Visual Communications Designer

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.

Team overview

We are the creative intelligence behind Buro Happold’s visual communications across projects. As an award‑winning team, we fuse design strategy with engineering insight to craft visuals that are not only clear – but compelling, beautiful, and bold. We don’t just support delivery – we shape it. We are visual storytellers, systems thinkers, and creative catalysts. Our work inspires understanding, drives decisions, and elevates the experience of every project.

Key Duties

• Deliver high‑quality visual communications outputs for projects, 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 their own time and supporting the team’s commercial visibility.
• Proactively engage with project teams and discipline leads, attending project meetings and actively 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.

Your skills and experience

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

What we offer you

• Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
• 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 (5% employer contribution).
• 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.
• 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 will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that, wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual’s flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers. Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions. Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.