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Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 57 locations across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, Gensler has built a team of 6,000 professionals who partner with clients in over 100 countries each year. Everything we do is guided by our mission: To create a better world through the power of design. We believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone. Gensler was named one of Forbes’ Best Large Employers in 2024, and our award-winning culture has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the Top 10 Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2024. Our people-first philosophy is centered on the core ideas of diversity empowerment, impact, community, respect, and growth. You can learn more about our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace at https://www.gensler.com/about/inclusion. A note on recruitment: Gensler will never reach out to prospective employees or vendors through social media or messaging apps. Please see our website for how to avoid recruitment fraud: https://www.gensler.com/recruitment-fraud-alert

SmithGroup is an award-winning, multi-national integrated design firm that employs research, data, advanced technologies and design thinking to help clients solve their greatest challenges. Working across 20 locations throughout the U.S., our network of 1,600 experts is committed to excellence in strategy, design and delivery. Across more than 20 design disciplines, we work collaboratively and creatively, sharing ideas and learning from one another. Our integrated design approach blends aesthetics with performance, sustainability, and resiliency to create a better tomorrow—for clients, employees, the community, the environment, and our collective future. Our unique culture and impact on the built environment have received recognition from top-ranking institutions, publications and design authorities the world over. In 2025 and 2026, we were named a Top Workplace in the United States by Energage and USA Today.

With our origins in Oregon, attention to craft and beauty is elemental to the ZGF culture. A deep respect for the built environment evolved from reverence for the surrounding natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest landscape and a commitment to stewardship of the natural environment. Rather than reflecting a signature style, our work is derived from the particulars of the climate, context, and the human experience. The instinct to build community, making places where people come together for a common purpose, is central to our work. Evolving from a single office with strong regional roots to a firm with seven offices across North America and 750+ staff, ZGF's national reputation was honored with the American Institute of Architects' Architecture Firm Award, recognizing the firm’s “high standards, humanistic concerns, and unique ability to capture the spirit of a place and the aspirations of its inhabitants.”