Design Lead

Our client, a high-growth global intelligence and data provider, is seeking an experienced and strategically minded (mid/senior level) designer to help own and elevate the brand across every touchpoint. As our brand guardian, you will lead the creation of high-quality visual assets spanning marketing collateral, editorial reports, sales materials, digital campaigns, events, and product/website design.

This is a hands-on design role for someone who loves crafting premium, professional, highly polished creative for a global B2B audience. You’ll collaborate closely with marketing, sales, editorial, and product teams to ensure visual consistency, brand impact, and exceptional creative execution. You will coordinate external suppliers where necessary. Any AV editing skills are a strong bonus.

This role blends creativity, technical skill, and strategic thinking – ideal for a designer who wants real ownership, influence, and visibility within a growing organisation.

This is an ideal opportunity for a mid-designer ready to step up, or a senior designer seeking a part‑time role with autonomy, visibility, and real creative influence.

Key Responsibilities

Brand & Creative Ownership

• Act as the primary guardian of brand identity across all channels.
• Maintain and evolve our visual guidelines, templates, and creative standards.
• Ensure brand consistency across digital, print, events, and editorial output.

Marketing & Sales Collateral

• Design marketing assets including brochures, emails, banners, presentations, and social graphics.
• Create visually compelling sales collateral, pitch decks, proposals, and product one-pagers.
• Support campaign launches with high-quality visuals and creative concepts.

Editorial & Report Design

• Lead the design and layout of editorial reports, data publications, insight and analysis pieces.
• Collaborate with content teams to translate complex data or analysis into clear, premium visual storytelling.

Event Creative

• Produce event branding including stage assets, signage, agendas, sponsorship packs, and digital promo materials.
• Work with the Events team to ensure every touchpoint feels premium and consistent with the brand.

Website & Digital Product Support

• Collaborate with product teams on UI/UX updates, visual enhancements, and design consistency.
• Assist with website graphics, landing pages, imagery, icons, and user-facing visual elements.
• Support wireframing and layout improvements where required.

Design Production & Workflow

• Manage multiple design briefs and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Develop and maintain an organised asset library and template system.
• Liaise with external suppliers where needed (e.g., printers, freelancers, videographers).

Motion & AV (Bonus)

• Create short promotional videos, animations, or motion graphics for marketing campaigns and events.
• Edit simple video and audio content for social media, product promotion, or internal comms.

Required Experience and Skills

• 3+ years of experience as a designer (agency or in‑house), ideally within B2B, media, SaaS, or professional services.
• Strategic mindset – able to collaborate with leadership to translate business priorities into compelling visual narratives.
• Strong layout, typography, and brand design capabilities across print and digital.
• End‑to‑end production capability – confident managing projects from concept through to final delivery.
• Highly organised communicator with strong stakeholder management and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Detail‑oriented – consistently delivers precise, high‑quality creative across multiple channels in a fast‑paced B2B environment.
• Proactive self‑starter – able to manage workload independently while thriving in a collaborative team.

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing long-form editorial or data-led reports (data visualisation).
• Motion graphics, video editing, or animation skills (Premiere Pro / After Effects).
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), with working knowledge of Figma or similar tools.
• Familiarity with CMS platforms, UI/UX principles, or simple web design tasks.

Why Join Us

• Lead our design: Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our brand and new internal design function.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid model: 2 days in our Central London office, 1 day remote.
• Time Off & Wellbeing: 15 days annual leave + your birthday off, competitive pension scheme, Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential support, perks platform with discounts and rewards, paid personal and group volunteering. Annual charitable donations from company profits.
• Culture & Environment: A bright, spacious office with breakout spaces, a library, and social areas including pool, darts, and table tennis. We offer a collaborative, values-led culture built around Real People, Real Relationships, Real Intelligence, and Real Impact.