Senior Planner - Master Planning - 1O1K056

Snipebridge, a strategic talent solutions company specializing in connecting exceptional talent to great career opportunities in the Architecture & Planning industry, is seeking an experienced Senior Master Planner.

Our Client is a leading Architecture & Design house that works in niche design areas with a selective global clientele. They have been in business for over 50 years and have won many prestigious awards including the National AIA Architecture Firm Award. They have also been named in the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Architecture by Fast Company for two years in a row. The firm’s diverse project profile includes Custom Residential, Multi-Family Housing, Commercial, Museums, Cultural spaces, and Hospitality.

Position Description:

The Senior Planner oversees the planning and development of projects, ensuring they adhere to zoning regulations, land use policies, and other relevant codes.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provides professional planning consultation in the planning, design, and coordination of projects.
• Collaborates with other planners, architects, and landscape architects to create integrated, sustainable, and equitable solutions for complex land planning problems.
• Leads conversations around research and analysis that include master plan level programming and space planning studies.
• Leads conversations in stakeholder outreach for community-based land planning assignments.
• Provides detailed attention to varied needs for private, public, institutional, and nonprofit clients.
• Coordinates and leads conversations with multiple consultants at once including mobility, civil, infrastructural, financial, and zoning, to name a few.
• Analyzes natural and man-made factors affecting site development suitability for a wide range of project typologies.
• Liaises with project management, other architectural team members, and consultants.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on specialized systems.
• Develops and represents lead technical viewpoint on projects.
• Leads conversations with the Partner and/or Principal on appropriate technical solutions, products, and project delivery.
• Provide guidance on analytical and design graphics to junior team members.
• Lead subject matter expertise and QA/QC design documentation and client material.
• Takes on aspects of external project communications and the preparation of presentations with the support of junior team members, with subconsultants/clients.
• Leads concept and technical presentations for project meetings and reports.
• Work closely with the directors and partners on advancing agenda on the future of cities, including urban design and planning trends, sustainability, resiliency, mobility, ecology, infrastructure, etc.
• Work with business development team on urban planning and design RFQs and proposals.
  

Education/Skills/Experience:

• APA accredited degree in Urban Planning, or a professional degree in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or closely related field.
• 10+ years of related professional experience or similar role with equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in design software, including AutoCAD, Revit, Enscape, ArcGIS, Rhino 3D, Adobe Creative Cloud
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience working on public realm projects, including both the horizontal (street, landscape, and public space design), and vertical (architecture, massing, and façade articulation) and being able to bridge multiple disciplines at the same time
• Experience with a variety of project scales from planning to smaller city planning/urban projects.
• Experience in mentoring & QA/QC work for junior staff, with technical planning documents including urban design guidelines and detailed site plans, sections, axonometric and diagrams.
• Highly experienced with zoning and development codes.
• Experience in design-lead and project-management roles.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to integrate physical, social, economic, and sustainability factors into responsible designs for our clients.

Benefits

At the time of posting this job, the hiring range for this position in Seattle is between $106,000 and $120,000 annually.  Final salary decisions are made based upon the extent and relatedness of the candidate’s education and experience and considering internal equity and external market factors.

All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and must already possess long-term work authorization.