Design Manager/Project Manager - Aviation
Company: Gensler
Location: Dallas, TX
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-06
About this role
Your Role
Gensler’s Dallas office is seeking a Design Manager with a passion for Aviation to join our Cities team. As a Design Manager, it’s your role to lead and deliver a variety of project types and sizes, through all phases. You will join our team of design thinkers and doers who specialize in helping to tell stories and create experiences in the context of design. As the main point of contact for the client in all work produced, you’ll draw on your extensive knowledge of the design and delivery process while mentoring junior staff to encourage the highest level of design and client satisfaction.
What You Will Do
- Nurture and manage positive relationships with existing client contacts, optimizing all potential opportunities
- Maintain an awareness of existing clients’ business objectives, plans, target audience and market trends, and ensure that appropriate opportunities are identified to generate further demand for Gensler services
- Support and contribute to new business development with both current and potential clients
- Responsible for the day-to-day delivery of projects ensuring they are delivered on time and on budget
- Lead and facilitate the overall cross-functional project team
- Focus on the smooth management of the project process, ensuring clarity of requirements, deliverables, timelines, and visibility against fees throughout the project life cycle
- Prepare, communicate, and monitor project work plans, budgets, and deliverables for client and internal teams
- Prepare and review proposals, contracts, and consultant agreements
- Manage multiple aspects of client, team, and project coordination, including full documentation coordination with structural, MEP, lighting, AV, landscape, civil, and other consultants
- Actively take ownership of problems and successful resolution planning in consultation with Practice Area leadership and Studio Director
- Contribute positively to project reports and staffing meetings with concise and accur...