About the Role
Landor is seeking a Maternity Cover Senior Designer for their London studio. This role involves developing design strategies and creative solutions for medium to large-sized projects, leveraging client business knowledge and design expertise.
Responsibilities
- Consistently delivers strong thinking, craft, and accomplishments within the field of practice.
- Leads on conceptual exploration, including ideation, sketching, and research.
- Partners with internal teams and clients to establish direction and innovative design solutions, ensuring implementation from concept through production.
- Develops design ideas across integrated solutions that demonstrate a deep understanding of the target audience and can be applied across various channels.
- Confidently expresses a point of view, providing suggestions on their own work and the work of others.
- Supports and guides more junior team members to elevate creative solutions.
- Assists in evaluating and contributing to the development of competitive and innovative design strategies and plans.
- Confidently works across multiple projects, ensuring client needs are met to the highest standard.
- Collaborates with peers and partner groups to ensure project design continuity and overcome complex challenges.
- Interacts with colleagues and clients in a positive, professional, and motivating manner.
- Utilizes AI to maximize knowledge, inspiration, and efficiencies.
Requirements
- Experience in a similar role within a brand/design agency as a designer as part of a project team.
- Understands bold thinking and how it translates into design.
- Demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of design with strong creative excellence, conceptual thinking, and consistently developing innovative design ideas.
- Can confidently integrate a brand’s message, color, imagery, type, composition, and other assets and behaviors into deliverables.
- Can tell a compelling story and communicate a design strategy.
- Knowledge of current and upcoming creative and design trends.
- Awareness of trends in other industries, evolving cultural landscapes, and economic, political, and environmental trends that shape brand interaction.
- Passion for design, brand, and creative excellence.
- Strong technical skills with a range of creative software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Miro, AI tools, and similar.
- Ability to represent design thinking using traditional design tools and hand sketching.
- Proficiency in motion graphics and digital design.
- Experienced in leading the creation of impactful, cross-platform visual content.
Skills
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- Miro
- AI tools
- Motion graphics
- Digital design
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Maternity Cover
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Landor is part of WPP, a world-leading brand expert group with expansive strategic and creative capabilities.
- We make brands more valuable and less vulnerable by strategically joining design, experience, governance, and measurement capabilities.
- Landor companies include amp (sonic branding), bdg (workplace & architectural experts), Deep Local (creative technologists), and ManvsMachine (3D motion design).
- WPP is a trusted growth partner for leading brands, uniting media intelligence, data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel.
- WPP utilizes its agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
Equal Opportunity
- Landor, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer.
- We consider all applicants without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
- Committed to a culture of respect where everyone belongs and can progress in their careers.
