Designer, Digital Media ​/ Production, Creative Design ​/ Digital Art

This role is based in our 5 Howick Place office

Contagious part of the LIONS Division is a creative and strategic intelligence firm that supercharges marketing for agencies and brands. Through our IQ intelligence platform consulting services training and events we inspire and enable marketers to deliver brave effective and contagious creativity. Find out more at .

As Designer at Contagious you’ll be the creative force behind our visual communications collaborating with our Creative Services team to deliver exceptional design across our Intelligence Advisory Events and Learning products. Working across both Contagious brands and the wider LIONS division you’ll need proven professional design experience and the ability to balance creative innovation with strategic thinking. Your sharp eye for detail and strong sense of craft will help us produce materials that demand attention, convey clear messages and strengthen the Contagious brand.

You’ll translate creative strategy into compelling communications with originality, clarity and consistency.

• Create engaging visual designs across digital and print that maintain brand consistency while pushing creative boundaries.
• Transform complex ideas into simple striking visuals with strong conceptual foundations.
• Lead design projects from creative brief through to final delivery managing stakeholder feedback and revisions.
• Provide creative input during campaign planning shaping ideas from a design perspective.
• Collaborate across departments to fulfil design needs throughout Contagious and the wider LIONS Division.
• Present multiple design routes with confident rationale.
• Prepare final assets correctly for production across channels.
• Design marketing collateral including emails, social media assets and event materials.
• Support Content Advisory and Sales teams with high-quality presentations and branded materials.
• Champion inclusive representative design reflecting diverse perspectives.

• Previous experience in a professional design role in agency, in‑house or consultancy environments with a proven track record of delivering design solutions for marketing communications and brand materials.
• Mastery of design fundamentals including typography, hierarchy, grid systems, colour theory, visual composition and layout principles across digital and print applications.
• Technical proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects), PowerPoint and Figma.
• Portfolio demonstrating professional work from concept to execution across digital campaigns, print materials and presentations showing ability to work within brand guidelines while maintaining creative excellence.
• Excellent organisation and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and present ideas with confidence.
• Current knowledge of design trends and the wider creative industry.
• Commitment to inclusive representative design.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement we encourage you to apply. We’re committed to creating a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That’s why we work in‑person with each other or with customers and partners three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces like at an Informa event you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in‑person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on Linked In Learning. When it’s time for the next step we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 25 days annual leave rising to 27 days after two years plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of…