Urban Planner

Your Role 

As a Gensler Urban Designer/Planner, you will create and work with a growing design team to develop strong, creative, and innovative design concepts on a range of urban design and master planning projects. Gensler is the world's largest architecture, design, and planning firm with offices in 50 locations worldwide. As a natural outgrowth of Gensler's core business of creating great places, our Cities + Urban Design practice area aims to deliver a range of performance-focused design strategy and planning services to an ever-expanding group of organizations and institutions. 

 
What You Will Do 

• Contribute and co-lead in the design and development of strong, creative, and innovative design concepts on a broad range of urban design and master planning projects, including urban infill developments, mixed-use developments, community and neighborhood-scale master plans, and district and citywide planning projects

• Develop and collaborate in creating conceptual and schematic designs of urban design and master planning scale projects

• Prepare narrative reports and presentations that communicate the design process and concepts

• Assist in presentations and production of urban design and master planning projects

• Assist in business development for the Cities and Urban Design practice area

• Take part in office activities, initiatives, and learning programs.

• Interact through projects and other office-wide initiatives with other studios and practice areas

• Support project teams and initiatives with an emerging degree of autonomy but aligned with a clear and consistent work plan to achieve the project budget, deliverables, and schedule

• Actively engage in internal and external professional development opportunities.

• Demonstrate leadership in implementing sustainable strategies in all project assignments and staff knowledge development

• Participate in marketing, proposal preparation, interviews, and other promotional activities

• Ability to work on multiple projects and coordinate tasks and subconsultant disciplines. 

Your Qualifications 

• Minimum of 5 years of related urban design and planning experience

• Undergraduate in Architecture, Urban Planning, or Landscape Architecture

• A master’s degree in architecture, urban design, planning, or equivalent is a plus

• Strong knowledge of land use planning for residential, retail, commercial, and mixed-use development

• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams through master plan development

• Strong research skills with urban planning, zoning, and policy

• Strong written and spoken communication skills, including assembling presentations and reports

• Proficient in Revit, MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch Up, Rhino, and ArcGIS

• Demonstrated commitment to sustainability and sustainable building practices required

• Committed to sustainable design principles and resilient communities, able to demonstrate this commitment in a portfolio of work. 

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 subsidized health, profit sharing, annual bonus, LinkedIn learning, holiday observance, and employee assistance programs.

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.