DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.
We have an opening for a Writer & Content Specialist. DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home. Live somewhere other than the listed location? DLR Group has a network of 30+ studios across the United States. For this role, we encourage exceptional applicants across the ecosystem.
About the Marketing Sector at DLR Group
At DLR Group, the Marketing team provides strategic support for pursuing new opportunities and developing marketing materials. By leveraging a deep understanding of market trends and client needs, the team highlights the firm’s expertise and resonates with prospective clients.
Position Summary
In this role, you will interview design professionals and project leaders to uncover the story behind each project, transforming those insights into compelling, accurate project narratives and associated content that articulates design intent, process, and impact. Your writing will support marketing, mergers & acquisitions integration, award submissions, and publication efforts across the firm.
What you will do:
- Manage M&A project migration, focusing on project narrative and visual asset conversion
- Conduct structured interviews with project teams to gather detailed, differentiated information about goals, challenges, solutions, and outcomes.
- Write clear, engaging project narratives that align with the firm’s brand voice.
- Translate technical concepts into accessible, human-centered storytelling.
- Ensure consistency and quality across all content; edit and proofread for accuracy, clarity, and alignment with firm copy standards.
- Prepare standardized narratives and visual assets for inclusion in the firm’s asset management system.
- Collaborate with marketing, digital, and design teams to refine messaging and understand linkage to broader business goals.
- Lead additional writing projects, including web content, executive summaries, case studies, and thought leadership coverage.
- Occasionally review content drafted by others, editing for brand voice and copy standards.
- Record discovered project and people information in firm’s database to ensure institutional knowledge.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, English, or related field.
- 5+ years of professional writing experience, including journalism, B2B content marketing, or related focuses, preferably with a focus in architecture, engineering, interior design, or related creative industries.
- Strong interviewing, listening, and synthesis skills.
- Proven ability to write about complex design and technical topics with clarity, creativity, and narrative flow.
- Excellent grammar, editing, and storytelling instincts.
- Capacity to autonomously and asynchronously manage workflow and deadlines
Preferred Experience And Skills:
- Comfortable working within a large, multidisciplinary organization
- Familiarity with AEC terminology and project delivery processes.
- Proven results in leveraging AI tools to speed the writing process without sacrificing quality and differentiated outcomes.
Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested hourly rate for this position is:
DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.
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