People First
Our firm recognizes that different backgrounds and vantage points can enrich our work and our relationships with clients beyond what conventional skills alone can accomplish. We’re committed to making HKS – and the design industry as a whole – more reflective of our clients and the communities we serve.
As a firm, we must look like our communities and clients in order to provide them with the best design solutions.
Our Benefits
Flexible Work
We empower you to excel at your job while making room for your personal life. Our firm offers opportunities to log in from home in addition to working from the office.
Time Off
When you work hard, you need time to recharge. We want you to go on that getaway or hit the pause button to take care of your family using our paid time-off options.
Professional Growth
We lead with knowledge. HKS supports your career development with continuing education programs and allowances for licenses, certifications and professional memberships.
Health and Well-being
Your physical and mental well-being are important to us. Our benefits package includes comprehensive medical coverage and other resources for you to manage your health.
Family Care
Parents, we’re here for you. Whether you’re welcoming a child through birth or adoption, paid parental leave is available to eligible employees.
Festive Culture
We love to celebrate milestones, yours and ours. HKS hosts a flurry of parties and events throughout the year to recognize our employees and to treat our friends and families.
Citizen HKS
Citizen HKS is our firm’s public interest design program — a global platform for socially responsible engagement. Through Citizen HKS, we focus on improving lives and communities by leveraging design, volunteer service and financial philanthropy to help lift communities in need. We create, connect and contribute to envision a better world.
Globally Connected
With several “best of” employer distinctions from Forbes, Fast Company and Human Rights Campaign, HKS offers a flexible work environment designed to support our teams. Our focus on innovation and Environmental, Social and Governance enables designers to collaborate across geographies and boundaries as they generate solutions that strengthen communities worldwide.
Fellowships
We want our employees to be limitless thinkers, so we leave room outside of project work for our emerging talent to mine their curiosity. Our regional and firmwide design fellowships team up young professionals with our design and research leaders, offering them mentorship and freedom to explore their ideas. HKS, a worldwide leader in health care design, is also home to one of the industry’s most prestigious health design fellowships, offered to recent graduates committed to improving the experiences of patients and health care workers.
Mentors from across HKS and our partner organizations empower designers to solve design problems and generate solutions for our ever-changing world.
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