Junior Level Landscape Designer (Boston)

Junior Level Landscape Designer (Boston)

At Sasaki we purposefully take on challenging work that we see as opportunities to evolve and stretch. As such we look for teammates who are excited to engage fully from the get-go. Ideas matter tremendously around here and as a Sasaki designer you will be encouraged to have a point of view to share your thinking often to push design further and to develop a comfortable rapport with clients. For a mid-sized firm we guard our small-firm feel focusing less on hierarchy than on working together to yield the best designs.

We are currently seeking collaborators in our Landscape Architecture discipline. The most successful candidates can deliver design excellence attention to detail organization and time management skills and potential to grow into leadership roles over time. Not every designer needs to deliver on all of these attributes at once but this is the mix of talent we seek. If you think you can add something special to our team and our practice we would love to hear from you.

What you bring:

• Design chops youve got vision creativity and skills. You have a strong working knowledge of popular trends in public space resilience green infrastructure and have an interest in detail design including material selection construction techniques and planting.
• Collaborative spirit the idea of interdisciplinary teamwork gets you excited
• Passion you have a healthy dose of ambition for yourself your team the work (and the firm youll come to love)
• Proactive resourcefulness youre energetic and positive about solving problems and take initiative to find a way to yes. You are self-motivated and can manage your time effectively while juggling multiple projects.
• Growth-orientation youre curious and want to find greater ways to impact the world around you
• Humanistic sensibility you design for people and you generally enjoy working with others
• Leadership you are building experience in guiding teams mentoring staff listening and incorporating the ideas of others and are interested in representing Sasaki to clients and the greater design community
  
  

What youll do:

• Develop and coordinate all facets of project design from conceptual design (sketches illustrative graphics 3D-Models renderings) through construction documentation (details plans document production).
• Perform production functions: sketching drafting documentation and model creation
• Prepare design presentation packages
  
  Experience and Education:
• A Professional Degree in Landscape Architecture from an accredited program
• 2-4 years of experience preferred
• Experience in construction documentation strongly encouraged
  
  High level of proficiency in:
• Communication and Presentation: Adobe and Microsoft suites rendering physical model making
• Documentation: Revit and AutoCAD
• Design: Rhino SketchUp Grasshopper etc.
  
  

Experience and Education:

• A Professional Degree in Landscape Architecture from an accredited program
• Licensed Landscape Architect a plus (not required)
• 2-4 years of experience
• Experience across design phases from master planning to construction documentation and administration
• Strong communication presentation and public speaking skills

Please share a resume portfolio (work samples) and cover letter.