Senior Brand Designer

Zealous Agency; Normanton on Trent; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Zealous Agency, a top independent UK creative partner, seeks a Senior Brand Designer to craft brands that command attention across entertainment, FMCG and lifestyle sectors.

You will lead projects from concept to delivery, shape brand worlds, mentor juniors, and present to clients, pushing creative standards and delivering culturally resonant outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building distinctive brand identities.
• Exceptional craft and conceptual thinking with meticulous detail.
• Strong experience with FMCG, entertainment or lifestyle brands.
• Lead projects from strategy through delivery and mentor teammates.
• Portfolio showcasing bold, culturally relevant design.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from concept to execution across identity and branding.
• Create visual identities and brand worlds that feel fresh and strategic.
• Collaborate with strategy, creative and production teams.
• Mentor junior designers and present concepts to clients.
• Raise creative standards across the studio.

Skills

Brand identity

Leadership

Conceptual thinking

Portfolio excellence

Brand strategy

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

InDesign

Job description

Zealous Agency is partnering with one of the UK's most exciting independent creative agencies to find an exceptional Senior Brand Designer.

This is a role for someone operating at the very top of their game, a designer with the craft, confidence, and creative instinct to build brands that command attention, shape culture and leave a lasting impression.

This top-class agency creates bold, playful, and commercially powerful work for globally recognised names across entertainment, FMCG and lifestyle brands. Identity, packaging, campaigns, and art direction are some of the things you'll be doing for ambitious challengers and the biggest brands in the world!

They're looking for someone who can lead ambitious projects from concept to execution, creating visual identities and brand worlds that feel fresh, strategic, and impossible to ignore.

You’ll collaborate across strategy, creative and production, mentor junior designers, present confidently to clients and help raise the creative standard across the studio.

We’re looking for someone with:

• 5+ years' experience building distinctive identities
• Exceptional craft and conceptual thinking with a real obsession for detail
• Strong experience across FMCG, entertainment or lifestyle brands
• The confidence to lead a project from strategy through to delivery, and to bring other designers up with you
• A portfolio full of bold, culturally relevant design that will excite and inspire

This is an opportunity to join a seriously ambitious agency who create standout work.

If you’re ready to push creative standards and build brands with real cultural impact, we’d love to hear from you!