Landscape Director

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!   At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.   Job Description: Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Landscape Director to join our team. This role will provide strategic leadership and program-level oversight for one of the world’s most ambitious public realm developments. Operating within the Parsons PMO, the Landscape Director will be accountable for driving performance, alignment, and quality across multiple landscape design and delivery packages, while maintaining a high-performing team and strong client and stakeholder relationships. What You’ll Be Doing Provide strategic leadership across the landscape portfolio, setting direction, priorities, and standards aligned with the programe vision and objectives Lead and integrate multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring alignment across design consultants, delivery teams, and internal stakeholders Drive performance, accountability, and quality across all landscape packages, ensuring delivery against programe milestones Act as the senior interface with the client and key stakeholders, representing Parsons in high-level engagements and providing solutions-oriented leadership Establish governance, reporting, and control mechanisms to ensure clarity, consistency, and delivery assurance across the programe Develop and mentor senior team members, building leadership capability and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement What Required Skills You’ll Bring Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related discipline. Minimum 15 years of relevant experience, including leadership of large-scale landscape or public realm programes Proven experience leading large-scale landscape or public realm portfolios within complex program or mega-projects Demonstrated ability to lead and manage senior, multi-disciplinary teams in high-performance environments Strong program-level perspective, with the ability to balance quality, cost, schedule, and risk across multiple workstreams Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior clients and influencing outcomes in complex environments Solid understanding of PMO structures, governance frameworks, and program delivery controls What Desired Skills You’ll Bring Experience delivering major public realm or vision-led developments with high visibility and complexity Strong change leadership capability, with experience driving organizational improvement within programe environments Commercial and contractual awareness across consultant and contractor interfaces Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information. We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY! Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to   https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/ .