Landscape Designer
Listed on 2026-03-15
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Design & Architecture
Creative Design / Digital Art, Landscape Architecture
Overview
We are seeking a collaborative and driven Landscape Designer / Architect with 5-10 years of experience to join Mithun. As the first Landscape Architect / Designer based in our Los Angeles office, you will have a unique opportunity to shape our emerging local landscape practice and contribute to the growth of our integrated design team. You bring a commitment to continuous learning and a passion for resilient, community-centered, and culturally equitable design, with strong skills in site planning and landscape design.
Our work spans multiple scales and partnerships—including public and private clients, nonprofits, community-based organizations, philanthropy, and research institutions. You’ll collaborate closely with our Los Angeles design team, as well as landscape colleagues in San Francisco and Seattle, who value shared curiosity, careful listening, appreciation, and learning from one another’s experiences.
- Contribute to projects as a member of an integrated design team that includes Landscape Architects, Architects, Interior Designers, and Urban Planners.
- Responsible for a wide range of site design and framework plan aspects from marketing pursuits, project management, community engagement, design studies and documentation.
- Produce diagrammatic studies, design sketches, renderings, models, and graphics for design exploration and presentation materials.
- Provide mentorship and professional guidance to emerging designers across multiple disciplines.
- Participate in thought leadership, writing, and R&D projects.
- Engage in collaborative discipline-focused team meetings and project shares.
- Prepare construction drawings and document sets, with a strong focus on technical accuracy and detail.
- Review and redline drawing sets to ensure quality and consistency.
- Assist in the development of technical specifications.
- Ability to take initiative and work independently.
- A bachelor s or master s degree in landscape architecture (BLA, BSLA, MLA).
- 5-10 years of post-graduate professional experience.
- Concept-driven and proficient in visual communication by hand or digitally.
- Polished verbal communication, public speaking, and presentation skills.
- Proven success in meeting deadlines and major design milestones.
- A commitment to sustainability.
- Experience with Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, AutoCAD, MS Office and Bluebeam.
- Project management experience, particularly in consultant coordination and collaboration, is a plus.
- Experience with Revit, ArcGIS, Rhino, Grasshopper, and Lumion is also a plus.
Please include your resume and portfolio.
BenefitsMithun benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, parental leave, transit benefits, a 401(k) retirement plan and an annual discretionary bonus opportunity. We offer eight paid holidays, vacation accrual of two weeks per year, sick time accrual, and paid volunteer time. Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts are available based on eligibility requirements. The expected range of compensation for this role is $88,000 to $105,000 per year.
Actual pay rates are based on experience, qualifications, internal equity and location.
Mithun is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
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