Job Description & How to Apply Below
We are working with a leading design consultancy seeking a senior landscape architect to lead an Abu Dhabi studio. The successful candidate will assume responsibility for the studio’s creative direction, oversight of projects, financial performance, and day-to-day operations, while driving business development and ensuring high-quality, sustainable, and culturally responsive landscape design.
Primary Activities- Provide senior-level oversight to the Abu Dhabi design team and help define the studio’s creative design language and style parameters for all projects, in coordination with Group Design Directors
- Maintain oversight of the team’s projects, schedules, and resources; ensure alignment with agreed design direction from inception through construction
- Monitor and guide project trajectories to ensure design intent is realized, maintaining coherence from concept to delivery
- Oversee the financial management of the studio’s projects, assuming responsibility for profitability and budget adherence for all design-team-led work
- Keep the studio abreast of the latest industry trends, innovations in design processes and technologies, and contemporary aesthetic direction
- Lead active business development, pursuing new client opportunities while nurturing repeat business through strong client relationships
- Assume overall responsibility for day-to-day operations, administration, and office management of the Abu Dhabi Studio
- Manage multiple landscape design projects of varying complexity, size, and value
- Lead project teams of architects and designers to create inspiring, healthy, sustainable, and inclusive landscapes that enhance the sense of place
- Demonstrate familiarity with Authority approval processes, including submissions and ESTIDAMA or equivalent sustainability standards
- Review and challenge multidisciplinary project work from other engineering teams
- Read, interpret, and produce technical drawings, specifications, reports, proposals, contracts, and tender documents with clarity
- Proficient in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and MS Office; working knowledge of Sketch Up, Lumion, Revit, and Rhino is an advantage
- Commercial awareness and project profitability understanding
- Strategic planning, organization, and execution
- Project planning, scheduling, and resource budget
- Team leadership, coaching, and people management
- Client relationship management and stakeholder engagement
- Ability to operate effectively in a cross-disciplinary, multicultural environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture or Architecture; postgraduate degree pr
- CMLI or equivalent professional recognition preferred
- 15+ years of experience, including leadership on large-scale landscape design projects
- High proficiency in spoken and written English.
- Experience in the MENA region, with familiarity of Abu Dhabi Municipality processes, is advantageous
- Leadership role with real influence over the studio’s creative direction and growth
- Competitive compensation and benefits aligned with senior/director level, with performance-based
- Opportunities to shape landmark projects across the region within a globally renowned design practice
- Collaborative, design-forward culture with opportunities for professional development and regional impact
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