In 1998-2004 Ilya Zalivukhin worked as a chief architect and director in representative offices of foreign architectural companies in Moscow. Today he is the leader of Яузапроект (Jauzaproject), a company providing architectural and urban development services which he founded in 2004.
Since 2014 he has been a member of the Public Chamber in Moscow Oblast, the Vice-President of the Union of Moscow architects and a member of the Board of the Union of Architects of Russia, the Russian Architectural and Construction Association Board.