Location: New York City, NY or Miami, FL

Urban Designer

Salary: $60,000-70,000 /yr

Description
Founded in 2009, Street Plans is an award-winning urban planning, design, and research-advocacy firm with offices in Atlanta, New York, Pittsburgh, South Florida, and the San Francisco Bay Area. We partner with a range of public, private, nonprofit, and foundation clients to advance human-centered transportation, public realm, and urban design projects that create more inclusive and resilient communities. We are a passionate team of architects, planners, and urban designers known globally as the leaders of the Tactical Urbanism movement.

Successful Candidate
The successful candidate will provide planning, design, implementation, and analysis support for a variety of projects. The candidate will need to collaborate closely with Street Plans Principals and Project Managers, as well as external partners and clients, to deliver designs that meet both the project’s goals and the firm’s standards.

Duties

• Production and development of design throughout the project’s lifecycle, from the conceptual phase to implementation to post-production
• Support project management in coordination with clients, project partners, and design team
• Develop drawings that meet project deliverables
• Conduct research and perform analysis of project sites and land use codes/policy
• Read/understand civil engineering drawings
• Lead graphic design layouts of project reports and assist with design of project websites
• Assist with public outreach & project implementation as needed

Requirements

• A degree in Urban Design or Architecture
• At least 1 year of experience working on multiple phases of the land use planning, urban design, or architecture design process, including schematic design and design development
• Ability to present and communicate complex data in a clear visual manner
• Must be able manage time against multiple project timelines and deadlines, including prioritizing competing opportunities
• Ability to Travel, when necessary

Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge in drafting/modeling programs such as AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, Rhino, etc.,
• Expertise in post-production programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, V-Ray, Lumion etc.
• Strong verbal and visual communication skills for presentations and coordination of projects,
• Experience with GIS is a plus -Experience with Tactical Urbanism /project implementation is a big, big plus!

How to Apply
Email joinus(at)streetplans(dot)org with “Urban Designer” in the subject of your email. Please include your Resume, Cover Letter, and any relevant work samples (or personal blog or website writing samples) you’d like to highlight for this position – and a short description of your favorite street or public space – tell us why you love it in 250 words or less.