Associate / Senior Associate | London, UK | ASPECT Studios

Worldlandscapearchitect; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ASPECT Studios in London seeks an Associate or Senior Associate Landscape Architect to join the team. You will lead projects, mentor designers, and coordinate consultants to deliver world-class urban landscape and regenerative design outcomes across diverse locations.

With 10+ years of experience, you will manage concept to construction, produce top-tier documentation, and develop submissions and proposals while guiding early career designers and shaping studio culture.

Qualifications

• Run projects confidently, with strong foundational knowledge of best practice project management.
• Coordinate consultants, manage client relationships, and mentor others in the process.
• Bring a deep understanding of project life-cycles across a range of scales and typologies—from concept through construction.
• Operate confidently in Revit (essential), and produce excellent visual assets.
• Assist with development of submissions and proposals, and contribute to project design strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver projects with leadership and design quality.
• Mentor junior staff and supervise design teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Prepare and present high-quality documentation to clients and stakeholders.
• Contribute to sustainable/regenerative design outcomes across projects.

Skills

Project leadership

Client coordination

Team mentoring

Project life-cycle knowledge

Documentation

Tools

Revit

Job description

Seeking a talented senior professional with a passion for great public space, thriving cities and regenerative design to join our London team.

The Practice

ASPECT Studios is a purpose orientated, design led landscape architecture and urban design practice. With operations across Australia, Asia, the UK, and the Middle East, our studios believe in the power of design to positively change people’s behaviour and lives, the environment, and the planet. We are seeking to become leaders in regenerative design, going beyond sustainability and harm minimisation, to enhance and repair our natural world and our communities.

Our London Studio

Based in vibrant Southwark, our growing studio is sociable, collaborative and inclusive. Our works consist of a diverse portfolio of ambitious urban and landscape projects at a range of scales, working closely with colleagues across Dubai, Shanghai and Australia.

Our studio offers a supportive and focused environment, while our projects move at pace. If you’re looking to develop your design practice and contribute to meaningful, high-profile work, we’d love to hear from you.

To deliver on a diverse range of landscape and urban design work, we’re seeking expressions of interest from experienced Associate or Senior Associate level Landscape Architects to join the team.

You’ll be working on projects all over the world, so a keen interest in regions such as UK/Europe, Middle East, India or Australia will be key.

At this level, you will play a key role in the leadership of projects, delivering innovative and fresh design outcomes whilst leading project teams and shaping a lasting studio culture.

With 10 + years of experience, you’ll be able to:

• Run projects confidently, with strong foundational knowledge of best practice project management;
• Coordinate consultants, manage client relationships, and mentor others in the process;
• Bring a deep understanding of project life-cycles across a diverse range of scales and typologies – you’ll be confident managing projects from concept design all the way through to construction;
• Operate confidently in Revit (essential), and produce excellent visual assets;
• Assist with development of submissions and proposals, and contribute to project design strategy;
• Supervise early career designers, ensuring design quality as they grow their skills;
• Prepare high quality documentation and confidently present to external client groups; and
• Drive regenerative design outcomes in all that we do.

Why ASPECT Studios

We are city-shaping leaders, globally recognised for design innovation and our commitment to making a positive impact. Our studios are deeply collaborative and united by values that put people, culture and ecology at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a flexible, inclusive work environment, ongoing learning and development, and the opportunity to work on iconic local and international projects.

Fit the brief and excited to join us? Or interested in the role but not sure you meet all our criteria? We’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Damian Holmes is the Founder and Editor of World Landscape Architecture (WLA). Damian founded WLA in 2007 to provide a website for landscape architects written by landscape architects. He is a registered landscape architect and works as a strategy and marketing consultant.

Head to our website to view a full list of employee benefits.

To learn more about life in the studio visitourLondon Studio page.