Senior Designer in London

On Board Experiential (OBE) is an award-winning, full-service, experience-led agency that creates meaningful brand experiences worldwide, with office locations in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and NYC. We help brands to cut through the noise, capture consumer attention, and leave lasting impressions that live beyond the shareable, streamable, screamable moment. We are specialists in creating extraordinary brand events – immersive, engaging, and unrivalled.

THE ROLE

The Senior Designer plays a key role in shaping and delivering bold, audience-led experiences across live events, brand activations, and immersive environments. Working closely with the account and wider project teams, they are responsible for translating strategic thinking into compelling creative concepts and high-quality design execution from initial idea through to delivery. As a Senior Designer, you will help bring brands to life through powerful, memorable experiences. You will lead creative thinking, craft standout design, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver work that resonates in the real world.

SUMMARY OF POSITION

The Senior Designer is an integral member of OBE London’s Creative offer, working to create immersive in-person experiences for a range of brands. This consists of driving the design process, integrating with the wider agency, and collaborating with internal and external cross-functional teams to ensure client needs are being met with premium design ideas and creative solutions. The Senior Designer will be a critical component in the generation of 360 marketing campaigns, developing art direction and new branding, driving production art, and participating in all aspects of the creative process.

The hands-on nature of event marketing work requires a willingness to observe, adapt, research, explore, execute, revise, and refine creative elements in a fast-paced environment. The Senior Designer will embrace interdisciplinary creative projects, multi-task with ease, have an insatiable appetite for design, thrive when working with top-notch brands, and have an excellent attitude that inspires others.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design development of experiential concepts across live events such as athletic brand activations, festivals, exhibitions, pop-ups, and international roadshows.
• Translate strategic briefs into strong visual ideas, spatial concepts, and audience-led experiences.
• Produce high-quality design outputs across 2D layouts, graphics, and digital touchpoints (3D and motion not required, but a plus).
• Collaborate closely with Account Teams, Production Teams, Leadership, Creative Partners, and the OBE Worldwide Creative Department.
• Present ideas confidently to internal teams and clients, articulating creative rationale and design intent.
• Ensure creative work is delivered on-brand, on-brief, on-time, and within budget.
• Stay informed on trends in experiential design, culture, technology, materials, and emerging formats.
• Develop scalable creative systems and toolkits that can be rolled out across regions, formats, and venues.
• Work closely with global brand teams to interpret guidelines and evolve them within experiential environments.
• Create clear design documentation and agency presentations to support global rollout and stakeholder alignment.
• Support pitch work for global clients, contributing to big ideas, visual storytelling, and presentation design.
• Anticipate cultural, regional, and audience considerations when designing experiences for international markets.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in experiential, brand, or spatial design (agency background preferred).
• Strong portfolio demonstrating concept-led experiential work and end-to-end project involvement.
• Excellent understanding of branding, storytelling, and audience engagement in physical and hybrid spaces.
• Bonus Points: exposure to or working knowledge of 3D tools such as SketchUp, Rhino, Cinema 4D, Blender, or similar.
• Experience working with production drawings, suppliers, and fabrication partners.
• Ability to think strategically while executing with strong attention to detail.

About the Person

• Conceptually strong and creatively driven, with a passion for ideas, craft, and fresh, disruptive thinking.
• A confident communicator and collaborator who builds strong relationships with colleagues and clients alike.
• Highly organised, proactive, and detail-oriented.
• Calm under pressure and solutions-focused, demonstrating high-level problem-solving skills.
• An aspiring leader and natural mentor who enjoys supporting and developing junior team members.
• Passionate about brand and experiential marketing within the sports and entertainment space.
• Confident in using and championing agency project-management platforms and administrative best practices.

PACKAGE

• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: 37.5 hours a week
• Location: Hybrid, London, minimum of 3 office days a week
• Holiday: 25 days annual leave (pro rata), Bank Holidays & time off in lieu for every weekend day worked
• Pension contribution
• Flexi Friday and hybrid working policy
• Professional development and training
• Approaches to wellness and physical activity

Application Process

We treat all applications on a level playing field; we are striving to create a diverse team that shares different cultures, backgrounds, and experiences to inform and enhance the campaigns we create.