Joining Arup

Arup is an UK-headquartered independent firm with 92 offices in 34 countries and 18,000+ staff across the globe. Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of engineers, designers, consultants, and experts worldwide. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

Working for Arup India, offers the chance to work on exciting projects with a truly collaborative team including top experts in their field who are approachable and always happy to help. It's an exciting time to be a part our growth in India.

The Opportunity

We offer a comprehensive lighting design service, from initial strategic advice and concept development through to construction documents and on-site support for all markets worldwide. As lighting designers, engineers, and advisors we use the medium of light to shape and influence how people interact with the built environment. We combine our creative thinking and technical skills to create distinct solutions for our clients to positively impact people, communities and nature. Our open and progressive approach to design is deeply rooted in research and evidence-based methodologies. We are curious, working holistically to create the ideal platform for transformative ideas to flourish. We aspire to use these skills to shape a more sustainable built environment for future generations.

We are seeking a Senior Lighting Designer to help establish, grow, and lead our lighting design capability in India, working closely with our UK Lighting team. This is a strategically important role that combines hands‑on creative and technical design expertise with strong project delivery leadership and business development responsibilities.

You will play a key role in shaping our regional presence – building client relationships, winning work, and delivering high‑quality lighting design projects across sectors. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor designers, strengthen our local capability, and collaborate closely with our global lighting design community to bring the best of our thinking to the region.

In this role you will be responsible for:

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead lighting design workstreams from concept through to construction, ensuring the highest standards of creative, technical and visual quality.
• Manage project programmes, resources, financials, and risk, ensuring robust and timely delivery.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, and other specialists to deliver fully integrated and innovative design solutions.
• Present design ideas convincingly to clients and multidisciplinary teams, both in workshops and formal presentations.
• Oversee quality assurance, review documentation, and support site-stage services where required.

Business Development & Market Growth

• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, understanding local market drivers and opportunities.
• Lead and contribute to bids, proposals, and positioning activities.
• Represent the lighting team in industry events, conferences, and stakeholder engagements.
• Drive growth of the lighting design portfolio in India, identifying new sectors, partners, and regional opportunities.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Help recruit and mentor and support junior and mid‑level designers, helping to build a sustainable, high-quality lighting team in India.
• Support knowledge-sharing, best‑practice implementation, and engagement with wider lighting teams across geographies.
• Contribute to evolving our integrated design offer, collaborating with portfolios including experiential environments, sustainability, daylighting, and digital design.
  

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

We are looking for candidates with:

• A degree in lighting design, architecture, electrical engineering, or a related field; professional lighting qualifications are highly desirable.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating creative, human-centric lighting design across diverse project types (interior, exterior, urban, cultural, commercial, etc.).
• Ability to produce and direct high-quality concept designs, sketches, visualisations, reports, specifications, and technical documents.
• Strong skills in lighting software such as DIALux/Relux, CAD/BIM tools (Revit, Rhino), Adobe Creative Suite; Radiance knowledge is a plus.
• Demonstrated track record of managing and delivering complex lighting projects at senior level.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and guiding junior colleagues.
• Confident communicator who can lead workshops, manage clients, and advocate for design integrity.
• Proven ability to contribute to or lead business development efforts including client engagement, bidding, positioning, and relationship building.

Reward and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary at all levels, and one of the best benefits packages in our sector. Core benefits include Provident Fund contribution, NPS option, Mediclaim cover (incl. family), Term Life and Accident Insurance, Employee Assistance Prog. scheme for the family to safeguard your physical and mental wellbeing. In addition, all permanent employees are eligible for the Global Profit Share scheme. Subject to scheme rules employees can receive two Profit Share payments per year, which are dependent on the firm’s financial performance.

Different people, shared values

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

At Arup, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic. Our internal employee networks - BAME, Culture, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women - provide a space for you to express your views and to make a positive difference - discover more about life at Arup here.

At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.

At Arup, we appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply, and we will discuss how this could work in your role.

What happens next?

If this could be the next step in your journey, please apply online. All applications will be considered, and we will try our very best to respond to you within 72 hours of receiving your application.

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