Area Transportation Planning Business Class Leader (Transportation Planning)

Location: Los Angeles, Irvine, Riverside, or Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States

Salary: $163,000–$243,000 per year, depending on skills, experience, education, and geographical location.

Company

hirify.global is an employee-owned professional services company delivering transportation planning, engineering, infrastructure, and community-focused solutions.

What you will do

• Lead the transportation planning business class and oversee planners, engineers, and related professionals in Southern California.
• Coordinate staff development, mentoring, staffing, workload management, and the production of high-quality deliverables.
• Manage major multidisciplinary transportation planning projects, including long-range plans, corridor studies, transit and rail plans, freight plans, and emerging mobility programs.
• Lead scope development and project execution across multiple transportation disciplines.
• Support business development, client presentations, project pursuits, and high-profile transportation planning opportunities.
• Contribute to annual budgeting and strategic planning with area, regional, national, and global leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in planning, engineering, architecture, or a closely related field; a master's degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years of experience in transportation planning.
• Professional or engineering registration with related technical experience, such as AICP, PE, PTOE, PTP, or PMP.
• Experience developing and managing diverse teams and multiple projects.
• Strong analytical, communication, presentation, client relationship, and business development skills.
• Understanding of multimodal planning across automobile, transit, rail, and non-motorized modes.

Nice to have

• Expertise in freight planning, aviation planning, or multimodal planning.
• Active participation in professional organizations such as ACEC, ITE, WTS, or COMTO.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee-owned culture focused on inclusion, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and employee assistance program.
• Paid time away, parental leave, and paid holidays.
• Retirement savings plan with employer match and employee referral bonus.
• Tuition reimbursement and employee network groups supporting belonging and participation.