We require a passionate, talented, collaborative and experienced professional to join the Landscape Department, working directly with department management in setting up and managing a design excellence studio within the landscape department.
Key accountabilities:
- The role is tasked with making early concepts tangible, starting from deep research and synthesis, and executed in the context of Project scope with a strong narrative and design statement.
- Promote creativity within the design studio.
- Oversee and be accountable for quality and timely delivery of output from the design studio.
- Demonstrate leadership skills with a wide knowledge and experience base across multi-disciplines
- Assist in structured recruitment and interface with design schools and universities.
- The role will involve travel overseas for client facing meetings and project specific tasks as and when required.
Work Experience:
- Firm understanding of design process
- Competent designer
- Previous design studio experience with famous landscape studios/brands
- Experience of working in the MENA Region
- Department wide- technical leadership and strategic leadership skills
Key Qualification and Responsibilities
- A bachelor's degree in landscape architecture/Design and preferably a postgraduate degree/diploma in Landscape architecture;
- Able to lead and develop all design narratives within the design studio
- Create design excellence and manage resourcing and role allocation within the design studio.
- Have previously obtained internationally recognised design awards for their work and actively seek future awards for the design studio
- Experienced in master planning/concept to schematic design
- Have had previous design experience in high end/exclusive developments including public realm and hospitality projects
- Able to communicate design through clear graphics including diagrams, site plans, sections and renderings to convey design intent
- Knowledge of materials including planting, furnishing and hardscape
- An ability to execute with design excellence and attention to detail
- The ability to sketch/develop designs on paper and digitally
- Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience in working on a variety of scales and typologies varying from master planning to site specific landscapes
- Lead in developing marketing material and promote the design studio to a wider client base
- Positive, solution focused approach
- Proven ability to manage studio workload and time;
- Ability to build strong relationships with other departments, area offices, and project sites as required.
- Strong desire to deliver design excellence
- Ability to embed the new structure and develop new ways of working.
- Excellent technical skills, able to monitor design development.
