Lead Architect/Landscape Architect - Senior Level

Waggonner & Ball, a Moffatt & Nichol Studio, is actively seeking a Architect and/or Landscape Architect Team Lead to join our Northern California team. Waggonner & Ball is an internationally respected urban planning, design, and architecture firm with an interdisciplinary practice committed to creating resilient landscapes, buildings, and communities. Our projects span all scales from buildings and sites to regions with a focus on water, culture, and history. We are a community of designers who create architecture and environments sensitive to context, time and place. We believe that designing for resilience requires Living with Water® and building with nature. We are a cross-disciplinary design practice specializing in adaptation planning, resilient landscapes, institutional architecture, and historic preservation. As a studio within Moffatt & Nichol, a global engineering and infrastructure advisory firm, we streamline design, engineering, and construction services to deliver beautiful, holistic solutions to the most critical climate challenges of our time.  

About Moffatt & Nichol:  

Moffatt & Nichol is a leading U.S.-based global infrastructure advisor specializing in the planning and design of facilities that shape and serve our coastlines, harbors and rivers, as well as an innovator in the transportation complexities associated with the movement of freight. For the 3rd year in a row, Moffatt & Nichol is Ranked #1 in Engineering News-Record for Marine & Port Facilities in the U.S. Additionally, our firm consistently ranks in the Top 100 Pure Designers in the US and the Top 50 Designers in International Markets. We were also named Southeast Design Firm of the Year 2023.  

Moffatt & Nichol's professional staff includes engineers, planners, scientists and architects who serve our global client base from offices in Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. The firm provides clients worldwide with customized service and a level of excellence that have become the firm’s hallmark in several primary practice areas – ports and harbors; coastal, environmental and water resources; urban waterfronts and marinas; transportation, bridges and rail; inspection and rehabilitation; and energy.  

Duties and responsibilities: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. 

• Lead the design process from conception through development of construction documents 
• Coordinate with architects, landscape architects, urban designers/planners, engineers, and other disciplines as required to deliver projects 
• Manage subconsultants and construction services throughout project lifecycles
• Coordinate activities with Waggonner & Ball New Orleans Studio
• Coordinate closely with business managers and technical leaders in the company to advance initiatives
• Perform periodic site visits and attend client meetings as required
• Perform project management duties
• Attend and lead client meetings including development of meeting minutes
• Lead the implementation of quality control and quality assurance on projects
• Build relationships with existing and new clients
• Participate in projects pursuits / opportunities including positioning, team building, proposal writing, interviewing and contract negotiation
• Mentor and train architecture, architecture, and urban design staff
• Actively participate in initiatives to grow the team as required through hiring  

Other duties: 

Please note this job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

 Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or Landscape Architecture; required
  • Master’s degree; preferred
• Professional Licensure in CA or the ability to obtain via reciprocity within 6 months; required
• 8-15 years+ of experience in architecture and/or landscape architecture; required
• Proven ability to design, implement and manage both small- and large-scale projects and studies
• Proven ability to think at multiple scales, is strong at problem definition and project scoping
• Experienced in institutional and civic architecture, landscape, and urban design
• Appreci