London, UK
Intermediate lighting designer
at Elektra Lighting Design
Elektra Lighting is seeking an intermediate lighting designer to join its team – hybrid / London.
14 October 2025 – intermediate lighting designer
We’re looking for not one but two lighting designers to join our practice at Elektra, at intermediate level.
Us
We are a long-established (25 years) award winning lighting consultancy based in London. With projects all across Europe, the Middle East, and the US our work focusses on hotels, retail, exterior and more.
The role
Reporting to a team senior, an intermediate lighting designer would take major responsibility for projects, doing drawings, calculations, details, renders, specifications and more. You need to be able to liaise with other members of the design team in a professional manner. We would be actively training you to become better and develop as a lighting designer. You need to know the basics and have worked on several projects already, able to just drop in and start.
Conditions
We work a full time 35-hour week (with full pay) spread over Monday to Thursday. Yes that’s right, Fridays are off (major perk) so you get to enjoy long weekends every week.
We also have an in-house training programme and team structure to encourage your development. Also pension, etc.
Since the pandemic we have adopted a hybrid part office / part home working pattern, but note we would want you to be in full time for the first few weeks at our office in Clerkenwell, to get the hang of how we work.
You
You should be an enthusiastic, hardworking, creative, and self-motivated individual.
You need to have experience in lighting design working in a design studio environment on commercial projects, ideally hotels. You’d need experience of commercial use of all or nearly all of the following: AutoCAD, Dialux, MS Office, InDesign, Photoshop. You also need experience in taking projects (as part of a team or solo) through the design process and possibly some site experience too.
Multiple languages always a bonus (we work across EMEA region).
Dealbreakers
Do not apply if you don’t have a current UK work visa, or if you are not based in the UK and want to work entirely remotely. These are non-negotiable.
Note: just to be completely clear; we are not product designers. We don’t design light fittings, in the same way that architects do not design bricks. We create well-lit architectural spaces using light.
We are committed to equal opportunities so would especially love to hear from you if you are from any sort of minority, even if you don’t think you quite have everything it takes.
Please submit your CV and portfolio immediately, marked ‘Application for lighting designer position’ to Neil Knowles – preferably on email to [email protected] rather than via the “apply for job button” below.