Olson Kundig is a design practice founded on the ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture, and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. The firm’s work can be found across the globe, with projects as wide-ranging as huts to high rises, homes - often for art collectors - to academic, cultural, and civic projects, museums and exhibition design, places of worship, creative production, urban design, and interior design.
We are seeking a Marketing Manager, Communications who will lead the firm's communications function. This role partners closely with marketing leadership and external PR partners to execute a comprehensive communications strategy across media relations, content, digital platforms, visual media, awards, and events.
The selected candidate must be based in either Seattle or New York and is expected to work regularly from the office in one of those locations. Limited travel may be required.
Primary Responsibilities:
Lead and manage a team of Marketing Coordinators and Specialists across communications, digital, visual media, and editorial
Oversee communications strategy execution across media relations, digital platforms, awards, and events
Manage workflow, assign work, and balance team capacity to ensure timely, high-quality delivery
Serve as a primary point of escalation for team and project-related issues
Manage communications planning calendar and align priorities across internal teams
Oversee development of press materials, media outreach, and PR partner relationships
Guide content creation across publications, presentations, website, and social media
Lead photography and video documentation efforts
Manage awards submissions and track results
Oversee execution of events, lectures, and presentations
Track communications budgets and reporting
Lead special projects such as books and exhibitions
Qualifications
Must Have:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, Journalism, English, or a related field
- Experience: 8–10 years of relevant experience within the AEC industry; experience managing teams and communications programs; strong organizational, writing, and storytelling skills
- Digital Literacy: Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, Instagram, LinkedIn
- Strong
Nice to Have:
- Interest in architecture, design, and the built environment
- Experience in visual storytelling, photography, or editorial content
- Experience developing team members & fostering collaboration
- Experience in creative or design environments
What You Can Expect
- A creative work environment and colleagues who are collaborative, creative, and challenging
- Opportunity to grow professionally
- Check our culture page to learn about life at Olson Kundig
Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency
Olson Kundig is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, gender, age, religion, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. Applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations at any point in the employment process.
In compliance with Washington State's Equal Pay & Opportunities Act (RCW 49.58.110), Olson Kundig provides transparent compensation information in all job postings. For this position based in Seattle, Washington, the annual salary is between $130,000 and $155,000. Final salary decisions are made based upon the extent and relevance of the candidate's experience, as well as internal equity and external market factors.
In addition to a dynamic and creative culture, Olson Kundig provides a generous benefits package that includes 16 days of paid time off, paid holidays, a health plan, a 401k match, bonuses, profit-sharing plans for qualified positions, a monthly travel subsidy for public transportation, and more.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, Journalism, English, or related field
- 8-10 years relevant experience within the AEC industry
- Experience managing teams and communications programs
- Strong organizational, writing, and storytelling skills
- Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, Instagram, LinkedIn
- Ability to work regularly in-office in Seattle, WA
- Interest in architecture, design, and the built environment
- Experience in visual storytelling, photography, or editorial content
- Experience developing team members and fostering collaboration
- Experience in creative or design environments
What We Do
Now in its sixth decade of practice, Olson Kundig is a collaborative design practice led by 13 principal/owners whose work includes cultural and museum projects, exhibition design, commercial and mixed-use design (including wineries and sports facilities), private and multi-family residential, hospitality projects, places of worship, interior design, product design and landscape design. With deep roots in the Pacific Northwest, the firm and its team of over 350 work with clients around the world. The firm began its creative existence in 1966 with the architect Jim Olson, whose work at that time centered on explorations of the relationship between dwellings and the landscapes in which they inhabit. Olson started the firm based on the essential ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture, histories, and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. Among the firm’s accolades are the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects), national and regional design awards from the American Institute of Architects, Jim Olson’s 2007 Seattle Medal of Honor and Tom Kundig’s National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt and his Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Books on the firm’s work include Tom Kundig: Working Title (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020); Jim Olson: Building • Nature • Art (Thames & Hudson, 2018); Tom Kundig: Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015); Jim Olson: Art and Architecture (August Editions, 2013); Tom Kundig: Houses 2 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011); Jim Olson Houses (The Monacelli Press, 2009); and Tom Kundig: Houses (Princeton Architectural Press, originally published in 2006 and re-released in 2021).
