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

Responsibilities

Related Midwest is looking for someone to manage the strategic master planning associated with our large scale project, The 78. The role will guide the long-term vision for the project, manage multidisciplinary design teams, and ensure cohesive integration of buildings, infrastructure, public realm and environmental systems across a complex, high-profile site.


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.
• Develop strategies for open spaces, site circulation, riverfront development
• 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.
• Monitor and document critical design decisions to ensure they are consistent with project goals and delivered in a timely manner.
• 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

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.

Anticipated base salary range : $175,000 +
Actual base salary within the anticipated range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and market factors.


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).

Benefits:

• Personalized Health Care : Multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options; Employee Assistance Program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive salary and incentive packages; matching 401(k); FSAs and HSA; employer-paid life and AD&D insurance; paid leave & disability programs
• Social Wellness: 19+ days of PTO; mental health counseling & resources; fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance; volunteer days and donation matching
• Career Development : Learning & training programs; tuition & certification reimbursement; internal advancement opportunities

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Overview

Company Overview

Formed in 1972, Related is the most prominent privately-owned real estate firm in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, the company has offices and major developments across the world. Related owns and manages a premier portfolio of assets valued at over $70 billion, including the 28-acre Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan's West Side.


Related believes in investing in its talent and cultivates a positive, team-oriented environment where every voice is valued. Employees are encouraged to boldly take on new challenges, transcend the status quo, and demonstrate strong entrepreneurial spirit. In its relentless commitment to excellence, Related works to foster an innovative approach in its team members so that they can positively impact the communities in which they conduct business. Learn more about Related at


Divisional Overview

Related Midwest, the Chicago office of Related Companies, is the preeminent developer of mixed-use properties, affordable housing communities, and luxury condominium and rental homes across Chicago. The company commands a portfolio of residential, mixed-use and master-planned properties, including pioneering projects like The 78 where the company is heading a transformational development on 62 acres in the heart of downtown Chicago to create the city's next great neighborhood. Related Midwest is also the largest developer of affordable housing in the Midwest, with more than 10,000 units, and has never converted an affordable unit to market rate.


The firm's other market-defining projects include ultra-luxury residential tower One Bennett Park, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects; The Row Fulton Market, the first high-rise in Chicago built by an African American general contractor (BOWA Construction); luxury rental towers 500 N. Lake Shore Drive and OneEleven; Lathrop, an ongoing restoration and redevelopment of the historic Julia C. Lathrop Homes into a mixed-income community; 400 Lake Shore Drive, two residential towers situated where the river meets the lake in Chicago, and Roosevelt Square, an innovative 120-acre multi-phase development on Chicago's west side.


For more than 30 years, Related Midwest has been an industry leader in community commitment and routinely sets the bar for measurable equity, diversity and inclusion standards on all of its projects. The company is deeply committed to improving neighborhoods, creating sustainable opportunities for small businesses and community residents, and building inspirational places and homes for all. Related Midwest's business model is built on partnership with minority- and women-owned firms as well as mentorship of small minority- and women-owned businesses as they launch and grow. The firm is a founding partner in HIRE360, a first-of-its-kind community partnership designed to expand professional development and employment opportunities in the trades.

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