Media Designer
McKinsey & Company
Remoto
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
You will be client-facing, where your high-impact design quality, clarity, and creativity directly influence how complex ideas are translated into compelling visual stories.
You will support projects end-to-end, from initial briefing through to final delivery, ensuring alignment with client needs and maintaining high quality standards throughout.
There is flexibility to hire as a Media Designer or Senior Media Designer, based on your experience.
You will transform complex ideas into clear, engaging, and visually compelling media across a range of formats, including presentations, illustrations, animations, videos, and 3D assets.
Working closely with consulting teams and clients, you will help shape narratives and deliver tailored visual solutions that effectively communicate key messages. You will also contribute to proposals, client engagements, and external communications, often with high visibility and impact. In your day-to-day work, you will leverage AI-enabled design tools as part of hybrid workflows to enhance speed, quality, and creative output, applying sound judgment to determine where AI adds the most value.
In Senior roles, you will additionally mentor and guide junior designers while contributing to the continuous evolution of ways of working within the creative community.
We ask applicants to provide a portfolio of graphic/media design samples that showcase their expertise in e.g., branding, presentation design, layouts, booklets, posters, banners, logos, 3D or video assets and/or illustrations. The portfolio can be submitted as a single PDF file or uploaded to online platforms such as Behance or Dribble.
You will join our Europe Design & Media team in Lisbon, a diverse, collaborative and creative community working at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and design excellence.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in design or a media-related field
- 2+ years of professional design experience in consultancy, corporate, or design agency environments
- Proven experience working in client-facing contexts, managing multiple projects with high quality and tight deadlines
- Hands-on experience using AI-enabled design tools, within hybrid workflows and openness to experimenting with emerging technologies, while applying responsible and thoughtful judgment
- Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects) and familiarity with 3D tools such as Blender, Cinema 4D, or SketchUp.
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications and digital collaboration tools would be a plus
- Excellent written and spoken English skills (C1 level CEFR or equivalent)