UK - Senior Designer in London

Join us in our purpose of getting every team on a mission to actually do business better. At businessfourzero, a Heidrick & Struggles Company, we make purpose‐led growth a reality. We align executive teams around bold strategies, galvanize their people, and embed lasting change into the culture, behaviours, and capabilities of their business.

We are looking to add a Senior Designer to our UK team. This position is located in London and is a full‐time, in‐office (hybrid) role, with related travel as needed.

Your Impact

• Lead the way in design: setting and steering the creative vision across projects, translating strategy into compelling visual storytelling that drives real impact.
• Create distinctive, high‐impact design, mentoring others on craft and style, presenting confidently to stakeholders, and upholding exceptional creative quality throughout.
• Act as a strategic thought partner: collaborating closely with consulting teams and client leads to translate complex business challenges into powerful, experience‐led design solutions.
• Coach and mentor designers: inspiring and developing junior and mid‐level designers, providing constructive feedback, fostering growth, and building creative confidence across the team.
• Drive excellence across the full design journey: from shaping bold conceptual ideas through to refined execution across content, environments, and experience design.
• Champion the craft and culture of design: elevating the standard of creativity across the business, promoting best practice in storytelling, systems thinking, and visual expression.
• Advocate for design's impact: influencing clients and colleagues to see design as a driver of transformation, not just aesthetics.

Your Growth

• Gaining hands‐on experience in strategy, leadership, and culture consulting.
• Learning from brilliant team‐mates who will challenge and champion you.
• Building relationships with senior clients and their teams.
• Seeing your work make a real‐world difference.
• Contributing to a growing global team with the opportunity to shape our culture and approach.
• Receiving the opportunities, tools, and coaching to receive and deploy feedback in real time.
• Working in a culture of brilliance, candour, autonomy, and ambition – with a team ready to disrupt the consulting industry.

What You Bring

• 7–10 years' experience working across graphic design and experience design disciplines — from brand and data visualization to experience and spatial/exhibition design; with prior experience in a creative consultancy environment is highly‐valued.
• A deep understanding of multiple engagement principles — from editorial and environmental branding design to immersive exhibitions — along with strong design thinking, conceptual development, and experience design skills.
• Emotional intelligence that builds trust, uncovers insights, and understands what it takes to supercharge a team and drive behaviour change.
• A natural leader and mentor — energizing teams, providing direction, and nurturing emerging talent.
• Comfortable leading multiple workstreams while balancing creativity, structure, and delivery; able to multitask effectively across fast‐paced sprints and short‐timeline projects.
• Highly organized, articulate, and confident presenting creative ideas to both internal and client audiences.
• A business geek mindset: passionate about how big businesses work and the role of culture in driving commercial performance.
• Practical understanding of what will and won’t work in the real world.
• A strategic mindset — able to connect creative ideas to client goals, business strategy, and audience insight.
• Thriving in collaborative, cross‐functional environments and co‐creating with strategists, consultants, and marketing teams.
• Exceptional craft skills across Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign); familiarity with presentation tools is a plus.
• Impeccable eye for design detail with confidence in critique and feedback.
• Cut‐through communication skills, with a strong creative eye to design game‐changing experiences and materials.
• Obsessed with what’s new and next in design, technology, and culture — and how it can shape better human experiences.
• Expansive thinking to crack challenges, synthesize information clearly, and evoke the right emotions.