Posted: 22-Jan-26
Location: Charlotte, NC
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: DP, HLC CLT 2026
Little, a renowned design firm is seeking a Design Principal to champion design excellence and advance the vision of our Healthcare Practice. Located in our Charlotte office, this role will serve our Healthcare Studios and influence the quality, culture, and impact of our healthcare work.
Our mission is to collaborate with clients, patients, and care providers to shape hopeful, healing, and healthy environments. We view healthcare design as a calling, one that carries both privilege and responsibility. We are seeking a design leader who is deeply passionate about this work and motivated by the opportunity to impact lives through the built environment.
In our Healthcare Practice, the Design Principal plays a pivotal role in continually raising the bar on the quality and measurable impact of our work through positive leadership, a collaborative working style, and deep design expertise. As Design Principal, you will be the design leader who pushes our work further, shaping project and master planning for acute care, ambulatory and outpatient environments that perform brilliantly for patients, families, clinicians, and communities. You will mentor and develop the team in design methodology and process. You’re driven to improve the lives of those you serve and energized by the chance to translate complex clinical goals into clear design strategies and aspirational built outcomes. Partnering with a transdisciplinary team, you’ll listen intently, ask insightful questions, surface and frame the real challenges, generate and test ideas, and guide teams toward solutions that measurably advance your clients’ strategic and operational goals. We seek to truly integrate and become a multidisciplinary studio with Architecture and Interior Architecture, to blur the line of where architecture ends and interior design begins.
A candidate we’ll love:
- Design leadership. A talented designer and creative problem solver with deep experience designing projects across various market segments.
- Thought Leader. A Registered Architect with boundary pushing ideas, active involvement in industry-related organizations and/or recognition of award-winning designs
- Sustainable & Future-Thinker. Someone knowledgeable of and passionate about sustainable, agile and regenerative design
- Team Leader. A leader who is a champion for others and builds followership through empathetic listening, genuine care, and collaboration
- Great Communicator. Someone who can simplify complex ideas, articulate them in a way that people understand, in turn, is able to listen to understand.
- Active Mentor. A teacher/mentor who can lead design while working with and developing the talents of others
- Continuous Learner. An individual who has knowledge of the latest design trends, discourse, and technologies including working knowledge of the latest design software and techniques.
- Culture Builder. Someone who knows how to have fun, will be joyful to work with and who seeks positive meaningful impacts on others.
A position you’ll love:
- Elevating Performance. A rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful difference leading design in our Charlotte Office, partnering with our leaders, project teams and clients.
- Contributing to Strategic Growth. Reputable track record of building and sustaining relationships with client executives and developing and winning business opportunities
- Achieving Visibility. Exposure to thought leadership opportunities that uncover breakthrough ideas
- Enhancing Design Culture. The chance to help shape the evolution of design and discourse within our firm by collaborating with other designers across our entire firm footprint
- Collaborating Across Disciplines. An opportunity to collaborate within a diversely talented design firm with the support of diverse in-house resources.
Why Little:
Little is a place where you'll be surrounded by colleagues with diverse expertise, backgrounds, generations, talents, experiences, and passions. If you ask our employees what keeps them excited about coming to work each day, they'll tell you—it's the people. It’s also our culture and the opportunity to help shape a better future through our work. We embrace a culture of teaching and learning through cross-mentoring that spans generations, disciplines, and interests. We strive to give everyone exposure to the broadest possible range of experiences. We care deeply about our clients and each other, and we work to spark creativity and excitement in everyone around us. Curious what it’s like to work at Little? Check out our video! https://vimeo.com/851727160/a5897aa234
To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your letter of interest, resume, and portfolio to https://recruiting.ultipro.com/LIT1004LDAC/JobBoard/30702fd2-636e-4886-b1ce-4fc3b07e37ec/Opportunity/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=d992d74c-6eec-4ce4-9bde-7c86a999c713
At Little, we prioritize diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, Little prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Little is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact careers@littleonline.com or a member of our HR Team.