Job description
Company Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Job Description
Power Your Curiosity at PA
Why consider joining us?
Joining us as a graduate is a big step. Joining us from your university studies, we want you to be bold, stay curious and dive into the opportunities we have to offer.
If you want a balance of technology, creativity, and real-world applications, coupled with an opportunity to work across a broad range of industry sectors, then this might be what you have been looking for.
At PA Consulting our industrial designers work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology, human insight, and creative strategy. Our dedicated Global Innovation & Technology Centre in Cambridge UK fosters multidisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and design excellence. Our designers work alongside engineers, researchers, and strategists to create everything from breakthrough medical devices to consumer electronics and next-generation packaging. We pride ourselves on pushing boundaries to deliver exceptional user experiences, award-winning products, and creative solutions for renowned global clients.
What you can expect
We work with our clients throughout the complete product lifecycle. Some of the things you’ll do as a graduate industrial designer at PA:
Work in a dynamic and supportive team environment, with full R&D facilities, state-of-the-art studios, workshops, and labs designed for experimentation, creativity, and fast product development.
Take part in creative ideation, consumer research, user experience mapping, and concept development. Produce outstanding concepts via freehand sketching, craft modelling, digital tools, and rendering.
Guided by a highly experienced team, you’ll have the equipment, encouragement, and expertise to fully develop your concepts from early vision through to working prototypes and designs for manufacture.
Use CMF specification, 3D CAD, generative AI design tools, design strategy, and product animations to bring ideas to life.
Present your work and design narrative to a range of stakeholders.
Collaborate closely with design leadership and multidisciplinary teams on client projects and internal initiatives.
Hybrid working – you’ll be in our office at least 2 days a week with flexibility as projects require.
Assessment process
First Stage Assessments:
Application form
Portfolio review
Final Stage Assessments:
Virtual meeting to discuss your portfolio and experience to date
In-person interview at our Global Innovation & Technology Centre
The Offer
Full-time, permanent role based at our Global Innovation & Technology Centre, Cambridge
Salary potential: £31,000 per annum plus additional travel allowance
This role will start in Autumn 2026
Be part of a vibrant global creative community, with ongoing professional development and support
A career at PA is what you make of it — so power your curiosity and prepare to make an impact.
Qualifications
Qualification: Undergraduate degree - studying towards, or completed an accredited degree in product/industrial design (or closely related subject).
Excellent portfolio demonstrating your visual thinking, process, and design skills.
Growth-oriented and curious - open to change, eager for new challenges, and keen to learn.
Collaborative and relationship-focused — thrive in dynamic teams and support others to succeed.
Strong aesthetic sensibility and sharp eye for form, CMF, and detail.
Skilled in 3D CAD and rendering (ideally SolidWorks or Rhino alongside Keyshot), freehand/digital form definition, and adept with Figma/MIRO, Adobe Suite and Microsoft Office.
Excellent organisation and self-starting attitude.
Great communication skills, both written and verbal.
Basic understanding of manufacturing and design for production.
Awareness and enthusiasm for technology and its role in design.
We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today by completing our online application
Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.
All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.
We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you’re unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.
Additional Information
Life At PA encompasses our peoples’ experience at PA. It’s about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We’re focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Find out more about Life at PA here.
We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. If you join us, full time in a permanent role, check out some of our extensive benefits:
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]
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