Designer

Role Overview

OXMAN is seeking an architect or landscape architect with exceptional design sensibilities and outstanding representation skills to join the EDEN design team. This role is for a designer who moves fluidly between rigorous spatial thinking and expressive visual communication, and who can rapidly translate complex ideas into clear, compelling visuals that drive projects forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects, landscape architects, and computational designers to design nature-centric developments, including industrial campuses, residential communities, and urban interventions.
• Develop spatial strategies and typologies that integrate built and living systems, dissolving conventional boundaries between human and non-human environments.
• Rapidly generate and iterate on design concepts through sketching, diagramming, and modeling, clearly communicating core ideas at each stage of a project.
• Produce high-quality visual materials—plans, sections, diagrams, renderings, and physical/digital models—that synthesize complex ecological and spatial relationships into accessible narratives.
• Translate environmental performance data (e.g., carbon sequestration, water filtration, thermal regulation) provided by our computational designers into spatial design decisions and visual frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of a coherent visual and representational language for EDEN projects across scales and typologies.
• Support the development of design guidelines, toolkits, and reusable frameworks that extend across multiple projects.

Key Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in an architecture or landscape architecture practice.
• Advanced degree or equivalent professional experience in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or a related field.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual design thinking and exceptional representation skills across multiple media (sketching, drawing, rendering, diagramming).
• Proven ability to work quickly and iteratively, producing clear and compelling visuals under tight timelines.
• Proficiency in Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong planning skills across multiple scales.
• Ability to synthesize complex environmental, technical, and spatial data into clear design logic and visual communication.
• Interest in or experience with ecological design, systems thinking, or performance-driven design processes.
• Strong collaborative mindset and comfort working in interdisciplinary teams.

Key Goals and Outcomes

• Shape the design of large-scale developments to be measurably more ecological, resilient, and regenerative.
• Help define and evolve EDEN’s design and representation language—how ecological systems are visualized and communicated.
• Contribute to a new model of practice that integrates design, science, and technology into a unified workflow.
• Deliver impactful, visually compelling work that communicates complex ideas to clients, collaborators, and broader audiences.
• Contribute to projects that directly affect climate resilience, biodiversity, and the future of human–nature relationships.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Applications that do not include uploads or active/working links to portfolios of work will not be considered.

Compensation Range

$110K - $137K