Pre-Construction Design & Development Manager Brooklyn, NY $175,000–$250,000 Full-Time | On-Site Description / Position Overview This role exists to bring structure, accountability, and execution discipline to the pre-construction phase of large-scale luxury development projects. The company is actively developing high-end mixed-use and residential projects and needs someone who can own the process before construction begins - ensuring design coordination, consultant execution, budgeting, permitting, bidding, and documentation are aligned before projects hit the field. This is not a passive coordination role. This person will operate at the center of ownership, design, consultants, and construction preparation - driving timelines, forcing clarity, resolving bottlenecks, and maintaining momentum across multiple moving parts. The ideal candidate understands how early-stage execution impacts downstream construction performance and knows how to keep projects organized, accountable, and build-ready. Florida development experience is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
Design & Consultant Leadership
- Own coordination across architects, engineers, consultants, and external stakeholders
- Drive design development milestones and maintain schedule accountability
- Ensure plans align with ownership objectives, project feasibility, and budget expectations
- Identify coordination gaps before they impact permitting or construction execution
- Lead consultant meetings, decisions, and follow-up accountability Pre-Construction Execution
- Own early budgeting, estimating coordination, and value engineering discussions
- Drive bidding coordination across trades and vendors
- Maintain schedule discipline across pre-construction activities
- Coordinate permitting workflows and regulatory requirements
- Anticipate execution risks before they impact timeline or budget Documentation & Project Controls
- Maintain organized project documentation, consultant agreements, and compliance requirements
- Ensure decisions, revisions, and project communication are tracked clearly
- Prepare projects for clean transition into active construction
- Establish operational structure and visibility across all pre-construction workflows Ownership & Accountability
- Operate as the central point of coordination during pre-construction
- Push projects forward without requiring constant oversight
- Hold consultants and stakeholders accountable to deadlines and deliverables
- Create a professional, execution-focused operating environment
Requirements
- Experience owning pre-construction, design management, or development coordination
- Strong plan-reading capability across architectural and engineering documents
- Experience managing external AEC teams and consultants
- Exposure to luxury residential, mixed-use, or large-scale development projects
- Strong budgeting, estimating, or bidding exposure
- Ability to operate in fast-moving, high-accountability environments
- Strong meeting leadership and follow-through discipline
- Florida development or permitting experience strongly preferred Must-Haves
- Direct pre-construction or design coordination ownership experience
- Proven stakeholder management across architects, consultants, and contractors
- Strong documentation and organizational control
- Ability to manage timelines and maintain execution discipline
- High-level communication and meeting leadership capability
- In-office presence in Brooklyn Success Metrics
Success in this role looks like:
- Design development phases remain on schedule
- Consultant deliverables stay organized and accountable
- Budgeting and bidding align with ownership expectations
- Permitting workflows move without preventable delays
- Construction teams receive organized, build-ready project handoffs
- Pre-construction bottlenecks are identified early and resolved proactively
- Project communication and documentation remain structured and clean Why Join
- High-visibility role with direct ownership exposure
- Opportunity to shape large-scale luxury developments from inception
- Fast-moving environment with meaningful responsibility
- Strong compensation with long-term growth opportunity
- Opportunity to influence how projects are executed before construction begins If you are an organized, execution-driven development professional who thrives in complex pre-construction environments and knows how to keep projects moving forward with clarity and accountability, we want to speak with you. Email Resume: Joel@maiplacement.com
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