Description
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Reports to: SVP OF MASTERPLANNING ARCH & DESIGN
LOCATION: Southern California residents are preferred for occasional in-person client and team collaboration. Hybrid arrangements are welcomed, and remote candidates will be considered for the right fit.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Shape What Could Be
As our Landscape Architect at Storyland, you will personally lead various landscape architectural design projects and provide direction and significant support to multi-disciplinary teams working on multi-layered projects from mixed-use to theme parks, to churches to retail and beyond. Your understanding of land use, outdoor spaces, ground contours, and passion for integrating nature with built environments will add warmth and soil-specific context to each project we imagine, design, and create.
Document the Design
You will get the opportunity to collaborate with clients, stakeholders, design teams, and outside firms to stretch your creativity by developing innovative, functional, and sustainable landscape architectural designs at various levels of fidelity. You’ll assist in developing concepts, plans, and specifications —from pencil to 3D digital models. You will prepare documentation for each project phase, moving blue sky concepts into reality.
Integrating Quality
You care about the accuracy of your work. You maintain quality control procedures to ensure your work product maintains the highest standards. You conduct regular reviews and checks of project documents to identify and resolve issues. You also love collaborating with other disciplines (e.g., designers, planners, structural architects, engineers, etc.) to ensure seamless integration of landscape architecture in every project you touch.
Grow Forward
We’re hiring someone who will roll up their sleeves and add value on day one, but we also believe in the potential of every employee. We want you to grow and have a growth mindset, & we’ll look to support that growth. We want you to grow, and we want you to help us as we do too!
WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE
For day-to-day success, you will...
Exhibit flexibility, kindness, and a willingness to share what you know. Yep, that's the top of the list!
Be comfortable in ambiguity and shaping "something" into something extraordinary without paint-by-number instructions.
Develop strong relationships with project teams, and also proactively connect with Storylanders you may not see in your day-to-day work.
The ability to produce engaging and accurate conceptual, schematic and design development documents for a range of project types:
o Large and small-scale master planned developments
o Mixed-use and infill developments
o Resort and hospitality destinations
o Theme park and attraction experiences
The right candidate will be equally excited working on a theme park installation or a healing garden in a children’s hospital or a communal area on the campus of a large church. Perform land use ideation and program development through each phase of the project. Be able to travel domestically and internationally for site visits and onsite client meetings and workshops. Prepare site plans, specifications, and cost estimates for land development, coordinating arrangement of existing and proposed land features and structures. Exhibit a strong design esthetic and proven ability in selecting the appropriate vegetation, materials, styles and colors for story continuity in your projects. You’ll ensure compliance with local regulations and building codes. You will serve as a resource to Architectural Staff, Producers, Creatives and Project Managers, coordinating multiple aspects of document development, offering technical
guidance. You will effectively collaborate with other project team members and consultants to maintain the quality of the work product within the established budget and schedule. You will ensure cross-collaboration to support efforts to maintain the original design intent of a project from early phases to implementation. You'll demonstrate an ability to work on multiple projects concurrently, with the confidence to multi-task and delegate as required. You'll be on the lookout to share what you know and mentor others on the team, both those on your immediate team and those who are not. You’ll remain plugged in to the latest trends and technologies in landscape architecture.
ABOUT US
Storyland Studios is an experience design and production management firm with offices in the US and UK. We imagine, design and create immersive experiences and environments that lift the Spirit. From our shared background at Walt Disney Imagineering, we learned the art, craft and science of experience design—of telling stories in space. Our team of over 75 veteran Imagineers, strategists, marketers, artists, animators, designers, and developers craft connected stories and create truly immersive experiences. We’re a fun-loving family that loves what we do and leads with our heart. We serve the themed-entertainment and attraction market through the Storyland Studios brand and Christian-based charitable organizations through PlainJoe.
Requirements
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE PARTY
Skills and Qualifications
7+ years of experience that demonstrate project leadership of a minimum of 2 large, landscape archictural projects delivered through opening day.
You have a full grasp of each phase of a complex project and how each discipline integrates for a successful and profitable delivery from contract to opening day. You have experience working on international projects and familiar with the challenges of navigating design and construction projects in emerging markets, like the Middle East. Excellent illustrative skills with an ability to put pen to paper at various levels of fidelity to produce renderings and visual plans.
Proficient in various architectural, design, and modeling software (e.g. Sketchup, Revit, Rhino3D, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD). You have a firm grasp of construction methods, technical drawing, and document assembly for each phase of a project. You have exceptional document management skills.
You're responsive in serving others and anticipate what's next. You have a demonstrated ability to coordinate and facilitate team work with multidisciplinary groups. You’re versatile, self-motivated and undaunted by ambiguity. You love shaping solutions to problems, you’re at home in the midst of change and embrace the process of continual improvement. You have an EQ that matches or supersedes your IQ — we hire just as much, if not more, based on values than strictly intellect or ability. If you’re humble, hungry, and servanthearted — you’ve found your people! You see feedback as a means to growth, rather than criticism. You'll be right at home working with cause-based and Christian, faith-based clientele (for projects under our sub-brand studio, PlainJoe).
You have a bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
You're fluent in English-equally able to write or present.
