Hybrid Urban Designer - Shape Open Space & Placemaking

HOK; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Paid holidays and time off

Health, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

HOK’s New York office is seeking an Urban Designer to join our Planning practice. The role involves participating in all phases of large-scale projects, guiding due diligence, and developing project approaches for support work.

You may scope work and lead client presentations alongside senior staff. The ideal candidate holds a Master’s or Bachelor’s in urban design, planning, or architecture, with 5–10 years’ experience and LEED credentials within 12 months.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in urban design, planning or architecture.
• 5-10 years’ experience; or equivalent in appropriate education and experience.
• LEED credential required within 12 months of employment. LEED ND preferred.

Responsibilities

• Uses experience and knowledge of urban design to contribute towards success of the team, to design and review documents according to established standards.
• Guides project due diligence, including mapping physical site opportunities and constraints, synthesizes key performance metrics and relevant regulatory parameters.
• Strategic application of common urban design benchmarks, precedent imagery and data, based upon project and client needs.
• Drives creative urban design concepts and strategies for conceptual plan frameworks of open space, circulation and land use.
• Initiates approaches to the creation and modification of urban design documents, drawings and performs advanced calculations, ensuring the incorporation of design intent.
• Outlines, mocks up and develops urban design graphics, reports, standards and guidelines and presentation materials. Prepares content to be shared with outside design and consulting partners.
• Knowledge of urban design concepts for a range of urban design project types.
• Develops strategies for urban design frameworks, systems diagrams and conceptual plans under guidance of Senior Urban Designer.
• Continually contributes to the upgrade of the urban design process and team workflows, with excellent tools and systems management to produce high quality deliverables.
• Initiates urban design concepts based on knowledge of site planning strategies (including land use mix, block sizes, open space, building and street types and placemaking).
• Assists with project related client presentations and external events, may lead sub-topic or table conversations. Participates actively in collaborative team design meetings.
• Collaboratively incorporates integrated Sustainable Design solutions into projects with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Leads design team in completing tasks and responsibilities on projects, within the scope of work, schedule, and budget, in an organized, timely and consistent way.
• Begins to develop successful client experiences through excellence in design and information coordination.
• Reads and understands Agreements to Work within budget, schedule, work plan and client constraints.
• Assists with marketing opportunities, interviews and proposals, workplans and schedules.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Fosters a commitment to external and internal client service.
• Proactively engages staff to mentor and direct the work of less experienced staff.
• Actively promotes collaborative culture and innovative design alternatives, puts efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Demonstrates effective conflict resolution techniques with project team members.
• Assists with HOK document QA/QC and Best Practice management standards are met and archives documents appropriately.
• Actively participates in project and team quality control reviews and self-checks work for accuracy, omissions, legibility and document completion.

Skills

Urban design

Project coordination

Client presentations

Education

Master’s in urban design

Bachelor’s in architecture/planning

LEED Credential (within 12 months)

Job description

HOK’s New York office is seeking an Urban Designer to join our Planning practice. The role involves participating in all phases of large-scale projects, guiding due diligence, and developing project approaches for support work.

You may scope work and lead client presentations alongside senior staff. The ideal candidate holds a Master’s or Bachelor’s in urban design, planning, or architecture, with 5–10 years’ experience and LEED credentials within 12 months.