Senior Designer

Inizio; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Inizio is seeking a Senior Designer for the India Design Studio in Gurugram. You will lead high-value client-facing design work, set creative standards, and coach designers while ensuring craft and content quality across global teams.

You will translate complex content into persuasive, data-driven visual narratives and oversee brand governance, accessibility, and reusable design systems. This role blends hands-on design with strategic leadership.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience in presentation design, visual design or similar.
• Strong portfolio with complex pitches, RFPs, credentials and client-facing storytelling.
• Advanced PowerPoint and presentation-design capability; familiarity with Illustrator/Photoshop or Figma.
• Excellent visual storytelling, typography and information design skills.
• Experience coaching designers and reviewing work to raise quality without delays.
• Strong stakeholder management in an international environment.
• Understanding of brand governance, reusable asset systems and QA standards.
• Confident and responsible AI literacy and ethical usage of tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex proposals, RFP responses, pitch decks and other high-value client work.
• Translate strategic content into persuasive visual narratives and data stories.
• Provide creative direction and final design sign-off for priority work.
• Review outputs and give feedback on brand, accessibility and quality.
• Coach designers in presentation craft, data visualization and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate with business-unit leads to clarify briefs, scope and delivery expectations.
• Evolve templates, visual systems and asset libraries for global use.
• Identify recurring quality issues and improve briefs, workflows and onboarding.
• Apply approved AI tools responsibly to aid design without compromising craft.

Skills

Presentation design

Visual design

Graphic design

PowerPoint

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Think-cell

Data visualisation

Client-facing storytelling

Coaching designers

Stakeholder management

Brand governance

Accessibility

AI literacy

International collaboration

Tools

PowerPoint

Adobe Creative Cloud

Figma

Think-cell

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Designer is the Design Studio's senior craft and quality lead. You will remain hands-on in high-value work while setting creative standards, coaching designers and ensuring that Ignites connected expertise is expressed through clear, persuasive and distinctive client stories.

Role: Senior Designer - India Design Studio

Location: Gurugram, India

Team: India Design Studio

What you will do

• Lead complex proposals, RFP responses, pitch decks, credentials and other high-value client-facing design work.
• Translate strategic, scientific and commercial content into persuasive visual narratives, storylines, information structures and data stories.
• Provide creative direction and final design sign-off for priority, complex or high-risk work, while reinforcing that designers and business stakeholders retain accountability for their contributions and factual content.
• Review team outputs and provide clear, constructive feedback against brand, accessibility, storytelling and quality standards.
• Coach designers in presentation craft, information design, data visualisation, brand application, stakeholder engagement and responsible AI-enabled ways of working.
• Partner with business-unit spokes and workflow leads to clarify briefs, shape scope, estimate effort and agree realistic quality and delivery expectations.
• Protect and evolve Inizio Ignite templates, visual systems, reusable components, iconography, data-visualisation patterns and asset libraries.
• Identify recurring quality issues and opportunities to improve briefs, workflows, QA checks, onboarding and knowledge sharing.
• Use approved AI tools responsibly for understanding, restructuring, exploration, asset discovery and QA, and help the team apply them without compromising craft, confidentiality or accountability.
• Contribute to the growth of the Design Studio by demonstrating its value, strengthening global relationships and helping the team scale effective practices.

About you

Your skills and experience

• At least 6 years of experience in presentation design, visual design, graphic design or a similar creative role, ideally in healthcare, life sciences, consulting, professional services or an agency environment.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating complex pitches, proposals, RFPs, credentials, information design, data visualisation and client-facing storytelling.
• Advanced PowerPoint and presentation-design capability, with strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma or similar tools; Think-cell or other charting tools would be advantageous.
• Excellent visual storytelling, layout, typography, information design, data visualisation and design-system skills.
• Experience coaching designers, reviewing work and raising quality without creating unnecessary delay or dependency.
• Strong stakeholder management, scoping, prioritisation and problem-solving skills in an international environment.
• Strong understanding of brand governance, accessibility, reusable asset systems, document QA and final-delivery standards.
• Confident and responsible AI literacy, with the judgement to decide when AI adds value and when human-led craft is required.
• The confidence to challenge unclear content, unrealistic expectations or work that does not meet client-facing standards.

Ideal profile

• You are a confident design leader who combines strategic storytelling with strong execution.
• You can raise quality, make pragmatic decisions and keep priority work moving.
• You enjoy developing people, building standards and creating a culture of shared accountability.
• You are motivated to shape a new global Design Studio and strengthen how Ignite brings its connected advisory proposition to market.

Further information

This is a full-time role and is expected to follow a hybrid working pattern, based at our Inizio location in Gurugram. The role will support global teams across time zones, so flexibility to work within agreed UK- and US-aligned collaboration windows may be required. The exact reporting line, working pattern and hours will be confirmed during the recruitment process.