Bicycle Design Lead, OLS

Job Overview

Transportation Planning and Management (TPM) is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City's streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division's responsibilities include planning, street design, technical analysis, signs, transit development, freight mobility and markings, ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists.

The Office of Livable Streets (OLS) is tasked with prioritizing strategic planning, community engagement, research, policy, design, implementation, and long-term management. Their goal is to create streets that are livable, supporting safety, accessibility, inclusion, resiliency, active modes, community cohesion, and economic vitality citywide. Additionally, they aim to enhance New York City's pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility networks, providing comfortable, connected, green, and reliable transportation options across the five boroughs.

They place special emphasis on Priority Investment Areas, mode shift, and reimagining streets. The office also develops innovative new programs, design typologies, project delivery, and analysis tools to meet the demands of a rapidly changing population with evolving needs and technologies. The Cycling & Micromobility Unit is responsible for the nation's largest network of on-street bicycle facilities (1,200+ lane‑miles), enhancing street safety for all users, and increasing bike ridership in the five boroughs.

The team's focus is the innovative redesign of city streets to expand and improve the bike network, with emphasis on improving connectivity between neighborhoods, increasing access to safe bicycle infrastructure across the city, and creating a more equitable transportation network that serves all New Yorkers.

• Assist in the design and development of construction‑ready plans for bicycle infrastructure projects across the five boroughs.
• Collaborate with engineers and planners to ensure innovative urban bikeway designs rooted in sound principles are incorporated into street improvement projects that reduce preventable deaths and injuries in support of the NYC Streets Plan.
• Review existing right‑of‑way and develop detailed proposed roadway cross‑section designs that integrate bicycle facilities, pedestrian improvements, and traffic calming to enhance safety for all street users.
• Prepare maps and technical drawings using AutoCAD, Illustrator, GIS, and other graphic tools, applying the latest traffic calming techniques and streetscape design concepts.
• Create comprehensive AutoCAD drawings showing vehicle and bike lane configurations, intersection treatments, curb alignments, roadway dimensions, signal locations, and pavement markings.
• Coordinate with project managers and engineers to translate conceptual designs into technically accurate construction documents and support project implementation.
• Manage multiple concurrent design projects and meet critical deadlines while complying with all city, state, and federal rules and regulations.
• Review and quality‑check drawings produced by junior staff, consultants, and other team members, and develop and maintain AutoCAD standards, templates, and best practices for the unit.
• Conduct community outreach related to bicycle lanes and complete streets design; speak at public meetings with community boards, public officials, and stakeholders.
• Review traffic studies to assess impacts and convey results; prepare presentations and materials to communicate proposed improvements.
• Ensure all designs comply with AASHTO, MUTCD, and NYC DOT standards and adhere to all agency safety rules and regulations.

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in civil engineering and one year of full‑time satisfactory experience in civil engineering work; or
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and a Master’s degree from an accredited college in civil engineering.

• Advanced AutoCAD proficiency with a minimum of 3‑5 years of experience producing…