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Landscape Designer

Fletcher Studio seeks a landscape designer to join our team of creative and innovative changemakers. Your future colleagues thrive on positive critical feedback, are eager to learn, and are always game for a design challenge.

Fletcher Studio is an agile, close-knit team working to create satisfying and sustainable landscapes, urban spaces, and living infrastructures. We believe design matters, and that people deserve to find value, meaning, and possibility in the places they encounter and occupy. We work with city makers, communities, and other visionaries to realize evocative and appropriate concepts, designed and constructed to ensure social vitality and integrity. We leverage technology to work faster and smarter—people, ideas, and culture drive our process.

About the role:

As a landscape designer with Fletcher Studio, you’ll participate in design, modeling, and construction documentation. Designers work closely with senior staff, gain exposure to a variety of design and working styles, and grow technical and project management skills. The typical workload is 2 to 3 projects at a time of varying landscape types and scales.

In the first three months you will:

• Contribute to the design process as an engaged member of project teams
• Meet one-on-one with each member of our team
• Have a mentor to help you become familiar with the FS design process, studio tools and software, and favorite neighborhood restaurants
• Visit at least one of our regional project sites that is actively under construction
• Attend client meetings

Over time you will:

• Gain experience in all phases of the design process
• Build a working knowledge of materials and share our interest in crafting details
• Grow into a leadership position for project teams and lead all aspects of project delivery
• Pursue professional development opportunities to continue learning and growing your skillset
• Contribute significantly to the design direction of projects of varying complexity and scale
• Influence and help guide the firm culture
• Pursue licensure to become a landscape architect

Qualifications

• MLA, BLA, BSLA, MArch or BArch required
• 2 to 4 years of experience in a professional office
• Authorized to work in the United States (current citizen, current H1B or Green Card)
• Strong design and graphic sense with the ability to verbally and graphically communicate design ideas, moving between hand sketches and digital
• Excellent 3D and 2D design skills with proficiency in AutoCAD
• Strong preference for candidates with intermediate Sketchup skills
• An eagerness and curiosity to learn all areas of practice
• Strong work discipline, with self-management skills
• Other desirable qualifications: Detail-oriented. Interest in diversity of project types with unique challenges. Enthusiasm for ingenious use of materials.
• Knowledge of CA plant materials appreciated.
• Team-oriented with superior verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to manage time and self-edit work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and multiple concurrent projects
• Proactive communication, strong work ethic and solutions-oriented ideas are highly valued

Compensation

The salary range for this full time position will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience.

Location

In-office with the option to work at home 1 day/week after a positive 6-month review.

Hours

Fulltime, 40 hours per week

Apply on our website here: https://www.fletcher.studio/careers

No phone calls, please.