Lead Exhibition Designer

Overview

In this Lead Exhibition Designer role, you will shape spatial environments across exhibitions, galleries and visitor spaces for a world-renowned organisation undergoing redevelopment. You’ll guide projects from concept through installation, combining creative space planning with precise technical delivery. You will mentor junior designers and uphold studio standards while staying hands-on across multiple projects. Sustainability guides delivery and you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure buildable, on-time, on-budget outcomes. This opportunity offers high-profile work, ownership from concept to completion, and meaningful impact in a specialist in-house studio.

Pay / Benefits

• Defined Benefit Pension
• Excellent Benefits
• Hybrid Working (3 days onsite)

Responsibilities

• Lead the spatial design of exhibitions from concept to installation
• Produce and oversee drawings/specifications across projects
• Coordinate consultants and contractors to ensure buildability and delivery on time and on budget
• Mentor junior designers and contribute to CAD, sustainability and studio standards
• Support senior leadership in maintaining high studio standards across multiple projects

Key requirements

• Background in exhibition design / spatial design / experiential design or architecture with relevant project experience
• Ability to manage projects from concept through technical development to delivery/installation
• Strong portfolio of completed, built spatial projects

• leadership and mentoring
• collaboration
• communication
• CAD (unspecified software)
• design development to installation workflows
• sustainability considerations in delivery

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