Senior Designer – Maternity Cover

Company: The Branding Journal
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Location: London
Job Description:

Landor is looking for a Maternity Cover Senior Designer to join our London studio. Could this be you?

What you’ll do

A Senior Designer at Landor will work on medium to large sized projects, using knowledge of their client’s business and challenges, along with their expertise, to develop a design strategy to deliver the best possible creative solutions.

Job Responsibilities

  • Consistently delivers strong thinking, craft and accomplishments within the field of practice
  • Leads on conceptual exploration, including ideation, sketching, and research
  • Partners with internal teams and clients to establish direction and innovative design solutions, ensuring implementation from concept through production
  • Developing design ideas across integrated solutions that demonstrate a deep understanding of the target audience, and can be applied accordingly across various channels to deliver high quality, innovative ideas that support the brand strategy
  • Confidently expresses a POV, providing suggestions on their own work as well as the work of others.
  • Supports and guides more junior team members to elevate creative solutions that support the client brief and project goals.
  • Assists in evaluating and contributing to the development of writing competitive and innovative design strategies and plans
  • Confidently works across multiple projects, working in conjunction with the design, client and production teams to ensure client needs are met to the highest standard
  • Collaborates with peers, design counterparts and partner groups to ensure project design continuity across all areas of focus, working together to overcome complex strategic and design challenges
  • Interacts with colleagues and clients in a positive, professional, and motivating manner.
  • Makes the most of AI to maximize knowledge, inspiration and efficiencies

What you’ll need

Experience in a similar role within a brand/design agency as a designer as part of a project team.

  • Understands bold thinking and how it translates into design
  • Demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of design with strong creative excellence, conceptual thinking, consistently developing innovative design ideas
  • Can confidently integrate a brand’s message, colour, imagery, type, composition and other assets and behaviours into deliverables
  • Can tell a compelling story and communicate a design strategy
  • Knowledge of current and upcoming creative and design trends
  • Awareness of trends in other industries, evolving cultural landscapes, as well as economic, political and environmental trends, that shape how people interact with brands and design.
  • Passion for design, brand and creative excellence
  • Strong technical skills with a range of creative software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Miro, AI tools, and similar – as well as the ability to represent design thinking using traditional design tools and hand sketching
  • Proficiency in motion graphics and digital design, experienced in leading the creation of impactful, cross-platform visual content

We believe the best work happens when we’re together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

We build brands. We build futures. Landor, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics, committed to a culture of respect where everyone belongs and can progress in their careers.

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Posted: June 14th, 2026