Senior Brand Designer

Zealous Agency; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Zealous Agency in the UK is seeking a Senior Brand Designer to shape identities and brand worlds for high-profile clients. This role demands top-tier craft, strategic thinking, and a confident studio leader capable of elevating work from concept to delivery.

You’ll mentor junior designers, collaborate across strategy, creative and production, and create bold, culturally resonant designs for entertainment, FMCG and lifestyle brands across the agency’s ambitious slate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience building distinctive identities.
• Exceptional craft and conceptual thinking with attention to detail.
• Strong experience across FMCG, entertainment or lifestyle brands.
• Ability to lead projects from strategy through delivery and mentor others.
• Portfolio with bold, culturally relevant design.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from concept to execution.
• Create visual identities and brand worlds.
• Collaborate across strategy, creative and production.
• Mentor junior designers and present to clients.
• Raise the creative standard across the studio.

Skills

Identity design

Brand strategy

Art direction

Creative storytelling

Client presenting

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!