WRA is seeking a Landscape Architecture Director to lead our Landscape Architecture Group within our interdisciplinary Riverscapes and Shorelines Team. The desired candidate will collaborate and engage both internally and externally to lead, support, and deliver a diverse range of design projects focused primarily on ecological restoration, with the capability to support parks and open space and community resilience projects as needed.

You will join our team of restoration design professionals and scientists, including engineers, landscape architects, fluvial geomorphologists, hydrologists, and ecologists. Our projects span a variety of ecosystems and types across California including San Francisco Bay tidal marshes and living shorelines, Sierra Nevada meadow restoration, Northern California Coast floodplain and salmonid restoration, California Central Coast estuary restoration, and Bay Area and Southern California urban stream rehabilitation. Additionally, our team is actively growing and pursuing restoration work in Oregon. We are passionate about restoring riverine and coastal systems that support healthy and resilient natural and human communities, and are invested in the entire restoration process from initial site selection to performance monitoring and adaptive management. We also frequently collaborate with our parks and open space and community resilience teams to integrate ecological restoration with recreation and educational opportunities such as trails, gathering spaces, and interpretive features, as well as tackling challenges such as sea-level rise and wildfire resiliency.

WRA has a diverse portfolio of projects and clients, including decades-long private clients, public agencies, and non-profit organizations. In addition to our technical expertise, we help clients meet their goals and visions by providing grant fund cultivation, preparing financial models, partnering with investors, engaging stakeholders, and facilitation services.

We envision you working in-person at one of our San Francisco Bay Area offices or in a hybrid arrangement or remote location in this region of California. Other locations may be considered on a case by case basis. Regardless of your work arrangement, in-person, remote, or hybrid, you will be excited to collaborate with staff in many technical disciplines across the company.

At WRA, you will have 3 major areas of impact: