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How much do placemaking design jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 24, 2026, the average yearly pay for placemaking design in the United States is $114,491.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $83,500.00 and $144,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Placemaking Design vs Urban Designer?

AspectPlacemaking DesignUrban Designer
CredentialsDesign degrees, certifications in placemaking or landscape architectureUrban planning or design degrees, certifications in urban planning
Work EnvironmentPublic spaces, community projects, parks, plazasCity-wide planning, infrastructure, zoning
Industry UsageCommunity-focused projects, local government, landscape firmsMunicipalities, urban planning agencies, architecture firms

Placemaking Design focuses on creating vibrant, community-centered public spaces, emphasizing aesthetics and user experience. Urban Designers work on broader city planning, infrastructure, and zoning to shape urban environments. While both roles aim to improve urban life, Placemaking Design is more community and design-oriented, whereas Urban Design involves comprehensive city planning and development strategies.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Placemaking Designer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Placemaking Designer, you need expertise in urban design, landscape architecture, and community engagement, often supported by a relevant degree. Familiarity with design software like AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and GIS tools is typically required. Strong collaboration, creative problem-solving, and effective communication skills help you engage stakeholders and translate community needs into impactful spaces. These skills are crucial for creating vibrant, inclusive environments that foster social interaction and improve quality of life.

What is placemaking design?

Placemaking design is a collaborative approach to planning and designing public spaces that focuses on creating vibrant, engaging, and accessible environments for people. It involves understanding the needs and aspirations of a community and integrating them into the design of parks, plazas, streetscapes, and other shared spaces. The goal is to foster a strong sense of place, encourage social interaction, and improve the overall quality of life in a neighborhood or city.

How does a placemaking designer typically collaborate with local communities and stakeholders during a project?

Placemaking designers often work closely with local residents, business owners, and municipal agencies to ensure that public spaces reflect the unique needs and identities of the community. This collaboration usually involves organizing workshops, conducting surveys, and holding public forums to gather input and feedback throughout the design process. Engaging stakeholders early and often helps build trust and results in more successful, inclusive, and sustainable spaces. The designer acts as both a facilitator and an advocate, ensuring that diverse voices are heard and integrated into the final design.
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Infographic showing various Placemaking Design job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 88% Full Time, 9% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 85% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 11% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $114,491 per year, or $55 per hour.

Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design

Austin, TX • On-site

$157K - $209K/yr

Full-time

PTO

Posted 10 days ago

Job description

Design streets that move people-not just cars.
At , we're leading the way in creating safer, more connected communities through sustainable multimodal transportation design. We're looking for an experienced transportation professional to lead Toole Design's integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice to join us in Austin, TX. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery.
Why You'll Love Working Here
We're not just another firm, we're a purpose-driven team of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who believe streets should work for everyone. At Toole Design, you'll work alongside thought leaders and industry experts who are committed to mentoring and helping you grow your expertise. We offer:
  • A collaborative, inclusive culture that supports your growth and advancement
  • Hybrid schedule with in-office team days (Tuesday-Thursday)
  • 8 paid holidays; and 24 days of PTO accrued annually
  • Competitive salary, excellent benefits, and transportation perks:
  • Projects that truly improve lives through safe, inclusive design rooted in ethics, empathy, and equity

What You'll Do
We design streets as public places, with engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers working side by side. Your leadership style should support and encourage that collaboration.
Leading the Practice
As our Practice Lead, you'll mentor a talented team of engineers and planners, guide business development, help shape the firm's technical direction, and stay active on major projects that strengthen client relationships and grow the practice. You will report to our Engineering Director while collaborating closely with our Design and Planning Directors.
  • Lead business development and practice business planning in support of annual growth targets, in partnership with regional leadership
  • Support the practice's financial health through effective project delivery, workload management, staff development, and quality control
  • Collaborate with local, regional, and corporate leadership to advance practice priorities
  • Help recruit and advise on hiring decisions to support local and firmwide growth goals
  • Advance training, innovation, and quality control to keep our technical work at the forefront of the industry mentoring staff through project work
  • Support marketing and raise the practice's local and national visibility
  • Guide subject matter resource groups that support practice delivery, including traffic engineering, multimodal planning, transportation design and related specialties

Leading Projects
Serve as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager on major transportation planning and engineering efforts. You will provide leadership on transportation planning projects including:
  • Comprehensive plans, long range transportation plans, city- or area-wide mobility plans and corridor studies
  • Multimodal traffic impact analysis, traffic operations analysis, and safety analysis
  • Parking, curbside management, and transportation demand management strategies
  • Public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies

You will provide leadership on transportation engineering and design projects including:
  • Multimodal street design that balances safety, mobility, access, and placemaking objectives applying safe systems principles
  • Conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations, with hand-off to civil engineering for final design
  • Traffic signal design, retiming, and timing optimization
  • Signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, and rapid-implementation design projects
  • Road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection

What You'll Bring:
  • Desire to lead a practice - not just a project. You're energized by developing the next generation of engineers and planners to see your impact through what they deliver
  • Strategic thinking for where the practice should go, what work to pursue, and how to position the firm for what's next
  • Commitment to technical excellence as a personal standard and to remain a trusted senior voice on signature, complex projects
  • Excitement to craft and communicate a vision that bridges planning and engineering
  • 15+ years of success on the types of transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects described above
  • Demonstrated success building and leading teams, programs, practices and projects
  • Experience in business development, proposal strategy, client development
  • A belief that strong engineering makes great planning real - and that streets are public places where engineering rigor and urban design strengthen one another
  • A commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems for the communities we serve

A PE is preferred. PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus. We welcome candidates whose careers have been rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning, provided they have demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.
Join Us. Make an Impact.
We're proud to be an ENR Top 500 design firm with one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry. If you're ready to do meaningful work with a supportive, talented team-apply today.
We're targeting a range of $157,000-$209,500 for individuals with a PE and $138,000-$190,000 without.
Questions, assistance or accommodations? Contact HR@tooledesign.com or call 301-927-1900, press 5.
At Toole Design, we foster a collaborative culture and welcome people of all backgrounds to help build more inclusive communities. We strongly encourage women and applicants from underrepresented communities - people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, first-generation college students/graduates, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. We're proud that about half our managers are women and we are committed to diverse leadership that reflects the communities we serve. Toole Design is a woman-owned, equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).
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