Senior Packaging & Product Designer

⚙️ Responsibilities will include:

• Develop design routes for new own-brand products from brief to sign-off, across packaging formats including boxes, sleeves, tubes, wraps, tins, labels and more 

• Support the Lead Physical Product Designer in creating NPD visualisations and proposals for new own brand products and packaging 

• Collaborate with the creative and range teams from early development through to final production, ensuring design decisions are informed by format constraints, print processes, and material specifications

• Work within and actively contribute to the own-brand design system - understanding how colour, illustration, typography, and material choices interact across the full range

• Art direct illustration commissions within seasonal projects - briefing external illustrators clearly, reviewing work against brand standards, and integrating illustration into the wider design with confidence

• Produce accurate, well-structured design files ready for artworking and production

• Manage multiple projects at different stages simultaneously, with clear ownership of timelines, priorities, and delivery points

• Support the Lead Physical Product Designer in developing and codifying the own-brand design system as the range scales. 

✅ You’ll love this role if you…

• Graphic sensibility: You have an exceptionally strong eye for colour, composition, and visual hierarchy - and the ability to create powerful graphic combinations across colour, typography, illustration, and form. Not just the ability to apply a palette or follow a system, but the instinct to know. 

• Creative confidence: You can originate design routes from a blank page and work fluently within an existing system. You know when to push creatively and when to hold the line on consistency.

• Commercial savviness: You think about the recipient and the giver in every design decision, and you understand the relationship between categories of design and pricing.

• Design skills: You have great packaging and product design experience and understand the print and production process end to end. You're as comfortable with material and format decisions as you are with visual ones.

• Collaboration: You're comfortable working closely with creative, range, and procurement teams - not just other designers - and you can hold your own in conversations where creative and commercial priorities need to be balanced.

• Pace and precision: You work with accuracy and speed under deadline pressure. You don't let detail slip, and you communicate proactively when a decision is needed.

• Curiosity: You stay close to what's happening in packaging, gifting, and premium food and lifestyle - and you bring that knowledge into your work naturally.

• AI, automation & tools: You actively use AI and emerging design tools as part of your creative process - accelerating ideation, exploring directions, and pushing the quality of your output, and is already part of how you work.

✅ Ideal hard skills (we’d love to see some of these):

Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), including setting up accurate, production-ready artwork

Strong understanding of packaging die lines, cutter guides, and artwork preparation for print

Knowledge of print processes and finishes (e.g. litho, flexo, digital, foil blocking, embossing/debossing, varnishes)

Experience working across a range of materials (e.g. paper stocks, card boards, tins, wrappers)

Ability to create accurate mock-ups and prototypes, both physical and digital

Familiarity with supplier and manufacturer workflows, including pre-press requirements

Understanding of sustainable packaging principles (e.g. recyclability, material reduction)

Nice to have:

Experience with 3D modelling (e.g. Rhino) and rendering (e.g. Keyshot) for product and packaging development and visualisation

Experience working with glass, ceramics and textiles.

These are some of the skills and experience we think will enable success in this role, but please don’t worry if you are missing some of these. We’re committed to building a team made up of different strengths, skills and experiences, so if you’re excited about our values, passionate about what you do and would like to join us in doing things more thoughtfully, we’d love to hear from you.