Mid-weight Graphic Designer

Critical Playground LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Flexi-time

23 days holiday

Birthday day off

Monthly at-home coffee allowance

Enhanced Workplace Pension

Income Protection

Group Life Assurance

Job summary

Pact is hiring a full-time Mid-weight Graphic Designer to join our Brand and Comms team. You’ll translate briefs into high-quality designs for emails, social, packaging, and more, working with our Lead Designer to reinforce Pact’s visual identity.

You’ll bring 3-5 years’ designer experience, FMCG branding exposure, and strong command of the Adobe suite. Hybrid work from our London area HQ with a support-focused, collaborative culture awaits.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of design experience, agency or in-house.
• Experience on FMCG branding, packaging and identity.
• Proficient with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Understanding of print and production processes.
• Knowledge of motion design software for GIFs and videos.
• Willingness to use AI tools to speed up repetitive tasks while keeping craft.

Responsibilities

• Turn briefs into designs across website, digital ads, packaging, email and social media.
• Team with Lead Designer to translate strategy into high-quality designs.
• Create print-ready artwork for packaging and marketing assets.
• Contribute ideas, feedback, and craft to every project.
• Assist on photography briefs and support shoots, retouching as needed.
• Keep design files organized and accessible for the team.

Skills

Graphic design

FMCG branding

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Print production

Motion design

AI tools

Team collaboration

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

We’re Pact, and we’re here to change the world of coffee.

We seek out the earth’s best beans from the world’s best growers, lovingly roast them, and serve them to you at their freshest. You’ll find our speciality coffees in kitchens across the UK through our subscription and store, on the shelves at Waitrose and Ocado, on Amazon, and in offices, cafes and restaurants around the country. Everyone on our team helps shape what we do - from sourcing to marketing to the moment a bag lands on someone’s doorstep. Last year, we roasted over half a million kilograms of coffee, and grew our team to 70 across our head office near London Bridge and our roastery in Surrey.

Fancy making a Pact with us?

The role

Love great coffee, great design, and seeing your ideas come to life? We’re hiring a full-time Mid-weight Graphic Designer to join our Brand and Comms team. We’ve come a long way in the last couple of years, with a refreshed brand identity and a better experience for our customers, online and off. Now, we need someone to help us make the most of it across all channels. You’ll work closely with our Lead Designer to turn briefs from across the business into designs that look and feel unmistakably Pact - from emails and social posts to packaging and event graphics. You’ll bring fresh ideas to every brief, take feedback in your stride, and use it to make the next piece of work even better.

What you’ll be doing

Taking on creative briefs from across the business and bringing them to life across our channels, mainly our website, digital ads, packaging, email, and social media.

• Working closely with our Lead Designer to turn brand, marketing, and creative strategy into high-quality designs.
• Creating print-ready artwork for packaging, brand, and marketing assets, from large-format graphics and point of sale to coffee labels and cards.
• Bringing fresh thinking, strong ideas, and real craft to everything you design.
• Helping shape photography briefs and supporting on our photo and video shoots
• Retouching and finishing photography in post-production, so every image is ready to use across our channels
• Keeping our design files and master assets organised and easy for everyone to find
• Being a great brand ambassador for Pact, inside and outside the business.

Requirements

You could be who we’re looking for if…

• You have 3-5 years’ experience as a designer, in an agency or in-house
• You’ve worked on FMCG branding, packaging, and identity
• You know Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop inside out
• You understand print and production, and you know how to get artwork right
• You know your way around one or more motion design software to create engaging gifs and videos
• You’re open to using AI tools to speed up the more repetitive parts of the design process, so you’ve got more time for the creative work. (We don’t use AI to create our designs - the ideas and craft are always yours!)
• You’re motivated, full of ideas, and love bringing fresh thinking to the team
• You don’t just deliver a brief - you look for ways to make the final result even better, and you talk your ideas through with the team before running with them
• You welcome feedback, act on it, and carry what you’ve learned into your next project
• You’re a natural problem-solver with a balance of creativity and commercial awareness
• You stay calm and focused when things get busy
• You love working as part of a close-knit team, and you’re always happy to pitch in
• Coffee-making and photography skills would be a bonus, but we’re always happy for people to learn on the job

Benefits

Salary bracket:Up to £45,000 per annum Our Head Office is in London Bridge, but we offer a hybrid, flexible working environment. We have an engaged, collaborative approach to work, supportive leadership team, and our perks are great. Here are some of the Pact Perks we currently offer:

• Hybrid working model (everyone is in the office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
• Flexi-time working, with core hours (10:00-16:00)
• 23 days holiday (increasing annually up to 27 days)
• 3 extra days leave between Christmas & New Year
• Another day off for your birthday
• Monthly at-home coffee allowance
• Enhanced Workplace Pension
• Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance (plus bereavement & probate support)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Workplace Nursery Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (inc. counselling)