- Coordinate incoming and outgoing packages, shipping, and courier services with efficiency and care.
- Maintain a welcoming environment for staff, clients, and visitors.
- Maintain the visual and functional quality of reception areas, conference rooms, kitchens, and shared spaces.
- Oversee kitchen organization, ensuring spaces are clean, stocked, and aligned with the studio’s standards of excellence.
- Empty the dishwashers and maintain the refrigerators clean and organized.
- Help manage and maintain the studio’s working spaces so they remain organized and tidy.
- Coordinate internal meetings, studio events, and social gatherings that foster collaboration and community.
- Organize Lunch & Learns with industry partners.
- Assist with event planning and hosting.
- Manage ordering of office supplies, groceries, and studio essentials with attention to quality and sustainability.
- Process expense reimbursements.
- Serve as a liaison to building management, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.
- A passion for organization and clean spaces.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Exceptional attention to detail and time management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- The ability to take initiative, work independently, and anticipate needs.
- A flexible, service-oriented approach with a positive, professional presence.
- A genuine interest in supporting a design-driven, purpose-led practice.
Salary Range Information
We foster a culture that is diverse and inclusive and strive for pay practices that are fair, and competitive and reflect our commitment to pay equity. Our compensation decisions include but are not limited to a candidate’s qualifications including skill sets, education, experience and training, licensure and certifications credentials if applicable, and business-related factors. This practice extends to all employees, including performance considerations for merit increases, job promotions, and transfer opportunities. We additionally review our pay practices, conduct pay equity audits, and ensure our managers are trained in our pay practices on an annual basis. At the time of posting this job advertisement, the annual pay salary range for this position in DC is between $63,000 and $70,000.
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Skills Required
- Strong communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work independently
- Customer service orientation
Perkins&Will Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Perkins&Will and has not been reviewed or approved by Perkins&Will.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Inclusive health benefits extend to same-sex spouses and domestic partners and include coverage for gender confirmation surgery, reinforced by repeated external recognition for LGBTQ equality.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans dental, vision, disability, life, and medical insurance, alongside FSA options and related support programs that broaden access to care.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with employer matching and is complemented by performance bonuses that add to total rewards.
Perkins&Will Insights
What We Do
Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. That’s why clients and community members on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about Living Design, a philosophy that guides our work and emphasizes poetics and beauty; conceptual clarity; research and innovation; technology and tectonics; community and inclusion; resilience and regeneration; and health and well-being. Our team of over 2,500 professionals in 30 studios worldwide provides interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, landscape architecture, and more. Our partners include Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects; Portland; Nelson\Nygaard; and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR). We’re also part of the Sidara Collaborative, a global network of leading designers, engineers, planners, and consultants.
