Middleweight Packaging Designer

Craft Agency Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days holiday plus your birthday off

Wellness budget

Training and development support

Annual agency away days

Based in Leeds studio

Job summary

Craft Agency Ltd in Leeds is seeking a packaging designer with 3–5 years in a design or branding agency, with strong FMCG or retail packaging experience and a portfolio of real client work. You’ll bring conceptual and strategic thinking from the sketch stage and present your ideas directly to internal teams and clients, defending the thinking behind them.

You’ll work under a senior team and help develop junior designers while shaping how the studio works day to day.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in a design or branding agency
• Hands-on FMCG or retail packaging experience, with a portfolio of real client work
• Fluency across Adobe CC and comfortable presenting ideas to teams and clients

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual and strategic packaging design from sketch stage to final presentation
• Present and defend design thinking directly to internal teams and clients
• Mentor junior designers and shape day-to-day studio practices
• Collaborate across strategy, production and client service to deliver integrated solutions

Skills

Brand design

Presentation

Adobe CC

Tools

Adobe CC

Sketching

Job description

The Role

You’ll create and develop packaging design across food and drink for some of the country’s most recognisable brands. This is not an execution seat. You’re expected to bring conceptual and strategic thinking from the sketch stage, and to present your ideas directly – to internal teams and to clients – and defend the thinking behind them.

You’ll work under the guidance of the senior team, including a Creative Director with 15+ years across respected UK and US branding studios. You’ll also help develop junior designers and shape how the studio works day to day. Collaboration here is direct: strategy, production and client service sit close, not siloed.

The Package

• £30,000 – £34,000
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus your birthday off
• Wellness budget
• Training and development support
• Annual agency away days
• Based in the central Leeds studio

The Person

You have three to five years in a design or branding agency, with hands-on FMCG or retail packaging experience – food and drink especially – and a portfolio built on real client work. You’re fluent across Adobe CC and comfortable presenting your own ideas. You’re at the point where you want to own concepts and start mentoring, not just deliver artwork.