Senior Strategist
Gehl is looking for an Senior Strategist to join our Urban Activation team.
Application deadline February 28, 2025
Full-time
San Francisco (preferably) or New York City
Gehl helps private sector clients contribute to building thriving cities using a people-centered approach. We use our relationships with the public sector and understanding of human behavior to help companies “do well by doing good” and find the win-win through investing in the public realm. This position sits within a team of Gehl staff embedded within a large technology company’s Urban Activation program. Known for pushing the boundaries of what exceptional workplaces can be, this program is designed to help design, deliver and operate public spaces as part of this company’s campus development projects globally.
Gehl is seeking candidates for a full-time Senior Strategist position in our San Francisco or New York office. You will be embedded within the Urban Activation team, managing projects that span site design and programming, strategic program development, data analytics and reporting, and emergent site-specific deliverables.
As an example of one of your projects, you might manage the data collection process on project sites, process and conceptualize data visualization, and manage production of visually compelling deliverables that translate user experience and site research into urban design, retail, and public art strategies that support the business objectives of a private sector client in direct collaboration with the client and design team.
You should be comfortable independently managing multiple workstreams at a time that are responsive to client needs. Depending on the workstream, work planning and deliverables can range from being primarily self-driven to working in active collaboration with project stakeholders and collaborators.
4+ years of design and strategy experience, in a design or consulting environment, with responsibility for shaping processes and work products and supporting project management.
Urban design, planning, architectural and/or human centered design background.
A thorough understanding of standard graphic design tools, primarily Google Slides and Adobe Suite
Familiarity with data analysis tools, such as Excel or Tableau
Familiarity with graphic design, including balanced layouts, typography, and an expressive use of digital illustration
Strong English written and verbal communication skills
Beneficial, but not required:
Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, geo-spatial tools like ArcGIS and Replica, and 3D modeling experience is a benefit, but not a requirement.
Familiarity with the real estate, property management, and development sector, with a focus on creating great indoor and outdoor public spaces.
Proficiency in creating succinct communications for an executive audience.
Experience working with private sector corporate clients.
Candidates should demonstrate strong visual communication skills and ability to communicate ideas and concepts through clear diagrams and data visualization woven cohesively into a compelling narrative. Candidates with interest in interdisciplinary practice, and who recognize the contribution of social science, sociology, psychology, and other areas of urban design, will likely find added value in this role and at Gehl.
A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for a Senior Strategist role at Gehl is $98,000 - $133,000.
As a team member at Gehl, you will enjoy:
4 weeks of vacation leave plus 15 days of paid sick leave yearly
11 paid company holidays
Comprehensive medical, dental, life and vision coverage including optional Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
Generous maternity/paternity leave policy
Company matching option towards 401k plan
Yearly stipend for continuing education and career development
We are a small, global company of diverse nationalities and life experiences, each of us dedicated to making “cities for people”. We share a commitment to our craft as designers, storytellers and world changers. Working in an important but specialized capacity with leaders from around the world, we choose our collaborations carefully to maximize our impact and push the envelope of our practice. We usually work in small project teams of 3-6 people, often spanning several time zones. You will find few organizations like Gehl, and few of our size as influential on the practice of citymaking.
Please have a look at our website for the kinds of projects we do for the public sector.
Do you want to join our team? Then we'd love to hear about you!
To apply, please upload your CV and portfolio or selected works and share in 200 words or less why you want to work at Gehl. We receive a lot of applications, so the best way to stand out is to show your best work in your portfolio. We prefer to receive an optimized PDF upload for your portfolio. If you have a portfolio website instead, you must include that URL in the "website" question of the application and upload a document with a link and password, if any, to your online portfolio.
Your application should highlight your interest in urbanism landscape and architectural design, impacting positive change through the built environment, and experience and proficiency with design software and graphic visualization (such as Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino, website design, video editing, and other communication software), research, analysis, writing, sketching, working collaboratively, and strategic thinking and storytelling.
Applicants for this position must demonstrate they have authorization to work legally in the United States, and be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
Our mission is making cities for people, inclusively. We are committed to building a diverse team and encourage candidates from under-represented communities to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Gehl focuses on the relationship between the built environment and people’s quality of life. With studios in Copenhagen, New York and San Francisco, we create ‘cities for people’.