Landscape Designer

Landscape Designer

Position Summary

The Landscape Designer is a client-facing design and business development leader responsible for generating and closing high-value landscape design-build projects. This role blends creative design talent with consultative selling — meeting prospective clients on-site, developing compelling conceptual design concepts, and converting design vision into signed contracts. This person is the face of the firm during the sales process, using design fluency to build trust, differentiate the company, and drive revenue growth for commercial, municipal, institutional, and large residential clients.

This is a hybrid design + sales role: success is measured as much by closed sales volume and client conversion as by design quality.

Key Responsibilities

Business Development & Sales

• Generate and manage a personal pipeline of prospective design-build clients, in partnership with marketing and business development teams.
• Conduct on-site client consultations to understand goals, site conditions, and budget parameters.
• Translate client vision into compelling conceptual designs that clearly communicate value and justify investment.
• Prepare and present proposals, conceptual design packages, and pricing/estimates that lead to signed contracts.
• Own the sales process from initial consultation through contract signature, including follow-up, objection handling, and negotiation.
• Meet or exceed individual and team sales targets (closed revenue, conversion rate, average project value).
• Build long-term client relationships that generate referrals and repeat business.

Design Leadership

• Lead conceptual and schematic design for prospective and active sales opportunities, emphasizing visual impact, buildability, and budget alignment.
• Develop site plans, planting concepts, hardscape concepts, and 3D renderings/visualizations to support the sales narrative.
• Ensure design concepts are realistic, constructable, and pr...