Hire Urban Planner

While base salaries for Urban Planning professionals vary by region, in-house hiring adds 30-50 % overhead once you factor in recruitment fees, employer taxes, benefits, workspace and equipment. smartbrain.io’s Hire Urban Planner model charges a transparent blended hourly rate that already includes all overheads, vetting, payroll, compliance and replacement guarantees. Most clients see total savings of 25-40 % over traditional employment without sacrificing continuity because engineers work full-time on your project. You can also scale up or down monthly, so you only pay for capacity you actually need.

Every engagement begins with a mutual NDA and project-specific Statement of Work that assigns all IP created by the Urban Planning engineer directly to your organisation. Our contractors work on secure VPNs, follow ISO-aligned data-handling processes and are subject to strict confidentiality and non-compete clauses. Source files stay in your repositories and we can set up dedicated virtual machines or VDI environments upon request. In five years of operation we have had zero IP disputes, a track record that reassures even publicly traded clients.

Not at all. Hire Urban Planner maintains a global bench so you can request engineers in your own time zone or create follow-the-sun coverage. Each consultant overlaps a minimum of four hours with your core team’s working day, joins daily stand-ups and uses shared PM tools like Jira, Asana or MS Project. For 24/7 deliverables, we rota planners across regions to keep work moving while you sleep, compressing project calendars by as much as 35 %.

We offer monthly, quarterly and annual agreements with simple 10-day notice for down-scaling or termination. No upfront recruitment fees or retainer deposits are required. This flexibility lets you align Urban Planning capacity with shifting project pipelines, freeing capital for other priorities. Multi-year master agreements unlock additional volume discounts without locking you into fixed headcount.

smartbrain.io accepts fewer than 3 % of applicants. Each Urban Planning engineer completes credential verification, portfolio review, a situational judgement test, and two live project simulations scored by PhD-level domain experts. We assess zoning law knowledge, GIS proficiency and stakeholder-management skills. Only those who score 85 % or higher proceed to your interview stage, saving your team dozens of screening hours.

Our replacement guarantee covers the first 30 days at no additional cost. Simply notify your Customer Success Manager, and a replacement candidate — already pre-vetted for the same role — is introduced within 72 hours. Because smartbrain.io maintains a deep bench, continuity risk is virtually eliminated and project momentum remains intact.

Post-signature, most clients conduct first interviews within 48 hours and have their Urban Planning engineer fully onboarded by Day 5. Our legal and procurement team handles all paperwork in parallel, so there is no administrative lag. If you have urgent deadlines, we can often start same-day using talent already on standby.