Junior Designer

Elizabeth Scarlett; Potters Bar; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Health & wellbeing discounts

Income protection

Life assurance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Elizabeth Scarlett is seeking a Junior Designer to join our small, close-knit creative team and help scale a purpose-led brand. With 1–2 years of design experience and a strong portfolio, you'll work across brand, print, digital, e-commerce, email and social to deliver high-quality on-brand work.

We value curiosity about automation and AI-assisted design tools, and you should be eager to experiment, improve workflows, and collaborate with product and content teams.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of design experience with a strong portfolio.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and/or Figma.

Responsibilities

• Create and adapt high-quality, on-brand creative across brand, print, digital, e-commerce, email and social.
• Support campaign development across design, product and content collaborating with wider teams.
• Prepare artwork for digital and print production, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Work within and help evolve the Elizabeth Scarlett visual identity.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, streamline processes and improve efficiency.

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Typography

Layout

Color theory

Visual craft

Job description

Create Joy. Protect Wildlife. Build for Growth.

At Elizabeth Scarlett, we exist to create joy, inspire wonder, and protect wildlife - using art and design to connect people to nature, and to one another. By 2030, our goal is to have contributed over £2 million to wildlife conservation.

As our next Junior Designer, you will join a team that leads with kindness, dreams big and takes action together. You will be helping to scale a creative, purpose-led brand while shaping the impact we make in the world.

Employment type: Full Time

Why this role matters

We're looking for a Junior Designer with 1–2 years' experience to join our small, close-knit creative team and get properly stuck in.

We're also looking to bring a new skillset into the business.

Alongside strong design fundamentals, we're looking for someone who is curious about automation and smarter ways of working. You might have experimented with AI-assisted design tools, found ways to automate repetitive tasks, improved a creative workflow or simply have a natural instinct for making things work better.

You don't need to be an expert. What matters is that you're curious, proactive and excited to experiment — and can bring ideas that help the team design and work smarter.

What you will be doing

• Create and adapt high-quality, on-brand creative across brand, print, digital, e-commerce, email and social.


• Support campaign development across design, product and content collaborating with wider teams


• Prepare artwork for digital and print production, ensuring accuracy and consistency.


• Work within and help evolve the Elizabeth Scarlett visual identity.


• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, streamline processes and improve efficiency.

Who we are looking for

• 1–2 years’ experience in a design role, with a strong portfolio showcasing brand and digital work.


• Confident using Adobe Creative Suite and/or Figma, with strong fundamentals in typography, layout, colour and visual craft.


• A meticulous eye for detail and pride in producing high-quality work.


• Curious and proactive, with an interest in new design technology, AI or automation — tell us what you’ve experimented with.


• Able to manage multiple projects, question existing processes and spot opportunities to work smarter.


• Collaborative and commercially aware, understanding how great creative can work for both the customer and the business.

Nice to have:

• Motion, animation or video editing experience.


• Experience with AI-assisted creative tool or automation.


• Experience working within a lifestyle, fashion, beauty or luxury brand.

What we offer

• A meaningful brand rooted in nature, art and conservation, giving 2% of every sale back to the wild.


• A kind, curious team with plenty of opportunity to learn, grow and explore new creative technologies in a purpose-led brand


• Competitive salary, dependent on experience +10% discretionary performance bonus


• Private medical insurance, health & wellbeing discounts, stress support


• Income protection (up to pension age)


• Life assurance (up to pension age)

Flexibility and time

• Hybrid working (minimum 2 days in-office)


• Up to 1 month “work from anywhere” in a ±2 hr timezone


• Annual L&D budget (3% of salary)


• Annual summer retreat (e.g. 42 Acres in Somerset)


• 60% team discount


• 25% friends and family discount code

Impact and ownership

• Shape how the creative works across a growing purpose led brand


• Working directly with senior creative and the wider marketing & Brand teams


• Direct contribution to building ES community, brand love, and to our £2M conservation mission

Our hiring process

• [Virtual - video call] Values / Mission Stage (Phone call), with: Kunjan (Recruiter)


• [In person] Task + Role Skills Stage with Hiring Manager, with: Jeni, Emily / Ailsa (Senior Creative & team)


• [In person] Vision & Brand Ambassador Stage with Jonny (eCommerce Director)

Ready to join a purpose-driven brand and help us scale joy and conservation impact?