Job Description

Studio Overview: Plural is reshaping the field. As a highly collaborative landscape architecture studio, Plural fosters an environment where team members, regardless of title or experience, take ownership, contribute ideas, and engage deeply in every project. We prioritize clear communication, healthy work habits, and professional growth, ensuring our team thrives inside and outside the office. We seek nimble, proactive thinkers who are as comfortable designing as they are problem-solving, who see the big picture while mastering the details, and who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a sense of purpose to their work. At Plural, you’ll be part of a dynamic team shaping meaningful spaces that reflect and uplift communities. Join us in pushing the field forward—together. Job Summary and Responsibilities: Plural Studio seeks a landscape designer or landscape architect to join our collaborative team. In this role, you will take ownership of key project components—developing detailed graphic drawings and design documentation that communicate clear, compelling concepts. You’ll coordinate directly with clients, contractors, and consultants including architects, engineers, MEP, irrigation, and joint trench teams, to ensure alignment and technical accuracy throughout the design process. You’ll be responsible for integrating existing site features into resilient, context-sensitive designs, while analyzing conditions such as drainage and grading to inform planning decisions. Additional responsibilities include overseeing construction quality through site inspections, managing subcontractors, and evaluating materials and installations to ensure they meet design intent. You may also represent the studio in presenting plans to public stakeholders, including community groups and government agencies. This role is ideal for someone who brings strong design thinking, technical know-how, and the ability to confidently and carefully navigate complex, multi-partner projects. Required Technical Skills:

• Design Cycle: Works rigorously in design exploration, iteration, and refinement.
• Visual Design: Ability to generate beautiful illustrative plans, renderings, and clear diagrams and graphics.
• Construction Detailing: Successful experience in construction detailing.
• Architecture regulations: Familiarity with local zoning requirements and legal statutes that regulate landscape design.
• AutoCAD: Fluency in AutoCAD, including experience in compiling and managing drafting sets with sheet set manager and detail/tag automation.
• Technology: Extensive technical knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam and Bluebeam Sessions, 3D modeling in Rhino or Sketchup.

Required Competencies:

• Communication: Communicate assumptions and get clarification on tasks up front to minimize the need for rework. Propose solutions, not just problems. Anticipate client questions and prepare productive and insightful answers in advance.
• Engagement: Balances creativity with structure. Ensures that the standard project lifecycle moves forward smoothly while maintaining high quality and care.
• Adaptability and Flexibility: Balances strong design intent with the ability to pivot in response to real-world challenges, ensuring that our projects maintain integrity even through evolving site conditions, stakeholder input, and construction constraints.
• Collaboration: Prioritizes honesty, active listening, and clarity, ensuring that collaboration flows smoothly, expectations are managed, and our team and clients stay aligned throughout the project lifecycle.
• Problem Solving: Partners closely with contractors, fabricators, and grounds workers, refining technical details to ensure that even the simplest projects maintain their design clarity without compromising the core vision. Ensures that form, function, and constructability align seamlessly.

Additional Job Details:

• Salary Plural is committed to providing a competitive salary based on experience and Landscape Architecture licensure status.
• Benefits We offer full-time employees (and dependents) medical, dental, and life insurance and a 401(k) plan. We also reimburse initial or relicensing exam fees.
• Flexible Work Our team engages in active mentorship at all design phases, from concept to construction. The office uses a hybrid model that allows employees to balance their schedules while working remotely.

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