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Project Director, Urban Design and Development

WSP USA Inc.
New York City, USA
Full-time
Director · 15+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 4 days ago
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Who You Are

  • Talent is the essence of meeting our clients’ objectives, goals, and challenges. This role suits a senior design leader who has built a practice and a public reputation around large, contested, publicly consequential projects, and who is ready to apply that to the breadth of capability WSP already holds.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, or a related field from an accredited program, or equivalent professional standing.
  • Minimum of 15 years of experience in urban design, master planning, and large-scale development, including a leadership role in a design or multidisciplinary professional practice.
  • 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.
  • Command of the public development process, including entitlement, zoning and rezoning, environmental review, community engagement, capital programming, and the relationship between public investment and private development value.
  • Established relationships with public agencies and authorities in the New York metropolitan region.
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams of engineers, planners, environmental specialists, landscape architects, and architects, in both prime and subconsultant positions.
  • Excellent verbal, written, graphic, and interpersonal communication skills, including in public and adversarial settings.
  • Capable, dedicated, and proven leader who is a self-starter and holds themselves accountable for delivery.
  • Ability to travel approximately 20 percent, primarily regional.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, or a related field from an accredited program, or equivalent professional standing.
  • 20+ years of experience in urban design, master planning, and large-scale development, including a leadership role in a design or multidisciplinary professional practice.
  • Recognized public profile in the urban design and planning community, evidenced by published writing, speaking, teaching, jury service, or board membership.
  • Experience with alternative delivery and public-private partnership procurements.
  • Experience across both public sector and private development client relationships.
  • WSP Benefits: WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
  • Compensation:
  • Expected Salary (all locations): $202,700 - $300,000
  • WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.
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  • WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

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