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# Designer at OXMAN

- **Company:** OXMAN
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $110k–$165k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oxman/a4ba390a-0efa-417e-9365-e65265968aa9/application

**Skills:** Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketching, Drawing, Rendering, Diagramming, Modeling, Ecological design, Systems thinking, Performance-driven design processes

> OXMAN is seeking a Designer to join the EDEN team, focusing on nature-centric design and ecological performance. The role involves collaborating on spatial strategies, generating iterative visual concepts, and translating complex environmental data into clear representations for large-scale developments.

## Job description

## OXMAN

OXMAN is a nature-based research and design company based in Manhattan. We incubate ventures and technologies that reimagine the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Working across disciplines—from architecture and ecology to materials science and computation, we develop nature-centric solutions to critical environmental challenges.

## EDEN

Nature provides humanity with services that are critical for survival: the sequestration of carbon, the filtration of water, and the production of the air we breathe. EDEN works to strengthen and regenerate these natural processes by cultivating biodiverse, resilient ecosystems that sustain life for all species—human and non-human alike. EDEN is a digital design environment for engineering and designing ecosystems, modeling the flows, relationships, and processes that sustain them. We build tools that quantify how landscapes can be engineered to achieve specific performance goals, cooling cities, filtering water, sequestering carbon, and protecting key species, and use them to guide the design of ecologically active sites. One hectare of well-designed landscape can sequester up to four times the annual emissions of an average home, filter enough water to support thirteen neighborhoods, and reduce ambient temperatures by more than ten degrees. EDEN enables designers to plan intentionally for these outcomes through analysis, simulation, and optimization, turning ecological function into an actionable design parameter. Our design team works directly with clients to apply these tools toward site-specific goals, from logistics campuses and residential communities to rewilding and climate-resilient developments. Together with our clients, we are designing biodiverse, productive environments that serve both humanity and nature.

## Role Overview

OXMAN is seeking an architect or landscape architect with exceptional design sensibilities and outstanding representation skills to join the EDEN design team. This role is for a designer who moves fluidly between rigorous spatial thinking and expressive visual communication, and who can rapidly translate complex ideas into clear, compelling visuals that drive projects forward. A successful candidate does not simply document a project, but actively constructs its narrative and spatial logic through drawing, diagramming, and visualization. They are comfortable working iteratively and at speed, producing sketches, diagrams, and renderings that distill core ideas and give form to new environments. The ideal candidate thrives in non-linear, research-driven design processes and is excited to work across a range of scales and project types, from urban parks to large-scale industrial and residential developments. Each project demands both conceptual clarity and precise design articulation, with an emphasis on integrating ecological performance into spatial design.

## Key Responsibilities

- Collaborate with architects, landscape architects, and computational designers to design nature-centric developments, including industrial campuses, residential communities, and urban interventions.
- Develop spatial strategies and typologies that integrate built and living systems, dissolving conventional boundaries between human and non-human environments.
- Rapidly generate and iterate on design concepts through sketching, diagramming, and modeling, clearly communicating core ideas at each stage of a project.
- Produce high-quality visual materials—plans, sections, diagrams, renderings, and physical/digital models—that synthesize complex ecological and spatial relationships into accessible narratives.
- Translate environmental performance data (e.g., carbon sequestration, water filtration, thermal regulation) provided by our computational designers into spatial design decisions and visual frameworks.
- Contribute to the development of a coherent visual and representational language for EDEN projects across scales and typologies.
- Support the development of design guidelines, toolkits, and reusable frameworks that extend across multiple projects.

## Key Requirements

- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in an architecture or landscape architecture practice.
- Advanced degree or equivalent professional experience in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or a related field.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual design thinking and exceptional representation skills across multiple media (sketching, drawing, rendering, diagramming).
- Proven ability to work quickly and iteratively, producing clear and compelling visuals under tight timelines.
- Proficiency in Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Strong planning skills across multiple scales.
- Ability to synthesize complex environmental, technical, and spatial data into clear design logic and visual communication.
- Interest in or experience with ecological design, systems thinking, or performance-driven design processes.
- Strong collaborative mindset and comfort working in interdisciplinary teams.

## Key Goals and Outcomes

- Shape the design of large-scale developments to be measurably more ecological, resilient, and regenerative.
- Help define and evolve EDEN’s design and representation language—how ecological systems are visualized and communicated.
- Contribute to a new model of practice that integrates design, science, and technology into a unified workflow.
- Deliver impactful, visually compelling work that communicates complex ideas to clients, collaborators, and broader audiences.
- Contribute to projects that directly affect climate resilience, biodiversity, and the future of human–nature relationships.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Applications that do not include uploads or active/working links to portfolios of work will not be considered.

