Senior Urban Designer and Project Manager
At Gehl we're looking for a Senior Urban Designer and Project Manager to join our team.
Full-time · San Fransisco
Gehl is seeking candidates for a full time Senior Urban Designer and Project Manager position in our San Francisco office. Qualified applicants are urban designers with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience and 3 years of project management experience in complex urban design projects. The core of this role is leading successful teams to deliver spatial strategies and urban design projects in a variety of scales and typologies.
As an interdisciplinary firm that works across design, policy, strategy, and research, we seek candidates who have demonstrated interest and experience developing projects that span across disciplines and scales.
A successful candidate will be a dynamic leader with strong written and verbal communication. They will be comfortable managing interdisciplinary design teams, including landscape and civil partners. They will shape and manage the research and design process and conceptualize and produce deliverables in collaboration with the project director and design team. Candidates will have experience bringing urban design through concept and schematic design. Experience with review of detail design and construction drawing sets is a benefit, but not a requirement.
A minimum of 5 years of professional experience and 3 years of project management experience in complex urban design projects (preparing work plans, managing budgets, guiding teams).
Experience taking concepts through schematic and design development is a plus.
Strong communication, collaboration, and coordination skills in a professional environment.
Comfort, confidence, and poise in communicating with clients.
Proficient command of digital design and storytelling tools to express insights crisply, including Google Slides, with an aptitude and excitement for learning new digital tools.
Ability to articulate purpose and intention for the work you do.
Passion for contemporary design culture and strong knowledge of global landscape and urban design and architectural precedents and best practices.
Proficiency with qualitative and quantitative research methods and ability to define the right questions.
Ability to develop sophisticated spatial and social analyses at the site, city, and systems scale.
Gehl is a global company. Applicants with proficiency in Spanish, Chinese, and languages in addition to English are encouraged to apply.
A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for a project manager role at Gehl is $98,000 - $133,000. Candidates with additional experience will be considered.
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
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’.