Design Lead – part time - 3 days pw
London - hybrid
£40k (pro rata)
Our client is a rapidly growing financial company that specialise within the tech and AI space.They are looking to bring in a designer to help them lead their brand and projects across all of their products, website, marketing and social. This is a 3 day a week permanent role, with 2 days being onsite in their London office (right by Tower Bridge). The company offer great benefits, including a very decent bonus. Please note that the salary stated above will be pro rata’d to the 3 days per week. This is an ideal opportunity for a midweight-designer ready to step up, or a senior designer seeking a part‑time role with autonomy, visibility, and real creative influence.
About the company
This tech finance company have been on a growth mode over the past 3 years, with 70 people within the company and a marketing team of 4, with this making the 5th person with more expansion planned.
They have a bright, spacious office with breakout spaces, a library, and social areas including pool, darts, and table tennis. They have a values-led culture, the CEO engages with everyone daily, they have charity days and socials each Thursday – everyone at all levels has a voice.
The company has grown 40%+ annually over the past five years and are scaling rapidly - with major investment in product, expansion into the US and APAC, and plans to grow from 70 to 100+ employees in the next 3 to 5 years.
About the role;
Working alongside their Head of Marketing, you can have strategic input and oversight into the development of their brand from a creative aspect. As 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 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 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.
Key Responsibilities for the role;
• Act as the primary guardian of their brand identity across all channels.
• Maintain and evolve their visual guidelines, templates, and creative standards.
• Ensure brand consistency across digital, print, events, and editorial output.
• 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.
• Lead the design and layout of editorial reports, data publications, insight and analysis
• Collaborate with content teams to translate complex data or analysis into clear, premium visual storytelling.
• Produce event branding including stage assets, signage, agendas, sponsorship packs, and digital promo materials.
• Work with their Events team to ensure every touchpoint feels premium and consistent with their brand.
• 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.
• 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 and AV are a bonus, if you have this skillset, then you would; 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.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), with working knowledge of Figma or similar tools.
• 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.
Preferred Skills
• Experience designing long-form editorial or data-led reports (data visualisation).
• Motion graphics, video editing, or animation skills (Premiere Pro / After Effects).
• Familiarity with CMS platforms, UI/UX principles, or simple web design tasks.
They are looking for driven, strategic thinkers who thrive in fast-paced environments and want to make a real impact. If this is you, do apply without delay, including your portfolio link.