Designer

Urbanagcouncil; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 33,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Urbanagcouncil is a regenerative landscape design, build and education firm located in Atlanta. The Designer role focuses on generating ecologically-impactful designs for clients, aligning client goals with site conditions and communicating design choices clearly, upholding SOG standards.

Based in Atlanta, we are a regenerative landscape design, build and education firm specializing in edible and ecological landscaping.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to self-direct work and manage client expectations.
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite, GSuite, and Excel; CAD preferred.
• First Aid and CPR certification required (training provided).

Responsibilities

• Exceed client expectations with timely, proactive communication.
• Manage personal Google Calendar and client timelines.
• Create proposals and render concepts in CAD.
• Present deliverables and discuss budgets with clients.
• Coordinate with Designer Manager and design team meetings.

Skills

Communication

Time management

Self-directed work

Sales skills

Client management

Education

First Aid and CPR Certification

Tools

Adobe Suite

GSuite

Excel

LandFX CAD

Job description

GROWING A STRONGER, SAFER, PROFITABLE GREEN INDUSTRY

REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to have tough conversations. "Clarity is kind." ~Brene Brown
• Fluency Adobe Suite, GSuite, Excel
• Fluency in LandFX CAD preferred
• Fluency in ecological design, edible, medicinal, and regionally-appropriate plants
• Strong aesthetic understanding of the built environment
• Fluency in water management strategies
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent sales skills
• Ability to self-direct work
• Ability to work directly with clients, and appropriately manage expectations
• Current First Aid and CPR certification required (training and certification provided through SOG)

The purpose of the Designer is to generate ecologically-impactful designs for clients, enroll clients in SOG values by marrying client goals with site conditions and communicating design choices clearly and effectively, ensuring that SOG standards for design and client experience are upheld. The Designer provides an amazing client experience, with valuable education along the client journey to enroll them in our values and practices as they express in their specific design. The Designer is responsible for producing designs that are buildable, play to SOGs strengths, and realistic for the client’s stated budget. The Designer reports directly to the Designer Manager.

Role + Responsibilities

Admin

• Exceed client expectations of timeliness, communicativeness, and professionalism, being preemptive and proactive in communicating
• Manage personal Google Calendar diligently and communicate to clients and team proactively when expectations will not be met.
• Maintain filing of all projects according to filing protocols
• Work in design software suite to build upon design templates, as delegated by Designer Manager
• Attend design team meetings and report on current projects
• Attend regular 1:1 meetings with Designer Manager
• Provide timely edits to Design Coordinator for client deliverables

Consultation + Design Process

• Attend consultations to define scope of work
• Conduct design proposal costing, delivery, and negotiation
• Create proposals
• Move projects appropriately through CRM software and keep all project tracking tools updated regularly
• Track billing and send invoices
• Manage project calendar
• Manage client communications
• Maintain appropriate load of clients and projects
• Conduct site analysis visits
• Conduct charrettes and attend internal design meetings
• Design and render conceptual and detail designs
• Annotate in CAD
• Integrate research and company best-practices based on our values into designs
• Present design deliverables to clients
• Discuss budget at beginning of project and manage client expectations
• Understand client priorities and reflect goals in VE to be handed off to Project Manager

REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to have tough conversations. "Clarity is kind." ~Brene Brown
• Fluency Adobe Suite, GSuite, Excel
• Fluency in LandFX CAD preferred
• Fluency in ecological design, edible, medicinal, and regionally-appropriate plants
• Strong aesthetic understanding of the built environment
• Fluency in water management strategies
• Excellent time management skillsExcellent sales skills
• Ability to self-direct work
• Ability to work directly with clients, and appropriately manage expectations
• Current First Aid and CPR certification required (training and certification provided through SOG)

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Full-time, 40 hrs/week, hourly. Compensation between $24-$37 / an hour, commensurate with experience. Includes PTO, sick pay, paid holidays, continuing ed stipend, and profit sharing.

Salary & Benefits

Full-time, 40 hrs/week, hourly. Compensation between $24-$37 / an hour, commensurate with experience. Includes PTO, sick pay, paid holidays, continuing ed stipend, and profit sharing.

Company

We are a regenerative landscape design, build and education firm located in Atlanta. We specialize in edible and ecological landscaping.
Every outdoor space we create contributes to protecting biodiversity; growing food, medicine, and pollinator habitat; building soil, and restoring the water cycle. Your garden, no matter the size, can have a positive impact.
Most gardens are designed to be high input systems-water-intensive, chemically-dependent, and high maintenance. Instead of toxic, resource-heavy conventional landscapes, we build health from the ground up by transitioning landscapes to become ecologically-sound, healthy ones. Our work is to reconcile the human built environment and the natural world, creating a conversation between the two that is life-giving.