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Urban Designer

🏢 Populous 📍 London, England 💼 Private Practice / Firm
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£33,000 - £39,002
£2,750 - £3,250 / mo
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Location Base
London, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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Transatlantic Parity
1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Urban Designer
Populous is an award-winning, international design practice specialising in sport and entertainment venues that draw people and communities together for unforgettable experiences.
The Urban Design studio within Populous is a cross-disciplinary team, focusing on creating experience-led urban spaces. Our design ethos is ensuring the experiences and moments are continuous, and they translate seamlessly from cities to seats. Our work stands on three pillars: Exceptional design, decades-long expertise and emerging integrated digital tools. Populous’ Urban Design studio reflects our decades-long expertise on sports, entertainment, and events architecture onto larger scale projects with a transformative vision for urban futures.
Our team is growing, and we are seeking for great team-players who are technically skilled, enthusiastic, and experienced on large-scale architecture and masterplanning. We are looking for candidates who are educated in and/or experienced in the urban design to join the London studio to work on large-scale, dynamic, multi-disciplinary and world-leading masterplanning and urban design projects.
As a member of the Urban Design studio, you’ll be working closely with the architecture, landscape, wayfinding, and events teams within Populous and enjoy a multi-disciplinary, vibrant and interactive work environment on a daily basis.
The Urban Designer that would fit seamlessly into our team has:
  • A strong understanding of large-scale master planning projects
  • The knowledge and eagerness to formulate the complexities of such multi-disciplinary large-scale work
  • Ability to develop visions and narratives to conceptualise and develop design ideas, and generate diagrams, create digital models and prepare presentation materials to clearly communicate these concepts
  • Excellent design, graphics and visualisation skills, with strong digital abilities
  • Technical ability to prepare, organise, develop and edit relevant project reports, drawings, models and visuals
  • Technical ability to develop design options in 3D, collaboration with the wider design teams in a multi-disciplinary design environment
  • Strong organisational and time-management skills, ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines with a high-quality output within a multi-disciplinary environment
  • Previous knowledge, interest or research into future cities, crowd dynamics, mobility, sustainability, user experience or emerging digital technologies would be highly commended
Qualifications, skills and experience:
  • A professional degree in urban design, architecture or similar/equivalent related field
  • 2-6 years of experience in a professional design practice, with at least 2 of which including masterplanning and urban design work in various design phases
  • Very strong computer skills including both 3D and 2D and graphic software capabilities
How to apply:
If you are interest in joining our expanding team, please “Apply”. In your application, please include your CV and a one-page letter of motivation (cover letter), salary expectations, and your availability.
Populous is an equal opportunities employer. A global practice like no other, Populous employees enjoy a full range of workplace benefits, as well as the opportunity to attend events at a number of Populous-designed venues.
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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.

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Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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