and coordinate external consultants.
• In charge of a team of multiple people (project architects, assistant architects, interns), including recruitment, training an management.
• Design Team referent, in line with the partners’ design guidelines.
• Internal and external ambassador of the “AW² project”.

Profile/skills:

• Architect with extended experience in interior design. 15 years’ experience minimum in architectural firms, working on international high-end projects. Experience in hotels and upscale residential projects.
• Software: Revit, Autocad, Adobe suite
• Simultaneous supervision and management of multiple projects, on all phases of design, studies, development and construction
• Proven creative and conceptual skills
• Construction site experience desirable
• Direct and transversal team management
• Leading meetings and steering committees
• Customer relationship management
• Ability to adapt and flexibility
• Easy and efficient communication
• Sens of initiative
• Stress management
• Professional English
• Ability to travel according to the project needs

And values in line with those of AW² and its partners: respect, curiosity, passion for the project and the desire to surpass oneself for a growing agency.

Only candidates whose profile meets the needs of the agency will be contacted.

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