Senior Project Landscape Architect

Most days mix design leadership, project execution, and team management — directing design through phases, leading drawing production review, owning multi-discipline coordination, managing client relationships, supporting construction administration, and mentoring junior project staff. You're often working in landscape architecture firms, multi-disciplinary design firms, or public agencies, and the project type and scale shape the rhythm.

What tends to be harder than people expect is the mix of design responsibility and project management at senior level. Schedule, budget, client emotions, and multi-discipline coordination can dominate, and PLA licensure is essential for stamping. Mentoring junior staff and developing business are real parts of senior project leadership.

People who tend to thrive here are design-oriented, organized about details, comfortable with client management, and patient with long project arcs. If you want pure design without project responsibility, this leans heavier on coordination. If you like leading landscape projects from concept through construction with full ownership, the role offers a clear path toward senior firm leadership.