Regional Design Technology Lead - Sustainability Simulations

Design Technology at Gensler

The Design Technology community is at the heart of Gensler’s People + Process + Technology philosophy. This community leads our firm’s digital transformation initiatives with focus on design creativity and project delivery practices. Working closely with our colleagues in Design Studios across the globe we deploy best-in-class project-specific technology solutions to provide unparalleled design excellence to our clients.

Your Role

We are looking for a Regional Design Technology Lead – Sustainability Simulations to join our SW Design Technology Team. This is a great opportunity to join a team of innovators at an organization with a global impact to contribute to world class design and a resilient future for our planet.

Reporting to the SW Region Design Technology Director, you will be leading and implementing initiatives with a focus on leveraging next generation environmental analysis simulations and workflows to empower design teams to make data driven design decisions. You will collaborate with design leaders to empower designers to incorporate computational workflows and thinking into their design processes, embedding sustainable simulations and insights to it. This will help produce innovative outcomes and allow designers to tell compelling, computationally driven sustainable design stories.

Candidates should demonstrate prolific expertise using industry-trusted simulation tools and analysis techniques to tell design stories in areas such as User Comfort and reduction of Operational & Embodied Carbon. In this role you will be expected to blend your simulation expertise with computational and generative design platforms to achieve impactful results on projects. Successful candidates should also have experience using and implementing programming languages and scripting techniques common to design authoring platforms to deliver and drive innovation in their work. Your work will create proof of concepts and provide leadership on technical direction with respect to innovative and scalable computational design and sustainable simulation solutions. The long-lasting positive effects of the practice-based solutions that you help create and introduce to the firm, will be reflected by user engagement metrics and project stories.

Your empowerment and leadership of design teams to bring data-driven sustainable insights and computational design intelligence to every designer, every place, and every project at Gensler, will drive our growth and directly support our firm’s ambitious commitments to climate resilience.

Professional Traits

• You are passionate about fostering a culture of innovation and proactive in communicating how this philosophy contributes to an impactful experience in the organization. 

• You carry a deep sense of curiosity about new topics and challenges coupled with a desire to employ innovative technologies in practice to develop new bold ideas.

• You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, creative, and multi-disciplinary work environment.

• You are well adept in prioritizing your time, creating workplans, meeting deadlines, and comfortable working on more than one project at a time.

What You Will Do

• Create and apply computational algorithms for a variety of design problems with a focus on the intersection of computation and sustainability.

• Create partnerships with Gensler’s Climate Resilience Experts to build knowledge bridges between their domain expertise and Design Technology sustainable computation tools and platforms. 

• Identify, research, recommend and implement technology simulation solutions and workflows that address needs expressed by our clients and design practitioners.

• Research and develop thoughtful responsible ways to integrate Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into sustainability simulations.

• Present sophisticated concepts to non-technical audiences through storytelling, visual communication, and data-driven insights.

• Create proof-of-concept computation simulation prototypes.

• Lead formal and informal training for team members.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Building Science, Design Technology, or other relevant academic or work experience.

• 15+ years of experience with computational resilience simulations on real-world projects.

• Expert Rhino-Grasshopper User. 

• Detailed knowledge and experience with Autodesk Revit.

• Ability to create and run Building Energy Models.

• Domain expertise with climate data inputs, assumptions, and terminology. 

• Understanding of, and ability to use programming languages and scripting techniques in your daily work. 

• Experience creating Life Cycle Carbon Assessments across multiple authoring platforms. 

• Exceptional critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.

• Must provide a portfolio in either PDF form or a link to a website portfolio. If Artificial Intelligence is utilized in creation of any significant portion of the portfolio candidate must disclose its scope of use. 
   

*This is not a remote position. The successful candidate is expected to be in the office.*
**The base salary range will be estimated between $130,000 - $150,000 plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience.

Life at Gensler

At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.

As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.