Job Description

Jasmax is seeking a Senior Landscape Architect to join our Auckland studio and help shape meaningful, enduring places across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.

About Jasmax:

Jasmax is a multi-award-winning architecture and design practice with studios across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. With over 250 staff members, Jasmax offers multi-disciplinary expertise and integrated design solutions across architecture, interior design, urban design and landscape architecture to deliver complex projects across all sectors, from city-shaping infrastructure to local community spaces.

The role:

This is an opportunity to contribute to the next stage of growth for our Landscape practice across New Zealand and Australia. The role brings together design leadership, project delivery, client relationships and team development, with a focus on building capability and creating work that is thoughtful, resilient and connected to people and place.

Working closely with the Landscape Principal, you will help lead the team, strengthen client and market relationships, and contribute to bids and submissions that support a strong national pipeline of landscape work. You will bring both strategic perspective and practical delivery experience, helping translate ideas into well-resolved outcomes.

For the right person, this role offers a strong pathway towards a Principal level position and the chance to influence team culture, client relationships, regional opportunities and the continued evolution of the Jasmax Landscape practice.

Attributes, Skills and Experience:

• A registered Senior Landscape Architect with a strong portfolio of work from concept through to construction completion.
• Strong design judgement, project delivery leadership and commercial awareness.
• A collaborative leadership style that builds capability, confidence and momentum through mentoring, critique and shared endeavour.
• A commitment to design excellence, sustainability and practice leadership, helping shape the future direction, reputation and impact of the Landscape team.
• An outward-looking, relationship-led approach, with the credibility to build trusted partnerships with clients, collaborators, consultants and industry stakeholders across Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Confidence representing Jasmax through client presentations, workshops, interviews, submissions and industry engagement.
• A strategic, market-aware mindset, with the ability, or potential, to identify and pursue opportunities across public realm, infrastructure, education, civic, regeneration and related sectors.

Why Jasmax:

Our workplace culture is shaped by the values of our Manifesto; we celebrate bravery, honesty, thoughtfulness, the unity that arises from diversity, and respect for people and place. When you join Jasmax, you will receive Te Hau Ora, The Breath of Life, a koauau that symbolises the value of your individual contribution to our collective endeavour.

We offer:

• A flexible work environment, including flexible start and finish times, one day working from home, extended parental leave and personalised return-to-work plan.
• A title framework that supports internal progression and recognition.
• Tailored leadership training and mentorship programmes.
• A variety of employee benefits and social events are organised to celebrate successes, rituals, and milestones.
• A diverse and inclusive culture. Jasmax is an equal opportunity employer and proud Gold Supporter of the Pride Pledge.

How to apply:

Please submit your CV and portfolio through the application process. If your portfolio is larger than 5 MB, you are welcome to email it to Tracey.Church@jasmax.com

Applications close on 20 August. We may review and progress applications before this date.

Only applicants with the right to work in New Zealand will be considered.