Senior Wayfinding Designer

Agency Bell; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Agency Bell is seeking a Senior Wayfinding Designer to lead design across wayfinding, placemaking, and visual identity. You will take concepts through to on-site delivery, guiding projects from strategy to signs and spaces.

Join a collaborative studio with a global reach and a focus on accessible design. You will mentor junior designers, manage budgets, and coordinate with clients, architects, and contractors to deliver thoughtful, user-centered environments.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of wayfinding and environmental design projects.
• Experience leading design work from concept to delivery, including budgeting.
• Ability to manage clients and oversee on-site teams.
• Mentor junior designers and lead a project team.
• Excellent presentation and collaboration with architects and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Produce and deliver design systems, guidelines, drawings, and specs at conceptual, tender and construction stages.
• Turn research and strategy into user-friendly wayfinding design.
• Design across environments with emphasis on accessibility and practicality.
• Collaborate with 3D designers, architects, clients, and contractors.
• Present ideas clearly to internal teams and clients.
• Manage multiple projects and mentor Junior team members.
• Contribute to bids and tender documents.
• Join a friendly, professional and committed team.

Skills

Wayfinding design

Project leadership

Client management

Mentoring juniors

Accessibility-minded design

Tools

Revit

Signagent

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Title: Senior Wayfinding Designer

Job Type: Perm

Job Hours: Full time

Location: Hybrid

Salary range: £45 - 55k

The speed read:

A Branded Environments team within an international Architecture and Design studio are looking for a highly experienced and motivated Senior Wayfinding Designer who can help people find their way - and make the journey look good while they’re at it. You’ll lead design work across wayfinding, placemaking, and visual identity, from early concepts to on-site delivery. Basically: strategy, signs, spaces - all tied together beautifully.

The facts:

You’ve found your niche in wayfinding design and have a portfolio full of projects that showcase this. You’ve likely worked with organisations such as museums and galleries, services such as train stations, airports, schemes for residential developments, office signage systems or any other environments where people need to find their way around.

You’re passionate about people, access, and inclusion - you design with everyone in mind. But your skills don’t stop at design, you’re great at understanding the scope of a project, planning it (including budgeting), strategizing, managing clients, and overseeing the work in the studio.

You’ll be a proven leader in this sector and will enjoy managing a team to produce great work.

You’ll be:

• Producing, supervising and delivering design systems, guidelines, drawings, and specifications at the conceptual, tender and construction stages.
• Turning research and strategy into thoughtful, user-friendly design
• Designing across environments- not just pretty, but purposeful
• Collaborating with 3D designers, architects, clients, and contractors
• Presenting ideas clearly (and convincingly) to both internal teams and clients
• Managing multiple projects and mentoring Junior members of the team
• Involved in the generation of bids and tender documents.
• Joining a friendly, professional and committed team.

You’ll have:

• A keen eye for design and passion for creating design systems.
• A portfolio full of smart, well-executed wayfinding and environmental design
• Strong typography and layout skills (and you know your way around a floorplan)
• Confidence in navigating both creative reviews and construction sites
• A good handle on accessibility, materials, and real-world application
• Fluent Adobe Creative Suite skills and solid attention to detail
• An understanding of Revit and be able to oversee projects in this tool
• Experience using Signagent is a bonus
• Excellent communication - visual, verbal, and written

Applicants must be living in and have the right to work in the UK