Visual Communications Designer in London

We are looking for a Visual Communications Designer to join our in‐house Visual Communication team. This is a unique opportunity to work on high‐impact design initiatives across multidisciplinary projects. The role will be based from the London office with hybrid working.

Key Duties

• Deliver high‐quality visual communications for project outputs, including presentations, reports, infographics, illustrations, and digital media.
• Work within project briefs and brand guidelines, adapting to client or project‐specific requirements as needed.
• Contribute to creative concept development, bringing ideas and solutions to project teams with confidence.
• Collaborate with the Senior Designer and Team Lead to maintain consistent high‐level creative standards across deliverables.
• Operate as a chargeable resource – accurately recording time against project codes, estimating own time and supporting the team's commercial visibility.
• Proactively engage with project teams and discipline leads, attending project meetings and contributing to scoping conversations.
• Explore and apply AI and emerging design tools to improve efficiency and output quality.
• Support junior team members where relevant, sharing knowledge and contributing to a culture of craft and quality.

Skills & Experience

• Experience in graphic design or visual communication, ideally within a professional services, consultancy, or built environment context.
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop); Figma experience desirable.
• Solid skills across print and digital design: layout, typography, data visualisation, and information design.
• Solid skills in colour theory and application of colour.
• Experience in sketching and illustration is highly desirable.
• Experience in motion and animation is highly desirable.
• Experience working within brand guidelines and design systems across multiple output types.
• Good written and verbal communication – confident taking and refining a brief.
• A degree or equivalent qualification in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related field.
• Desirable: Experience in or genuine enthusiasm for the architecture, engineering, urban planning, or built environment sectors.
• Desirable: Familiarity with working in a fee‐earning or chargeable environment where time is tracked to project codes.
• Desirable: Experience in motion graphics, animation (After Effects), or 3D visualisation.
• Desirable: Interest in or working knowledge of AI design tools (e.g. GPT Images 2.0, Nano Banana Pro, generative workflows).

What we offer you

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development – learning and development programme and entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• A supportive and inclusive environment that welcomes diversity.