Description
We are seeking a senior design leader for our Transportation practice in New York. As Project Director, Urban Design and Development, you will play a key role in shaping the direction, growth, and market position of our practice. You will lead and grow our Transportation work on projects that reshape how American cities build and integrate their infrastructure, bringing a strong design sensibility to the practice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide design leadership, team leadership, and client relationship management for large-scale urban development and infrastructure projects
- Develop a strong project vision that wins client, community, and funding support, drawing on WSP's multidisciplinary capabilities
- Assemble and direct internal teams and external consultant teams
- Identify, shape, and win urban development and infrastructure programs in the Northeast and nationally
- Open and sustain relationships with public agencies, authorities, institutions, and private developers
- Set design goals and design direction at project outset, and hold design review authority at agreed milestones
- Lead client presentations, public meetings, and stakeholder engagement on projects
- Work with project managers on scope, budget, schedule, and deliverables
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, or a related field
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in urban design, master planning, and large-scale development
- Registration as an architect, AICP certification, or an equivalent professional credential
- Demonstrated record of originating work, including client relationships that have produced repeat commissions at scale
- Direct experience leading master plans and development frameworks for major transportation facilities, station districts, waterfront and resilience districts, or large publicly initiated redevelopment sites
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, or a related field
- 20+ years of experience in urban design, master planning, and large-scale development
- Recognized public profile in the urban design and planning community
- Experience with alternative delivery and public-private partnership procurements
Benefits:
- Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- Retirement savings
- Paid sick leave, paid vacation, paid parental leave, and paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings