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Architecture, interiors, landscape & planning studio with offices in Seattle, New York City, and Chicago.
The Role
Support firm-wide public relations and communications: manage media requests, draft press releases and pitch decks, create and edit narrative content, track awards and submissions, and provide events and presentation logistics. Collaborate with PR partners, marketing team, and internal project teams to maintain media lists, digital archives, website and social content, and measure media placements.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 currently seeking a Senior Communications Coordinator to support the firm’s strategic public relations and communications efforts. The role will work in close collaboration with the firm’s Director of Public Relations & Communications, marketing team, and external PR partners to support media relations, content creation, awards and events.
The ideal candidate for this role is a proactive self-starter with strong writing and organizational skills, a global design perspective, and prior experience in the AEC industry (architecture, engineering, and construction). This role is well suited to someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can manage multiple priorities, and brings a clear interest in storytelling across media formats.
The selected candidate is expected to work regularly in our Seattle, Washington office.
Primary Responsibilities:
Public Relations
What can you expect from us?
Marketing team values: we are adaptable, ambitious, caring, collaborative, and dependable in how we approach our work and support one another.
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 and Opportunities Act (RCW 49.58.110), Olson Kundig provides transparent compensation information in all job postings. For this position based in Seattle, WA the annual salary is between $90,000 and $95,000. 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, health plan, 401k match, bonuses, profit-sharing plans for qualified positions, a monthly travel subsidy for public transportation, and more.
We are currently seeking a Senior Communications Coordinator to support the firm’s strategic public relations and communications efforts. The role will work in close collaboration with the firm’s Director of Public Relations & Communications, marketing team, and external PR partners to support media relations, content creation, awards and events.
The ideal candidate for this role is a proactive self-starter with strong writing and organizational skills, a global design perspective, and prior experience in the AEC industry (architecture, engineering, and construction). This role is well suited to someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can manage multiple priorities, and brings a clear interest in storytelling across media formats.
The selected candidate is expected to work regularly in our Seattle, Washington office.
Primary Responsibilities:
Public Relations
- Coordinate responses to media requests, including gathering project information, developing written and visual materials, liaising with internal teams and external PR partners, and managing timelines
- Draft press releases and media pitch decks for editorial submissions
- Prepare research and briefing materials for media interviews and engagements
- Track, report, and analyze media placements, including compiling summaries and key insights
- Maintain and update media contact lists and CRM
- Maintain physical and digital archives of publications featuring the firm’s work
- Assist in identifying new media opportunities, including project pitches and editorial planning
- Write and edit communications copy, including project descriptions, biographies, interview content, case studies, press releases, media pitch decks, and internal and external materials
- Coordinate with internal teams to gather and organize content inputs
- Maintain and organize the firm’s digital library of communications assets
- Update and manage content across online platforms, including the firm website and external project partners
- Generate written content for social media, website, and other communications channels
- Support the development of content for books, publications, exhibitions, video projects, internal communications, and other special initiatives
- Track award opportunities and deadlines; maintain submission calendars and gather required project assets
- Manage timelines and coordinate submission requirements, including drafting and editing award submission content
- Maintain records of submissions, results, and award recognition
- Provide planning and logistical support for events, lectures, juries, and presentations, including scheduling, coordination, and on-site execution as needed
- Assist with preparation of presentation materials, including decks, talking points, promotional materials, and supporting visuals
- Conduct research to identify new opportunities for lectures, juries, and speaking engagements
- Track and maintain calendars and records for events, lectures, juries, and speaking engagements
- Manage invitations, guest lists, and event communications
- Coordinate promotion of events and speaking engagements across communications channels
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, Journalism, English, or a related field
- Experience: 5-8 years of relevant experience in the AEC industry (architecture, engineering and construction)
- Digital Literacy:
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint),
- Intermediate proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), and web/social platforms (WordPress, Instagram, LinkedIn)
- Familiarity with media tracking tools and content management systems a plus
- Core Skills and Abilities
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills with close attention to detail
- Interest in architecture, design, and the built environment
- Self-driven, adaptable, and solutions-focused, with a strong sense of ownership and a growth mindset
- Dependable, with the ability to follow through across multiple priorities and timelines
- Genuine investment in the team and the work, with a collaborative and constructive approach
What can you expect from us?
Marketing team values: we are adaptable, ambitious, caring, collaborative, and dependable in how we approach our work and support one another.
- 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 and Opportunities Act (RCW 49.58.110), Olson Kundig provides transparent compensation information in all job postings. For this position based in Seattle, WA the annual salary is between $90,000 and $95,000. 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, health plan, 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
- 5-8 years relevant experience in the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) industry
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Intermediate proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Experience with WordPress and social platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn)
- Familiarity with media tracking tools and content management systems
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with ability to manage multiple projects
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills with close attention to detail
- Interest in architecture, design, and the built environment
- Self-driven, adaptable, solutions-focused with strong ownership and growth mindset
- Dependable with ability to follow through across multiple priorities and timelines
- Collaborative and constructive team approach
- Ability to work regularly in the Seattle, WA office
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The Company
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).
