Project Lead

* Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of EDEN projects, ensuring that scopes, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, review points, risks, and decisions are clearly documented and actively managed. * Serve as a primary project contact for dedicated clients or partners, maintaining clear communication, managing expectations, and building trust through reliable execution. * Develop a strong working understanding of the partner’s business, site portfolio, strategic priorities, constraints, decision-making structure, and near-term opportunities for collaboration. * Lead project scoping, including proposal scope, deliverables, timelines, staffing assumptions, fee logic, exclusions, dependencies, and required technical, scientific, or design review. * Convert client needs and expectations into clear internal project goals, success criteria, workstreams, deliverables, schedules, responsibilities, and execution plans. * Own the project gates process for partner projects, ensuring proposal readiness, project briefing, execution planning, scope management, delivery finalization, and closeout are documented, coordinated, and completed. * Coordinate with technical, scientific, design, research, product, narrative, and communications leads to ensure project commitments are feasible, appropriately staffed, accurately represented, and delivered through a planned process. * Protect internal staff time and project quality by managing scope, handoffs, review points, decision records, risks, changes, and issue escalation throughout the project lifecycle. * Maintain project management systems, meeting cadences, action trackers, documentation practices, and internal communication structures that allow interdisciplinary teams to execute effectively. * Capture lessons learned, reusable assets, process improvements, communication opportunities, and candidates for technical translation into the EDEN tech stack. * Support the identification and development of future project opportunities within the partnership by delivering successful work, communicating EDEN’s value clearly, and maintaining a strong understanding of partner needs.

* Maintain a strong, trusted working relationship with dedicated partners through consistent communication, reliable execution, and clear expectation management. * Develop a working understanding of each partner’s business priorities, site portfolio, internal decision-making structure, constraints, and near-term project opportunities. * Ensure partner projects are translated from open-ended needs or opportunities into clearly scoped, executable project plans with defined deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, assumptions, exclusions, and review points. * Own the coordination and delivery rhythm for partner projects, ensuring that internal teams, technical leads, design stakeholders, and leadership are aligned at each major project gate. * Maintain project discipline across the partnership by actively managing scope, decisions, risks, dependencies, changes, feedback, and issue escalation. * Ensure project work is delivered on time, within agreed scope, and to a standard that strengthens the broader partner relationship. * Build repeatable project operating systems for the partnership, including meeting cadences, action trackers, decision logs, documentation structures, review workflows, and closeout processes. * Protect internal team capacity and delivery quality by identifying misalignment, scope creep, unclear ownership, or unresolved dependencies early. * Capture lessons learned, reusable project assets, process improvements, and technical translation opportunities from each partner engagement. * Support the development of future project opportunities by identifying partner needs, communicating EDEN’s value clearly, and connecting successful delivery to future portfolio growth.

* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, ecology, environmental design, engineering, business, project management, or a related field. * 5+ years of experience leading complex projects, interdisciplinary delivery teams, client-facing engagements, design projects, strategic initiatives, or project-based consulting work. * Demonstrated experience managing project delivery with accountability for scope, timelines, communication, delivery quality, expectation management, and internal coordination. * Strong project scoping and documentation skills, including the ability to define deliverables, timelines, assumptions, exclusions, workstreams, dependencies, review points, decision records, and closeout criteria. * Experience managing project risks, scope changes, handoffs, timelines, internal dependencies, client feedback, and issue escalation. * Ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams, including designers, computational designers, researchers, scientists, product teams, and executive stakeholders. * Technical fluency sufficient to understand computational design workflows, analytical methods, design optimization, data-driven deliverables, and the constraints of technical production. * Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex ecological, design, and technical concepts to external partners. * Excellent organizational judgment, with the ability to convert ambiguous opportunities into structured project plans and executable scopes. * Demonstrated ability to maintain clear project operating systems, including meetings, trackers, documentation, milestones, review processes, and accountability structures. * Ability to operate in a small, fast-moving, interdisciplinary team where processes are still being built and roles may evolve. * Strong sense of ownership and accountability for project delivery, internal coordination, and client trust.

* Experience in architecture, landscape architecture, real estate development, environmental planning, ecological design, climate technology, design technology, or adjacent AEC industries. * Experience working with developers, municipalities, design firms, landowners, or institutional partners on site-based design or planning projects. * Familiarity with computational design, geospatial analysis, ecological modeling, environmental analytics, simulation workflows, or design optimization. * Experience developing proposals, scopes of work, client presentations, project briefs, schedules, project trackers, and project management systems. * Experience managing recurring client work, account-based project portfolios, or long-term partnerships where individual projects contribute to a broader relationship. * Experience working in hybrid organizations that combine consulting, design services, research, and product development. * Interest in ecology, regenerative design, environmental performance, resilient landscapes, and the role of technology in shaping the built environment.

* Technical fluency with computational design workflows used in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, environmental planning, or adjacent AEC contexts. * Familiarity with data-driven design processes, including site analysis, scenario testing, spatial optimization, performance modeling, simulation workflows, and analytical deliverables. * Working knowledge of GIS workflows, including spatial data organization, geospatial analysis, map-based communication, site constraints mapping, and interpretation of publicly available planning or environmental datasets. * Ability to coordinate technical work across computational designers, GIS specialists, ecologists, landscape architects, architects, product teams, and external project stakeholders. * Comfort translating technical, ecological, and design analysis into project scopes, client-facing deliverables, internal workplans, schedules, assumptions, and review processes. * Familiarity with planning, environmental, zoning, entitlement, permitting, or compliance workflows that shape site-based design and development projects. * Ability to understand and manage technical dependencies, data requirements, review gates, model limitations, analytical assumptions, and production constraints. * Familiarity with compliance-oriented project documentation, including assumptions, exclusions, decision records, risk logs, approval pathways, and closeout criteria. * Ability to evaluate whether proposed technical approaches are appropriately scoped, resourced, documented, and aligned with client expectations. * Working understanding of how computational design, GIS, ecological analysis, environmental performance metrics, and regulatory constraints can inform master planning, preliminary site design, and partner decision-making.

* Interdisciplinary thinker who is comfortable working across architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, computation, planning, product, and business strategy. * Curiosity-driven approach to unfamiliar problems, with a willingness to learn new technical, ecological, regulatory, and client-specific contexts quickly. * Strong communicator who can translate complex ideas between technical teams, design teams, leadership, and external partners. * Systems-oriented mindset, with the ability to understand how project scope, client needs, technical workflows, team capacity, timelines, and commercial priorities connect. * Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong follow-through on decisions, action items, documentation, risks, and deadlines. * Comfortable operating in ambiguity while creating the structure needed to move projects toward clear decisions and deliverables. * Collaborative and low-ego, with the judgment to bring the right people into the right conversations at the right time. * Commercially aware, with an understanding that strong delivery, clear communication, and disciplined execution directly support long-term partnership health. * Proactive in identifying risks, gaps, dependencies, and opportunities before they become blockers. * Stong sense of ownership and accountability for both project outcomes and the quality of the partner relationship.