Regional Practice Area Leader - Hospitality

Your Role   
 

As a market-facing practitioner with deep knowledge and experience, you will join the team to build our book of business in the Hospitality market sector through thought leadership and cultivating strategic relationships. You are adept at business development while also taking on a leadership role on projects. Working collaboratively within the region and Gensler network, you will help shape how we get the work, lead the dialogue on design innovation, and help mentor the next generation of design professionals.  

The Oakland office is seeking a Practice Area Leader for the Hospitality market sector to assume a key leadership role. The qualified candidate will have exceptional client relationship skills and a portfolio of innovative design solutions with an emphasis on built work.  

What You Will Do

• As a thought and knowledge leader, seller, and doer, you will work in concert with the office’s senior leadership developing and executing strategies to grow the region’s hospitality design practice through expanding existing client relationships and developing new lines of work 

• Serve as the Market Leader for the San Francisco office for Hospitality design, working on a variety of simultaneous projects from the conceptual design through design development phases 

• Develop collaborative relationships in the firm, with clients, and with other key constituents 

• Collaborate with design teams to deliver informed project solutions based on market expertise and deep understanding of client goals 

• Work closely with office and studio leaders to identify and recruit best-in-class talent 

• Partner with leadership to establish budgetary framework and investment strategies for the practice area 

• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, and work plans 

• Lead relationships with the client, contractor, agencies, as well as engineering and specialty consultants 

• Prepare and review proposals, contracts, and consultant agreements

• Foster strategic Hospitality business development.

• Management of clients, including project organization and successful start-up.

• Work in collaboration with other Gensler leaders in this Practice Area to leverage the capabilities of the Firm and help build the Hospitality architecture practice within our Northwest region.

• Partner with regional leadership to develop a standard of practice that addresses the unique requirements of this market sector.

• Collaborate with our Hospitality Interiors leadership.

• Develop client and practice strategies, market positioning and leadership within a design practice focused on Hospitality projects.

• Focus on talent development and acquisition.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Architecture, or Design

• Registered architect with at least 15 years of experience; inclusive of 10+ years experience in an architecture and design firm in marketing, client development, and/or management of a studio, practice group, or regional office

• Possess an expansive portfolio of high-quality built work that compliments the firm’s current portfolio 

• Excellent presentation and interview skills; ability to sell planning solutions to the highest level of decision makers (presidents, deans, chairs, facility leads, etc.), and to speak holistically about planning/issues/tr