Boston, MA

MASS is seeking a full-time Senior Landscape Designer /Senior Landscape Architect to join our team in Boston, MA. This is a hybrid role, with a minimum of three days per week spent working in the office.

MASS Design Group is a mission-driven design collective that aspires to great impact through interdisciplinary design. We collaborate with communities to create landscapes that promote human dignity and planetary health.  We work towards a regenerative design culture that advances economic, social, and environmental justice from the scale of a site to the scale of a system. We believe that all communities should have agency in the design process and are seeking a passionate and experienced colleague to join our team and help lead the way. On the boards today, we have multiblock urban parks dedicated to truth telling & restorative justice, campus projects commemorating desegregation and those who lived it,  regional scale conservation & climate projects in the United states and Africa, amongst other smaller projects addressing gun violence, health care, coastal resilience, all seeking contextualized and community lead place making.

This opportunity is flexible and responsive to your level of experience and interest - we are building out new areas of work in landscape, climate and memorials, and we are looking for leadership and collaboration as we envision the next phase of growth for our team.  If you have a skillset you think could support inspirational partners as we endeavor to bring  their powerful visions to life, we’d love to speak with you.  We are looking for someone with substantial project experience from partner readiness through construction, or deep experience in any of those phases in particular.   You will work collaboratively with our interdisciplinary team to represent and refine design narratives, and then develop construction documents which clearly and professionally translate design intentions into buildable projects. We are excited to grow the team with your thoughtful leadership, ideas, and experience.  We’d love to discuss what that might look like for you!

If you are interested in joining the conversation or learning more about how we work, please apply for one of our open positions.

The Senior Landscape Architect/Senior Landscape Designer will lead deep & collaborative design work from narrative development, concept manifestation, schematic design, design development, and construction document, construction administration, and ideally, return to projects over time for observation and learning.   We have projects of various sizes and in various phases, so we are interested to hear what part of the work you are most passionate about and share our needs to see how these two can overlap!

HOW YOU WORK

• You are committed to working with partners  to co-create landscapes that reflect their unique needs and aspirations.  
• You love to meet amazing new people, travel to work with absolutely brilliant partners globally working in healthcare, conservation, education, climate, agriculture, thoughtful urbanization, commemoration and memorialization.
• You have a commitment to applying the MASS methodology and working to high project standards while maintaining flexibility and humility toward the clients and communities we serve. 

• You are able to inspire and guide design team members to achieve their full potential and have experience managing individuals, teams, and providing mentorship and team building . 

• You have a track record of building positive relationships with community members and project partners. 
• You are equally attentive to big picture project planning as you are to the technical details.
• You celebrate the input of others and know dialogue is critical to design rigor both in the studio and the field.

• You love to work through the hard spots, knowing they challenge us but inevitably make projects and teams stronger.

EXPERIENCE + SKILLS

• 6-8 years of related landscape and/or urban design and project-based experience;  professional degree in landscape architecture, urban design or urban planning; license is ideal but not required
• Able to plan and lead engagement efforts that uncover and relay essential findings that inform critical narrative drivers in overall projects
• Experience to lead large projects (ex. >$1M fee budget) and teams
• Capacity to oversee and effectively deliver complex projects
• Reliability to present directly to the client on the technical and design solutions
• Skills necessary to manage client budgets, schedules and programs; project communications and documentation; office administrative tasks; and project team assignments
• Experience necessary to estimate fees, determine scope of work, and prepare proposals and contracts
• Proficiency in Revit, AutoCad Rhino, Lumion 
• Project delivery experience from pre-design through construction

At MASS Design Group we want people to be afforded the ability to do public interest work as a career and offer competitive salaries, health insurance, retirement plans as well as the opportunity to work with lighthouse organizations on seminal projects that promote justice and human dignity. Expected salary range for this position is $70,000-$90,000, or higher for candidates with experience beyond the basic requirements of the job description.

With over 130 employees from almost a dozen countries, MASS lives our belief that only a diverse staff from widely varied cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds is properly equipped to tackle complex challenges in our communities. We aspire to create a more inclusive architecture profession and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. 

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