## About OXMAN

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OXMAN is a design company fusing design, technology, and biology to invent multi-scale products and environments that empower synergy between Nature and humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup/Early Stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (787 Eleventh Ave)
- **Founded**: 2024 (public launch)
- **Founders**: Neri Oxman

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Design Services, Biotechnology, Materials Science, Architecture
- Target customers: B2B (corporate partners, industry clients), Academia, and Nature as a "co-client"
- Mission or purpose statement: To shift from human-centric design to Nature-centric design, creating design solutions by, for, and with Nature while advancing humanity. The company aims to heal the rift between Nature and humanity.

## Products & Services
- **O° Shoe (The O Shoe)**: A 100% biodegradable shoe made without petrochemicals, producing zero microplastics. Unveiled in October 2024. Represents the company's platform technology applied to consumer goods.
- **Platform Technologies**: R&D arm that invents platform technologies enabling design and production "by, for, and with Nature." These platforms can be applied across industries and scales—from consumer goods to urban plans, pharmaceuticals to apparel, organisms to rockets.
- **Design & Consulting Services**: Activist design practice that partners with industry and academia to implement Nature-centric values across design, manufacturing, construction, and operational practices.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goodman Group (partnership to explore design for ecosystem biodiversity and resilience), Foster + Partners (designed the OXMAN lab in NYC)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~24 employees (+4.5% YoY growth); active job postings; public launch in October 2024 with significant press coverage; first product (O° Shoe) unveiled; partnership with major real estate group Goodman Group

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder & Brand**: Founded by Neri Oxman, a world-renowned designer, architect, and former MIT Media Lab professor, giving the company immense credibility and a powerful network.
- **Interdisciplinary Approach**: Uniquely combines hardware, software, and "wetware" (biology) in a single practice, integrating an atelier, workshop, and lab.
- **Nature-Centric Design Philosophy**: A radical differentiator positioning Nature as a "co-client," moving beyond sustainability toward regeneration and synergy.
- **Platform Technologies**: Cross-scale, hierarchical design tools that can be applied across multiple industries, creating a defensible IP moat.
- **First Mover in Biodegradable Materials**: The O° Shoe is a tangible proof point of their platform's capability, addressing the massive microplastics problem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Development**: Scaling their platform technologies for broader industry application across multiple sectors.
- **Partnerships**: Leading corporate partners in implementing Nature-centric values across their operations (e.g., Goodman Group).
- **Product Commercialization**: Bringing the O° Shoe and other bio-integrated products to market.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Building a world-class interdisciplinary team of designers, engineers, scientists, and makers.
- **Thought Leadership**: Advancing the "Nature-centric design" philosophy as a new paradigm for the design and construction industries.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: A clear, bold vision to heal the rift between Nature and humanity. Work is framed as a "calling" with profound impact.
- **Interdisciplinary Excellence**: Opportunity to work at the intersection of design, engineering, biology, and computation with a world-class team.
- **Creative & Intellectual Freedom**: Emphasis on taking risks, exploring "impossible" challenges, and pursuing profound questions.
- **Values**: The company culture emphasizes integrity, empathy, mediation of dichotomies (design/R&D, made/grown), balancing the timely and timeless, and pursuing the profound.
- **Work Environment**: Based in a first-of-its-kind atelier, workshop, and lab in New York City, designed by Foster + Partners.
- **Team Composition**: Small (~24 people), highly specialized team with backgrounds from MIT Media Lab, top universities, and leading design/tech firms. Emphasis on self-direction and collaboration across disciplines.
- **Location**: New York City (HQ) with presence in France. Hybrid/office policy not explicitly stated but likely in-person given the lab/workshop nature.

## Sources
1. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/company)
2. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/mission)
3. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxman)
5. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oxman-unveils-the-o-shoe---a-100-biodegradable-shoe-made-without-petrochemicals-producing-zero-microplastics-302290648.html)
6. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/neri-oxman-launches-oxman-a-revolutionary-practice-transforming-design-generation-manufacturing-and-construction-for-the-simultaneous-benefit-of-humans-and-the-natural-environment-302264818.html)
7. [fosterandpartners.com](https://www.fosterandpartners.com/news/foster-partners-and-neri-oxman-complete-the-groundbreaking-design-and-innovation-lab-for-oxman)
8. [goodman.com](https://www.goodman.com/news/2024/oxman-partnership)

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