Senior and Landscape Architects

Company Description Gillespies is a multidisciplinary practice of landscape architects, landscape planners, masterplanners, and urban designers with studios in London, Oxford, Manchester and Leeds. For over 60 years, the team has designed with nature to create exceptional spaces, from rooftop gardens to major city masterplans, where people and environments thrive together. The practice focuses on context-driven, regenerative design, drawing on a site’s natural assets, people, and culture to create resilient and sustainable places.

Gillespies’ portfolio includes notable projects such as Elephant Park, Television Centre in White City, Google HQ’s rooftop garden, and large-scale international masterplans and waterfront developments. Applicants can expect to work within a diverse, globally aware team with expertise across landscape architecture, urban design, masterplanning, and landscape planning for a wide range of sectors.

Role Description: The roles wiill colaborate or lead and contribute to the design and delivery of landscape projects across public realm, residential, mixed-use, and masterplanning schemes both locally and internationally. Roles are flexible and either permanent, fixed term or freelance involving developing concept through to detailed designs, preparing drawings and planting plans, producing reports and presentations, and coordinating with internal teams and external consultants. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing project stages, attending client and stakeholder meetings, supporting junior team members, and ensuring design quality, technical accuracy, and alignment with regenerative and sustainable design principles.

Qualifications

• Strong skills in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Design, with experience delivering projects from concept to construction.
• Practical experience in Landscaping implementation, site coordination, and collaboration with contractors and multidisciplinary teams is preferred but not essential.
• Ability to develop and design Planting Plans that respond to local ecology, climate, and long-term maintenance considerations.
• Recognised professional qualification in landscape architecture or a related discipline (e.g., accredited degree, chartership or working towards chartership).
• Strong digital skills with design and documentation tools (e.g., CAD/BIM software, Adobe Creative Suite, 3D visualization tools).
• Excellent communication, presentation, and report-writing abilities, with confidence in client-facing and stakeholder engagement settings.
• Demonstrated commitment to sustainable and regenerative design, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.