Associate Principal, Landscape Architect
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2025-12-05
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Design & Architecture
Landscape Architecture, Creative Design / Digital Art
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Company Description
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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be h accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
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Job Description
AECOM is actively seeking an Associate Principal, Landscape Architect in our award winning Northern California Urbanism + Planning studio. This is an opportunity to take on a leadership position in a multi-disciplinary practice focused on high-performing landscapes that tackle climate change, interconnectivity and mobility, smart growth, ecological systems, and natural resources. Our studio designs a broad range of urban public realm projects including streetscapes, parks, ecological restoration, and green infrastructure.
For this role, AECOM offers the freedom and flexibility to work on our hybrid schedule being a combination of in-office time and remote work.
We are looking for a passionate leader who is energized by a collaborative design process that engages colleagues, clients, and the communities we serve. A key quality of a candidate will be their ability to bring design leadership and foster a culture of design to an established design practice and a diverse set of internal and external collaborators. This leader will have a broad sphere of influence throughout Northern California, based out of our Bay Area offices in San Francisco and Oakland, CA.
The Associate Principal, Landscape Architect ’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Actively leading and managing projects from initiation through design and implementation with a focus on design and technical excellence, budget, and schedules.
- Develop and execute a strategic growth plan for the Northern California Urbanism + Planning practice, including growing our landscape architecture and urban design studio that supports our practice and projects locally and across the region.
- Acting as an ambassador to the communities, agencies, and organizations we work with and contributing to the visibility of AECOM’s brand.
- Build client relationships, pre-position for opportunities, and secure a portfolio of work that aligns with growth objectives.
- Contribute to AECOM’s “think and act globally” philosophy by creating a culture of innovation and collaboration.
- Proactively supporting and advancing the professional growth of all team members by cultivating a challenging, inspiring, and collaborative studio culture
- Collaborate with other studio leads regionally to support the regional Urbanism + Planning practice within AECOM
Minimum Qualifications :
- Landscape Architecture degree (BLA/BSLA/MLA) from an LAAB accredited institution or demonstrated equivalency
- 8 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
- Licensed Landscape Architect, preferably registered in California
- Due to the nature of the work, U.S. Citizenship is required
Preferred Qualifications :
- 10+ years of professional Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Master Planning experience
- 2+ years of applicable design leadership experience.
- Proficiency in Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite, and at least one of the following 3D modeling and rendering platforms (Revit, Rhino,…
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