Senior Landscape Designer

Senior Landscape Designer

WATG is the world's preeminent destination and hospitality design firm. We are employee-owned, almost 80 years young, and home to over 500 creative, globe-trotting professionals located remotely and in our offices in Atlantic City, California, Dallas, New York, Honolulu, London, Singapore, and Shanghai.

Our approach to design applies a hospitality ethos to the development of all shapes and sizes. From initial feasibility studies to finishing touches, we operate globally as an integrated, multidisciplinary practice. Along with our interior design studio, Wimberly Interiors, we specialize in hospitality, gaming + entertainment, urban + mixed-use, and high-end residential design.

WATG is hiring a Senior Landscape Designer for our office in Los Angeles, CA.

The Senior Landscape Designer works on the development of project concept design, site plans, specifications, production of presentation drawings, and sketches. The Senior Landscape Designer finds design solutions for a variety of project types from hotel and resort destinations, residential multi- family communities, urban and mixed-use development, and large-scale master planning developments.

Responsibilities include designing landscape architectural projects while developing progressive solutions to design challenges, conferring directly with senior leadership in the development of design concepts and project implementation, preparing, developing, modifying, and reviewing the production of drawings and models, preparing site plans to include grading, hardscape, water feature, and planting design, stormwater management systems design, landscaping, developing and coordinating diagrams, renderings, and conceptual graphics with members of the project team, participating and directing project planning and design, completing design sketches, presentation drawings, diagrams, schedules, and other computer-generated or hand-drawn project documents, contributing to layout studies and yield studies, providing specialized technical assistance with particular landscape building types, components, materials, elements, or building codes, conducting code research, writing specifications, and coordinating permitting, providing QA/QC on plans and specifications, developing solutions to technical problems in the landscape architectural plans and drawings, providing various pre-design services, including feasibility and environmental impact studies, site selection, or other design requirements, overseeing a small team in project requirements and objectives, schedules, and budgets, coordinating client presentations, and fostering a commitment to external and internal client services.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture or related field, 5 to 10 years of experience in landscape architecture and/or site design, landscape architecture registration preferred, environmental accreditation preferred, proficient technical knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign, SketchUp, Illustrator, and AutoCAD; Revit and Rhino experience preferred, strong freehand illustration and rendering skills, visualization, and digital graphic skills, effective communication skills in verbal presentation, written narrative, and graphic representation, ability to manage multiple project priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines consistently, and works well in a team environment.

Salary range: $75,000 to $95,000 per year

WATG is an Equal Opportunity Employer