Senior Landscape Architect / Planner

Our client is a design practice founded on the idea that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture, and people and that inspiring surroundings positively affect people’s lives. The firm’s work can be found across the globe with projects as wide-ranging as huts to high rises, homes—often for art collectors—to academic, cultural and civic projects, museums and exhibition design, places of worship, creative production, urban design, and interior design.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Landscape Architect / Planner oversees the planning and development of projects, ensuring they adhere to zoning regulations, land use policies, and other relevant codes. Senior planners often collaborate and lead conversations (in subject matter expertise) with architects, engineers, developers, and local government officials to create comprehensive plans for the built environment. They will also be responsible for managing project teams, delegating & conducting research, analyzing data, and presenting proposals to clients or stakeholders.  To succeed in this role, you should have a combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, communication abilities, and a commitment to sustainable and equitable urban planning.  This role will collaborate with internal teams to deliver exceptional results within specified deadlines.

Primary Responsibilities

Planning and Coordination:

• Provides professional planning consultation in the planning, design, and coordination of projects.
• Coordinates and leads conversations with multiple consultants at once including mobility, civil, infrastructural, financial, and zoning.
• Collaborates with other planners, architects, and landscape architects to create integrated, sustainable, and equitable solutions for complex land planning problems.
• Contributes to a wide range of project types and scales for higher education campuses, research and development districts, urban districts and neighborhoods, transit-oriented developments, hospitality, and mixed-use, residential, and commercial developments. 
• Leads research, analysis, and stakeholder outreach for master planning and community-based land planning projects.
• Provides detailed recommendations to varied needs for private, public, institutional, and nonprofit clients.
• Experience working on public realm projects, including both horizontal (street, landscape, and public space design), and vertical (architecture, massing, and façade articulation) and being able to bridge multiple disciplines at the same time.
• Experience in mentoring & QA/QC work for junior staff, with technical planning documents including urban design guidelines and detailed site plans, sections, axonometric and diagrams.

• Manage multiple projects concurrently, from initial concept through design development, construction documentation, and implementation.
• Develop project schedules, budgets, and resource plans, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. 
• Coordinate with project stakeholders, including clients, architects, engineers, contractors, and regulatory agencies, to achieve project goals. 
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including architects, engineers, planners, and environmental consultants, to integrate planning and landscape design with overall project goals.

• APA accredited degree in Urban Planning, or a professional degree in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or closely related field.
• 10+ years of related professional experience or similar role with equivalent work experience.
• Experience in design-lead and project-management roles
• Experienced with the intersection of urban social issues such as communities-at-risk, public health, access to open space and green infrastructure system thinking.
• Proficient in design software, including AutoCAD, Revit, Enscape, ArcGIS, Rhino 3D, Adobe Creative Cloud
• Advanced proficiency in Digital File Organization, MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, Web Browser, MS Excel, Bluebeam
• Advanced understanding & thinking of ecosystem functions and threats, across geographies from coastal and estuarine environments to high country and the wildland/urban interface.
• Advanced knowledge in Planning and landscape architectural concepts. 
• Highly experienced with zoning and development codes. 
• Ability to integrate physical, social, economic, and sustainability factors into responsible designs for our clients.
• Able to work through initial stages of business development and marketing, from proposals to contracts and project initiation to completion. 
• Able to guide conversations at a variety of project scales from planning to smaller city planning/urban projects.

At the time of posting this job, the hiring range for this position in Seattle is between $105,000 and $125,000 annually.  Final salary decisions are made based upon the extent and relatedness of the candidate’s education and experience and considering internal equity and external market factors.

All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and must already possess long-term work authorization.