Senior Project Manager/ Vice President, Design (The 78)

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the strategic goals and objectives for the project during the design and construction phases in conjunction with the Executive Team.
• Responsible for drafting and monitoring project plans, budgets, and scopes to ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Master Planning and Design Leadership:
  • Develop and maintain the overall master plan including land use strategy, massing, circulation, infrastructure and public realm frameworks.
  • Guide design vision across multiple parcels and building types.
  • Evaluate design proposals, in collaboration with Development team, for site-wide consistency, feasibility and adherence to project goals.
  • Close collaboration with Development and Construction teams to ensure program, schedule and budget goals are achieved.
• Project Management:
  • Oversee the master planning process from concept through documentation phases.
  • Maintain deliverable schedules.
  • Coordinate master planning with architectural, landscape, and building development teams to support future vertical construction.
  • Track milestones, budgets, assumptions, and project risks at a district-wide scale.
  • Facilitate timely decision-making by preparing scenarios, trade-off analyses, and recommendations.
  • Coordinate presentations such that the extended team is informed throughout the design progress.
  • Ensure compliance with zoning, shoreline regulations, sustainability goals, and city planning processes.
  • Review consultant drawings and documents for coordination, accuracy, and quality.
  • Support phasing and implementation planning for multi-year development rollout.
• Consultants:
  • Work with Department Head to assemble the appropriate team of consultants to produce the highest quality product.
  • Review and comment on all deliverables.
  • Manage consultant’s budgets and discern the need for and request additional scope of work.
  • Track and recommend approval of invoices based on consultant deliverables.
• Schedules:
  • Develop and maintain deliverable schedules.
  • Collaborate closely with other Related teams so that documents are delivered and evaluated within the timelines established.
  • Identify and maintain any timelines that are related to governing agency reviews.
• Meetings:
  • Conduct periodic coordination meetings involving related consultants so that information is shared and dialogue is consistent.
  • Record and minute all meetings and keep track of attendees’ input.
• Construction:
  • Provide support to clarify scope during bidding.
  • Attend meetings with construction trades to clarify and/or direct any in-field design decisions.

  Qualifications

  • Professional degree in Architecture, Urban Planning or equivalent.
  • Licensed Architect with 10+ years of experience in large-scale urban, mixed-use, or campus planning.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder design and planning efforts.
  • Strong understanding of site infrastructure, civil coordination, and urban systems.
  • Experience with waterfront or climate-resilient design is a plus.
  • Excellent ability to articulate planning vision and guide diverse teams.
  • Deep knowledge of zoning, land use planning, site engineering, circulation networks, and public realm frameworks.
  • Ability to coordinate civil, structural, landscape, and architectural systems across large, multi-building campuses or developments.
  • Familiarity with municipal and environmental regulations, utility coordination, and permitting processes.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess scenarios and develop implementable solutions.
  • Ability to balance long-term vision with near-term development constraints and financial realities.
  • Comfortable working within multidisciplinary teams (architecture, engineering, landscape, sustainability, development).