Senior Garden Designer / Landscape Architect

Location: Notting Hill, London. Hybrid working, with a minimum of two days per week in the studio. Projects in London, across the UK and internationally.

Role: Full-time. Salary: Negotiable based on experience. Start date: As soon as possible.

Harry Holding Studio is an international landscape and garden design studio based in London and Hay-on-Wye. We shape atmospheric, abundant places: rich, layered landscapes that feel like heightened versions of nature itself. Our work is plant-driven and ecologically minded, using local, sustainable materials and innovative planting to create bold, immersive and enduring spaces. Founded by Harry Holding in 2016, the studio works across a wide spectrum, from high-end private gardens and country estates to public and commercial landscapes.

Recent work includes The Eden Project: Bring Me Sunshine Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026, winner of the Environmental Innovation Award, which is now becoming a 1.6-acre community garden at the new Eden Project Morecambe. Harry is named one of House & Gardens Top 25 Garden & Landscape Designers and listed in Spear’s 500. The studio was Pro Landscaper’s Sustainability & Biodiversity Garden Design Studio of the Year, and our work is regularly recognised by the RHS and the Society of Garden & Landscape Designers (SGLD).

The studio is growing, and this is a pivotal hire as we build for the future.

The role: We are looking for an experienced, multi-skilled Senior Garden Designer / Landscape Architect to take a leading role in the studio: running projects end to end, delivering design quality, and helping shape how we work and grow. You will lead high-end residential and commercial projects from concept through detailed design to on-site delivery, manage client, contractor and supplier relationships, and line-manage and mentor our designers. We work across the UK and internationally, so the role will involve travel, particularly as the studio grows and evolves.

Growing with the studio: This is a senior designer role first and foremost. For the right person, there is scope for it to grow, taking on more responsibility over time, including a leading role in our London studio as it develops.

We are looking for someone with:

• A degree, diploma or equivalent qualification in garden design or landscape architecture (CMLI welcome, but not essential).
• 6-8+ years’ experience delivering high-quality projects in practice.
• Excellent design ability, from concept through to construction detail.
• Strong horticultural and planting knowledge, with a passion for naturalistic, ecological planting.
• Proficiency in Vectorworks, SketchUp, the Adobe Creative Suite and Google Workspace.
• A people person: the interpersonal skills to run projects, manage clients and mentor the team.
• The confidence to run projects independently.
• A keen interest in growing the studio and evolving the role over time.
• A clean UK driving licence, and the right to work in the UK.

What we offer:

• A competitive salary, dependent on experience.
• Discretionary bonus, with profit share possible for the right candidate.
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, and your birthday off, with additional leave that increases with length of service.
• Flexible working: studio hours 9-6 (variable with project workload), hybrid with a minimum of two days in our Notting Hill studio.
• Company laptop and phone, if required.
• An enhanced CPD and training programme, plus studio research trips to explore exceptional gardens and planting.
• A pivotal role in a growing, ambitious design studio, with room to grow as it develops.

Closing date: Friday 19 June 2026.