Strategy Manager

General Information

Posting Date

08-18-2026

Time Type

Full-Time

Job ID

8856

Areas of Expertise

Strategy

Job Category

Strategy

Locations

New York, NY, US

Description

At Gensler, Design Strategy is about helping organizations navigate change and unlock new possibilities. Combining research, analytics, design thinking, and deep stakeholder engagement, we develop strategies that transform the way people work, experience, and interact with the built environment.

Our New York Strategy Studio is expanding, and we're seeking an experienced Strategy Manager to lead complex client engagements and help shape the future of our growing practice. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker and trusted advisor who brings expertise from workplace strategy, management consulting, real estate strategy, change management, experience strategy, or a related field.

You'll work with leading organizations across corporate, cultural, and real estate sectors, helping them solve complex business challenges through innovative strategies that align people, place, technology, and organizational goals.

We're looking for someone who is equally energized by delivering exceptional client outcomes, developing teams, and contributing to the evolution of our practice. The ideal candidate brings prior experience leading strategy or consulting engagements and can contribute immediately as a client-facing leader, mentor, and trusted advisor.

Your Role
As a Strategy Manager, you will help organizations tackle complex business, workplace, and organizational challenges through research-driven, data-informed, and human-centered strategy. Working at the intersection of business, experience, and the built environment, you'll lead engagements from discovery through implementation planning, helping clients make informed decisions and drive meaningful change.

This role combines client leadership, project delivery, business development, and team mentorship. You'll oversee multiple engagements, guide multidisciplinary teams, contribute to practice growth, and help strengthen Gensler's strategic advisory capabilities in New York and across the firm.

We're looking for an experienced professional who can quickly contribute strategic expertise, build trusted client relationships, and play an active role in shaping the future of our growing practice.

What You Will Do

• Lead strategy engagements from pursuit through delivery, ensuring successful outcomes for clients and project teams.
• Build strong client relationships and facilitate conversations with senior stakeholders around workplace, portfolio, organizational, and experience-related challenges.
• Provide leadership to our client and internal teams by communicating project objectives, scope, terms, and schedule.
• Lead workflow planning, coordination, and administration for a multi-disciplinary team of strategists, researchers, designers, and stakeholders to generate transformative ideas and implementable strategies.
• Continually seek opportunities to help us work in smarter and more effective ways.
• Develop proposals and project scopes for new client engagements, creating innovative approaches that deliver value and generate client enthusiasm.
• Understand our team member capabilities and goals in order to build effective project teams and to identify opportunities for team member advancement as well as hiring needs.
• Be the primary point of contact for clients, responding to communications and requests in a timely manner.
• Arrange and prepare for client touchpoints, documenting decisions made, action items, and deadlines.
• Proactively manage project financial performance, including resourcing, scope, fees, forecasting, and profitability.
• Manage and track new business opportunities, client touchpoints, and project pipeline using Salesforce.
• Interface with our design studios to ensure the seamless transition of design strategy to design implementation.
• Partner closely with the Studio Director to maintain seamless studio operations with a dynamic staffing model.
• Mentor team members and support their professional growth through coaching and project leadership.

Who You Are-You're a strategic thinker and relationship builder who enjoys helping organizations solve complex challenges. You are passionate about the built environment and its impact on individuals and organizations. You:

• Excel at building relationships and influencing stakeholders across all levels of an organization.

• Drive accountability and clear structure on projects that may have vague parameters or frequently change/evolve.
• Effectively manage multiple concurrent projects in a dynamic environment, bringing structure, organization, and disciplined time management to complex work.
• Are a quick, tactical thinker, able to see the big picture and chart a path forward.
• Are a strong and persuasive writer, able to clearly and succinctly describe work process, options for consideration, findings, recommendations, communications, memos, etc.
• Collaborate effectively and empathetically across disciplines and perspectives.
• Demonstrate strong business judgment and an understanding of project economics.
• Bring curiosity, initiative, and a commitment to continuous learning with an acute attention to detail.

Your Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in strategy consulting, workplace strategy, management consulting, organizational development, change management, real estate strategy, experience strategy, or related advisory fields.
• Proven success leading complex client engagements and managing consulting/strategy engagements.
• Experience serving as a primary client contact and building long-term client relationships.
• Experience responding to RFQs and RFPs
• Demonstrated ability to develop project approaches, scopes of work, and professional service proposals.
• Experience negotiating project scope, fees, managing project financial performance, and ensuring fiscal responsibility for projects
• Experience facilitating executive workshops and stakeholder engagement processes.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in a relevant discipline a plus.
• Experience within workplace strategy, architecture, real estate, or related fields is a plus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign preferred), and digital collaboration platforms such as Miro, Mural, and Microsoft Teams.

To be considered, please include 2-3 project examples and a cover letter as part of your submission.

**The base salary range will be estimated between $117,500 - $140,000. Gensler's total compensation package is multi-layered and includes a base salary, two annual bonuses paid in December and June. To learn more about our compensation philosophy and full benefits offerings, please visit Great People, Great Rewards | Gensler **

About Strategy at Gensler Gensler's Strategy Practice is focused on exploring and defining how space, technology, services, and policy can create great experiences and support organizations' best work. Our multidisciplinary global team partners with corporate clients, healthcare and cultural institutions, real estate developers, and universities to solve complex business and organizational challenges.

Through research, stakeholder engagement, analytics, and strategy development, we help clients align their environments with their business objectives and create experiences that support performance, culture, and growth. Working alongside Gensler's design teams in New York and around the world, we translate strategy into impactful design solutions while helping organizations navigate and sustain change.

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 Awareness 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 medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.

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.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state and local law.

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