Associate Landscape Architect II Landscape Architecture

Alta Planning + Design seeks an Associate Landscape Architect II for our Los Angeles location. This position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of creative, active, and sustainable projects and who is interested in growing their career as an active transportation professional. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta
Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 27 years with over 225 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

In this role, you’ll work on the design of a variety of sustainable transportation and non-motorized recreation projects. Principal tasks include establishing design direction and reviewing working drawings for multiple projects.

You should be able to effectively manage production of high-quality, accurate and complete design documents, reports, and analyses, with some production. For streetscape, urban design, trail design, and other placemaking projects, you should lead the development of cost estimates and design details for construction documents. Facilitating public engagement and communicating graphically is also expected. Associate landscape designers at Alta are expected to be proficient in CAD and other rendering software. Associates may contribute to some business development and marketing operations, and will be expected to be able to successfully manage projects, and ensure successful project delivery.

Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

Compensation

The pay range for this job in Los Angeles is $100,000-$140,000 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees: