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About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Landscape Architect to lead design and delivery for a major, highly complex, nature-forward campus project in the Southeastern United States while helping shape the next chapter of Sherwood's interdisciplinary landscape architecture and urban design practice. This is a hands-on senior leadership role for someone who can move comfortably between site-wide vision, technical detail, project strategy, client conversations, and team priorities.
Responsibilities
- Lead the project team through Design Development and Construction Documents, translating design intent into coordinated, technically rigorous, and buildable drawing and specification packages.
- Direct and review hardscape, planting, grading, drainage, site furnishings, materials, landscape details, specifications, and interdisciplinary interfaces, with a strong understanding of constructability, cost, sequencing, and long-term performance.
- Lead landscape architecture services during construction, including RFIs, submittals and shop drawings, design clarifications, field observations, contractor coordination, punch walks, and resolution of unforeseen site conditions.
- Protect the quality and intent of the design while responding pragmatically to field conditions, contractor questions, schedule pressures, cost constraints, substitutions, and value-engineering decisions.
- Proactively identify and resolve conflicts between landscape, civil, architecture, structural, MEP, water feature, ecology, irrigation, lighting, and other specialty systems before they affect construction.
- Lead rigorous reviews at major milestones and take ownership of critical technical or coordination issues, ensuring decisions are made quickly and open items are carried through to resolution.
- Translate major milestones into clear priorities, responsibilities, decision paths, and action items so multiple design and technical workstreams can move efficiently in parallel.
- Anticipate what the team, client, consultants, and contractors will need next; actively manage dependencies and keep complex deliverables moving toward completion.
- Manage project budgets, staffing, fee burn, consultant scope, resource allocation, and scope changes while protecting design quality, schedule, and project profitability.
- Identify design, technical, contractual, and coordination risks early; bring the right people together; and make or facilitate timely decisions before issues affect project delivery.
- Maintain a strong site-wide landscape vision while making sure high-level design ideas can successfully translate into detailed, constructible solutions.
- Work closely with Sherwood's civil engineers and environmental scientists, as well as architecture and specialty consultants, to integrate ecology, hydrology, green infrastructure, water systems, grading, circulation, and constructability into a coherent landscape experience.
- Move comfortably between master-plan scale and individual details, understanding when a decision requires broader design thinking and when a technically practical solution is most important.
- Serve as a senior point of contact who builds confidence, understands client priorities, and maintains strong relationships through complex project decisions and delivery challenges.
- Lead presentations, workshops, and executive conversations that translate complex design and technical issues into clear decisions and compelling narratives.
- Know when to advocate firmly for design quality, scope, schedule, or team needs and when to adapt, helping clients, consultants, and contractors reach decisions while maintaining productive relationships.
- Establish clear priorities across the team, assign work thoughtfully, and help staff understand what needs to happen now, what can wait, and what requires senior attention.
- Understand team members' strengths, interests, and career goals; provide meaningful feedback and create opportunities for growth while maintaining accountability for quality and deadlines.
- Empower staff to own their work while being willing to step directly into critical design, technical, or coordination issues when senior experience is needed to keep the project moving.
- Build a low-ego, high-trust team environment where people communicate openly, support one another, and perform at a high level without relying on unsustainable workloads.
- Strengthen client and partner relationships, identify new opportunities, and contribute to RFQ/RFP responses, interviews, scopes, fees, and pursuit strategy.
- Help grow Sherwood's landscape architecture and urban design capabilities, standards, workflows, technical knowledge, and market presence.
- Encourage thoughtful use of computational design, BIM, data, AI, IoT, and other emerging tools to improve design exploration, technical coordination, communication, and construction delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from an accredited university.
- Registered Professional Landscape Architect (PLA) license required, or current state registration with ability to obtain Tennessee reciprocity within 1 year.
- 10+ years of progressive landscape architecture experience, including substantial responsibility for complex, multidisciplinary projects and project teams.
- Demonstrated design leadership on large-scale campus, public realm, mixed-use, waterfront, land development, or civil/environmental infrastructure projects.
- Proven ability to lead projects across the full design lifecycle, from master planning and concept design through DD, CD, CA, bidding, construction administration, and field observation.
- Strong technical understanding of site planning, grading and drainage, hardscape, planting, materials, detailing, specifications, constructability, and cost implications.
- Experience managing scope, fees, schedules, staffing, QA/QC, consultant coordination, and client expectations across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and 3D modeling workflows such as Rhino and/or Revit; working knowledge of Civil 3D, GIS, and project management tools is highly desirable.
- Outstanding written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and design issues into clear decisions and compelling narratives.
- Ability to travel periodically to project sites (interstate travel one week per month for the foreseeable future), client meetings, and workshops as required.
Skills
- Master planning
- Urban design
- Public space sensitivity
- Human experience sensitivity
- Circulation sensitivity
- Ecological infrastructure
- Water-sensitive landscapes
- Stormwater systems
- Hydrology
- Habitat design
- Regenerative site design
- Large corporate campus leadership
- Technology campus leadership
- Complex architectural team coordination
- Complex engineering team coordination
- Complex specialty design team coordination
- Complex construction team coordination
- Computational design
- BIM
- Data analysis
- Parametric workflows
- AI-enabled design tools
- Business development
- Client relationship building
- RFQ/RFP responses
- Interviewing
- Scope of work definition
- Fee proposal development
- Pursuit strategy
- Mentoring multidisciplinary teams
- Staff development
- Cross-office collaboration
- Cross-cultural collaboration
- International consultant team collaboration
Location
- New York, NY
- Southeastern United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture
- Master's degree in Landscape Architecture
Salary/Compensations
- $124,000 to $158,000
Benefits
- Flexible working with every other Friday off
- Competitive Health plans (PPO and HMO options)
- Dental plans
- Vision plans
- Learning and Development stipend
- Generous PTO
- 8 paid holidays
- Automatic 401k enrollment
- 401K match
- Team events, lunches and happy hours
About the Company
- Sherwood is a civil and environmental engineering firm committed to investing in and embracing people, communities, and the environment.
- The team has delivered net zero energy and net zero carbon systems, net positive water systems, resilient coastlines, natural resource protection, green streets, living roofs and more for thousands of clients globally.
- Specializes in sustainable infrastructure, water management strategies, green building design, and systems-based solutions for infrastructure and landscapes.
- Focuses on the conservation and management of the consumption of all site resources — carbon, energy, water, and waste.
- Has worked on over thirty award-winning projects, with work published locally and internationally.
- Founded in 2003, award-winning projects include Hudson Yards, San Francisco Better Streets Plan, Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the Baietan Urban Area Plan in China.
- Mission is to engineer an environmentally and socially regenerative planet.
Equal Opportunity
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.