Landor is looking for a Maternity Cover Senior Designer to join our London studio. Could this be you?
We are Landor, part of WPP
World-leading brand experts,
underpinned by the most expansive strategic & creative capabilities in our category.
We make brands more valuable and less vulnerable.
We build brands differently. We work with our clients to define and solve their business problems through the lens of brand. We strategically join the dots between our design, experience, governance and measurement capabilities, and always connect our brand work to business outcomes.
Landor companies also include amp (sonic branding), bdg (workplace & architectural experts), Deep Local (creative technologists) and ManvsMachine (3D motion design).
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Experience & Retail Designer, you’ll take on our medium to large projects. You’ll combine your understanding of a client's business with your spatial design skills to map out a clear creative strategy, designing physical and retail environments that make a real impact.
Job Responsibilities
- Bring big ideas, strong craft, and real-world expertise to our 3D and experiential design projects.
- Lead the creative process, from spatial layouts and customer flows to initial sketches, mood boards, and research.
- Partner with clients, internal teams, and external makers or architects to make sure your ideas are successfully built and installed.
- Design physical spaces and retail environments that connect with visitors and make sense for the brand.
- Confidently share your ideas and give constructive, inspiring feedback to others.
- Mentor and guide junior designers (including 3D visualisers) to help them grow and improve their work.
- Help shape the creative strategy behind our retail and experience projects.
- Jump between different projects smoothly, collaborating with client and production teams to keep things running beautifully.
- Work closely with graphic and digital designers to make sure the physical space, digital touchpoints, and branding all feel like one cohesive experience.
- Keep a positive, collaborative, and professional attitude with your team and clients.
- Use AI tools in a smart way to find inspiration and work more efficiently.
What you’ll need
- Experience working as a designer in a brand, retail design, or experiential agency.
- A clear understanding of how to translate a brand’s personality into a physical, three-dimensional space.
- A strong portfolio showing spatial design, material selection, environmental graphics, and great conceptual thinking.
- The ability to bring a brand to life using color, type, materials, lighting, and fixtures.
- A knack for storytelling and the ability to explain the strategy behind a customer journey.
- A finger on the pulse of what’s next in retail, hospitality, and spatial design.
- Curiosity about how people interact with physical spaces and technology in the real world.
- A genuine passion for design, spaces, and creating great experiences.
- Solid skills in 3D modeling and rendering software (like SketchUp, Rhino, Cinema 4D, V-Ray, or Twinmotion), alongside Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and quick hand-sketching to show your ideas.
- Experience taking 2D brand designs and successfully adapting them into three dimensions.
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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Skills Required
- Experience in a similar role within a brand/design agency as part of a project team
- Demonstrated sophisticated understanding of design, creative excellence and conceptual thinking
- Ability to integrate brand message, colour, imagery, type, composition and assets into deliverables
- Ability to tell a compelling story and communicate a design strategy
- Knowledge of current and upcoming creative and design trends and wider cultural trends
- Strong technical skills with creative software including Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and Miro
- Familiarity with AI tools to support design work
- Ability to represent design thinking with hand sketching and traditional design tools
- Proficiency in motion graphics and digital design, leading creation of cross-platform visual content
- Experience mentoring or supporting more junior team members
What We Do
A global leader in brand consulting and design, Landor helps clients create agile brands that thrive in today’s dynamic, disruptive marketplace. Our work enables top brands—from Barclays to BMW and Tide to Taj—to stand for something while never standing still. Landor’s branding services include strategy and positioning, identity and design, motion graphics, brand architecture, prototyping, innovation, naming and verbal identity, research and analytics, environments and experiences, engagement and activation, and interactive and media design. Founded by Walter Landor in 1941, Landor pioneered many of the research, design, and consulting methods that are now standard in the branding industry. Today, Landor has 26 offices in 19 countries, working with a broad spectrum of world-famous brands. Clients include Alitalia, Barclays, Bayer, BBC, BMW, BP, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, FedEx, GE, Kraft Heinz, Huawei Technologies, Marriott International, Nike, Pernod Ricard, Procter & Gamble, S&P Global, Samsung, Sony, and Taj Group. Landor is a member of WPP, the world's largest marketing and communications firm.
