Strong and vibrant communities don’t just happen—they’re creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and designed. At Stantec, we bring together landscape architects, planners, engineers, architects, and designers to shape resilient, inclusive, and inspiring public spaces.

Our New York City Landscape Architecture studio is seeking a Principal Landscape Architect with a strong focus on Business Development to help grow our presence, opportunities, and project impact across the Northeast Region. Our New York City studio leads transformational design projects throughout the city, region, and United States greatly enhancing urban livability, social infrastructure, recreation, neighborhood connectivity, biodiversity, and resiliency in our communities.

Your Opportunity

As a Principal Landscape Architect / Business Development Lead, you will play a critical role in expanding Stantec’s landscape architecture practice while also leading and delivering high-quality, multidisciplinary projects. This position is ideal for a senior professional who thrives at the intersection of client relationships, strategy, project ideation, and design excellence.

You will work within Stantec’s Community Development practice and collaborate closely with Architecture, Engineering, Environmental, and Transportation teams in delivering complex infrastructure and public realm assignments. The role combines active business development leadership, industry networking, lead development, with project oversight, client-facing responsibilities, and team mentorship.

This position is based in New York City, with weekly in-office presence expected and local travel required for client and regional team meetings, pursuits, and public engagements.

Your Key Responsibilities

Business Development Leadership

Lead and grow client relationships across public and private sectors in the Northeast, translating relationships into new opportunities and awarded work
Drive business development strategy for private sector and select public sector clients, including lead identification, pursuit planning, and capture management
Partner with local and regional leadership to develop and execute Account Management Plans for priority and emerging clients
Collaborate with Stantec’s Transportation, Community Development, Environmental, and Buildings (Architecture) practices to identify cross-sector opportunities and joint pursuits
Build and maintain strategic internal and external partnerships and networks to support long-term growth in project opportunities, new project work, and staff recruitment
Track and support business development performance metrics, including win rates, backlog, and revenue growth with our internal marketing support team
Contribute to branding, marketing, and thought leadership through speaking engagements, professional organization participation, publications, social media, and awards
Lead efforts to obtain and leverage high-quality project photography to support marketing, pursuits, and awards
Critical thinking and advanced proposal writing, project approach development, and design communication skills

Project & Design Leadership

Serve in a client-facing leadership role on key projects
Manage and oversee large, complex, multi-disciplinary projects from scoping and concept design through construction documentation and construction administration
Ensure design excellence, innovation, and quality across all phases of work
Champion and integrate technology, digital tools, nature-based solutions, and climate-based solutions into our work
Maintain project budgets, schedules, and scope, with accountability for financial performance
Provide quality control review of deliverables and ensure consistency with client and regulatory requirements

People & Studio Leadership

Mentor and support staff development, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing studio culture
Lead interdisciplinary collaboration across offices and disciplines
Promote a positive, team-driven environment within Stantec’s Community Development practice

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

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Principal Landscape Architect / Business Developer