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Design empowers people.It inspires place and community and the realization of their potential. At Stantec, our Landscape Architects create inspired places with a commitment to social, economic, and environmental sustainability. We take a systems-based design approach and believe that the best solutions of our community, hospitality, and urban design work are the products of our inquisitiveness and diverse perspectives.

Our team members have opportunities to provide services across the United States in visioning; master planning; community design; park and recreation design; commercial and corporate design; State and Federal projects; healthcare design; urban design and revitalization; environmental resiliency and green infrastructure; transportation planning and design; and landscape restoration and rehabilitation. These diverse project opportunities are regularly delivered in teams of experts from across the North America - we are better together.

Our US East Landscape Architecture and Planning team brings together over 30 talented professionals across multiple states, with Boston, MA as our hub. No matter where we’re located, we collaborate as one unified team to deliver exceptional design solutions.

Stantec is seeking a Principal Landscape Architect to serve as a business developer and co-team leader for our Boston-based Landscape Architecture Team. The Principal Landscape Architect will lead design vision and strategy for large, complex, multi-disciplinary projects while driving business development and client engagement.

As a Principal Landscape Architect, you will work in a team environment on a wide range of projects and scales such as planning and design of parks and recreation facilities; bicycle, pedestrian, and multiuse trails; sports and athletic facilities; healthcare, urban infill, corporate, and educational campuses; and master planned communities including multi-family residential, senior housing, mixed-use and transit-oriented developments.

This role emphasizes design leadership, guiding concept development, ensuring design integrity through all phases, and mentoring team members, alongside responsibilities for project management, construction documentation, and administration. The successful candidate will work within Stantec's Community Development practice, and collaborate with internal Architectural, Environmental, and Engineering disciplines.

You will lead and assist with assignments across disciplines, manage budgets, provide urban and landscape architecture design experience, and interact with existing and prospective clients with exemplary communication skills and a strategic and design-oriented perspective.

You will work within a local and virtual team setting, with weekly presence at our Boston office expected. Local travel will be required for attending client or public meetings, scoping new assignments, and participating in internal meetings.

• Business development responsibilities will include: market research and strategy, client relationship management, proposal development, branding and marketing, identifying and cultivating strategic partnerships, monitoring business development performance indicators including win rates and revenue growth, and fostering a culture of internal collaboration.
• Lead design vision and strategy for large, complex, multi-disciplinary projects while driving business development and client engagement.
• Proposal preparation, coordination, and review.
• Client-facing responsibilities on key assignments.
• Supporting projects and pursuits led by other disciplines within Stantec.
• Management of large, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Oversight of projects from beginning scope, to conceptual design, through construction document phase and construction administration.
• Promoting design excellence, development of creative solutions.
• Maintaining project budgets.
• Quality control review of deliverables.
• Inter-office and inter-disciplinary collaboration.
• Fostering positive collaborative environment within Stantec's Boston Community Development Team.