Careers Working at Legat: Where careers start and stay.
Your Opportunities Our Values
At Legat, we are committed to creating meaningful work that makes a difference. We value research-driven design, integrity, resourcefulness, lifelong learning, environmental stewardship, and compassionate relationships. Collectively, these facets unite people in modern spaces. As an employee-owned firm, we believe that everyone has the opportunity for professional development through a team environment and mentorship.
At Legat, we take care of our team by offering dental, medical, vision, life, and disability insurance. You’ll always have peace of mind.
Work-Life Balance
We value our people and their time with paid time off and paid holidays. We also offer a strong paid maternity/paternity leave policy so you can be there when it matters most.
Professional Development
We celebrate individual growth with licensure and certification support, as well as tuition reimbursement for professional courses.
Team Connection
The Legat culture is one of collaboration and camaraderie inside and outside the office. We offer firm-sponsored events, outings, and community service opportunities.
Employee-Owned
As an employee-owned organization, we ensure you’re covered with a 401k plan and benefits allowance, along with our profit-sharing plan.
Commute & Spending Perks
We understand the value of building rewarding career perks. Legat offers a flexible spending account and a transit benefit program.
Some of my peers at other firms are not given the opportunity to share their ideas. Their tasks are to address markups on reviewed drawings. Some of them don’t even get to see the projects they’ve worked on in person. From day one, Legat allowed me to find solutions to design problems and explain my ideas to stakeholders.
Randy Reyes, Associate, Legat Architects
About Legat Architects
Legat Architects, an architecture and interior design firm, works with building owners and communities to overcome facility challenges. Legat’s portfolio includes commercial, governmental, healthcare, education, transportation, and more facility types.
We celebrate a work culture that ensures every voice is heard and recognized.
Just
The Just Label, issued by the International Living Future Institute, is a measuring tool that helps us improve our policies for equitable work environments. View our scorecard.
DEI: One Legat and Many Identities
Every perspective and experience shape who we are as a team with diversity and inclusion.
Family Policies
A work family that cares for your home family. Our flexible policies include parental leave.
Reduced Energy Costs, Eco-Friendly Design
We are a seven-year signatory to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) 2030 Commitment, which aims to make carbon neutral a design standard by 2030.
Emerging Professionals
Legat was among the first six EP Friendly Firms recognized by AIA Illinois. We offer mentoring, licensure assistance, project diversity, and a place where each employee’s voice is heard.
Professional Development
Grow your roots with a company that encourages your professional advancement.
Giving Back
At Legat, we recognize architecture is bigger than just design—it’s about community service.
Give Back Architecture Club
Since 2010, the Architecture Club at Mariano Azuela Elementary School in Chicago’s South Side has given students the opportunity to learn about design through hands-on activities. Led by Legat’s Tom Kikta, the after-school program continues to inspire future generations of architects, engineers, and designers.
Give Back For Brighter Futures
At Legat, we put our promise to uplift communities into practice. Examples include decorating holiday trees for a children’s hospital, packaging food at pantries, and hosting ShareFest events featuring auctions of staff-created artwork to raise funds for a community center and a food bank.
Give Back Safe Spaces
Our commitment to helping those in need includes creating safe spaces in under-resourced communities. Our team has supported organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, and Beacon Place community center.
Just: Employee and Community Well-Being
Legat earned the Just label from the International Living Future Institute. The voluntary awareness tool allows us to measure our progress on certain social justice indicators. It encourages us to create equitable and rewarding work environments and support our communities.
The Just tool inspired the creation of Legat’s Wellness Committee, which completed a firmwide health assessment and employee wellness survey. The resulting wellness program has included a logo design competition, employee challenges, and a monthly wellness newsletter.
