Job title: Senior Spatial / Experiential Designer
Reporting to: Design Director
Salary: Depending on Experience
Location: Shoreditch office based with flexible working where appropriate
Contact Type: Permanent / Full Time
As a Senior Spatial / Experiential Designer, you will be instrumental in developing creative design solutions across a broad range of projects, ensuring we deliver exceptional & immersive brand experiences and design for events and retail. You will bring broad experience across spatial, retail, experiential, and interior design. You will be adept at taking productions through all stages from concept and brief, through the pitch process, and overseeing activation and delivery.
You will have an eye for detail, high-end design experience, and understanding of brand and consumer experience. Being equally confident developing ideas and creative concepts as you are in 3D, we are looking for a creative designer and not just a visualiser, so we are keen to meet people who bring big ideas as well as technical skills.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Sit as a core part of the creative team owning spatial projects and events of all sizes and complexities
- Take a senior role on creative projects developing ground-breaking design concepts across a broad range of briefs
- Work closely with cross functional teams and directly with clients, leading projects, and building their trust and confidence at every stage
- Communicate ideas through mood imagery and description, honing creative concepts and inspiring others
- Build out ideas into 3D designs and visuals
- Work closely with cross functional teams across 2D and graphics, strategy, and account management teams to deliver excellence
- Collaborate with production and technical teams to ensure alignment with timelines and budgets, and that your design vision is honored through to implementation
- Develop inspiring creative presentations and pitches and sell these into clients
ABOUT YOU
- You will have a minimum of 6+ years experience working in a similar role
- You will have worked on major creative productions at the highest level and scale
- You will have an understanding of brand experiences, consumer journey, and design at the highest level
- You will have experience taking design projects from start to finish, from initial concept to final design & implementation
- You will have a high cultural radar with a finger on the pulse across all areas of art, design, music, and culture
- You will have a desire to drive innovation within the business, creating beautiful & impactful work that strives to make a difference environmentally and socially
- You will be experienced working in collaborative and multi-faceted teams
- You will be energetic and collaborative, as we value teamwork
- A commercial understanding of design and build, with skills to generate design concepts for brands that reinforce brand messages
- Proficient at the highest levels in Sketchup and Adobe Creative Suite
- Confident in using V Ray (or other rendering software)
- Experience in pulling together creative presentations – pitch experience would be ideal
- You will be motivated to push creative ideas as far as possible
- You will be pragmatic, realistic, and diligent, managing client expectations effectively while seeking alternative solutions
- You will have a solid understanding of build and production and the technical aspects of the design process
- You will be calm, organized, and meticulous with attention to detail
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Experience in managing junior creatives and freelancers