Senior Brand & Packaging Designer

JDO Ltd; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

JDO Ltd in Royal Tunbridge Wells is seeking a senior brand & packaging designer to drive design thinking across briefs and mentor junior designers. You’ll work with a talented Design team on a world-loved personal care brand, ensuring craft, strategy and brand truth are upheld.

The role is based in Royal Tunbridge Wells (hybrid: three days in the studio) with collaboration across talent in London and beyond, supporting growth and delivering standout packaging and brand work.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years’ experience in brand/packaging agency with strong brand thinking.
• Portfolio showing beauty and personal care packaging.
• Mentoring junior designers and leading critiques.
• Comfort leading multi-brief design thinking and storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Creative thinking & crafting excellence across concept to final craft, elevating quality.
• Strategic brand alignment across multiple briefs to keep true brand truth.
• Studio process & project delivery, managing timelines and outputs.
• Team collaboration & contribution, providing constructive feedback.
• Leadership & mentoring, guiding junior designers and modelling leadership.
• Commercial acumen, budgeting awareness and resource considerations.

Job description

As a senior brand & packaging designer based out of our lovely Royal Tunbridge Wells studio, you’ll be at the heart of our innovative Design team. We're looking for a passionate and enthusiastic addition to the team, someone who is a bold thinker who will help bring our creative visions to life. You'll be working alongside some wonderfully talented people, on one of the world’s most loved personal care brands, mentoring our junior designers to ensure the next generation of talent are set up for success.

WHO YOU ARE

You’re a calm, confident creative with a strong voice, a steady presence and a deep commitment to quality. You lead by doing, bringing both clarity and flair to your work, and inspiring others to raise their game. You’re trusted to drive design thinking across multiple briefs, balancing big ideas with fine-tuned detail. You hold yourself to high standards and help others do the same: creating work that’s insightful, strategic and beautifully made.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Creative thinking & crafting excellence You shape creative work from concept to craft, elevating the quality through your own ideas and by raising the standard across the team. You hold space for originality, polish and bravery, and deliver work that is both strategically smart and visually powerful. You apply AI tools with purpose and precision, enhancing storytelling, efficiency and design ambition.

Strategic & brand alignmentYou hold the brief with confidence, translating it into compelling design while questioning and challenging where needed. You connect dots across projects, ensuring brand truth and creative opportunity stay aligned. You design with intent, not just instinct.

Studio process & project deliveryYou manage multiple workstreams with care and clarity. You keep timelines on track, own your output, and create structures that help the team deliver better. You’re a steadying influence who flags risks early and keeps quality moving at pace.

Team collaboration & contribution You contribute to a creative culture where people feel seen, supported and inspired. You give feedback that builds clarity and confidence, and you’re present in critiques, rituals and reviews. You lift the work, and the people who make it.

Leadership & mentoringYou mentor juniors through your feedback, your clarity and your consistency. You know when to support, when to stretch and how to model great leadership behaviours. You create space for others to grow while staying accountable for the outcomes.

Commercial acumenYou understand how to manage your time and creative ambition within the scope of the project. You protect the integrity of the work by staying aware of budgets, timelines and value. You contribute to resourcing conversations and help manage external contributors with efficiency and care.

EXPERIENCE

You’ll probably have around 5-8 years’ experience in a brand and/or packaging agency environment with a portfolio that shows how you bring strong brand thinking to packaging and brand worlds, with exposure to and a love for beauty and personal care.

LOCATION AND FLEXIBILITY

Ideally this role would be based out of our Royal Tunbridge Wells studio but we could consider applications for our London studio. This is a full-time role (40 hours) and we work to a hybrid model of three days in the studio.

WHY WORK WITH US?

What makes JDO special is how we work together. We value conviction without ego, generosity without fuss and craft that holds up in the detail. You’ll be encouraged to bring your point of view, ask better questions, learn from talented people around you and keep developing your voice.

Our promise to you is a career that matters: one where your talent is recognised, your growth is supported and your individuality is celebrated. We want people to do brilliant work, but not by becoming someone they are not.
We’re proud to have been named Creativepool’s Best Agency to Work For in both 2024 and 2025. That recognition matters to us because it reflects the kind of place we are building: high standards, real collaboration and a team that shows up for each other.

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer benefits that support rest, wellbeing, creativity and life outside work, including Fri-yays, where our studios close on the last Friday of most months, a day off on your birthday, end-of-year studio closure, an Employee Assistance Programme and a workplace nursery scheme to help with the cost of childcare.

JDO UK

JDO UK is home to two creative hubs: our headquarters in the historic heart of Royal Tunbridge Wells and our central London studio. Each of us is based at one location, but we work as one team; sharing ideas, collaborating across disciplines and supporting each other to deliver our strongest work.

Moving between the two studios gives us fresh perspectives and new energy, while helping ideas cross-pollinate.

We’re part of JDO’s international network of designers, brand strategists and client partnership experts, partnering with some of the world’s most loved and influential brands. Our work spans brand and creative strategy, packaging and product design, innovation and sustainability, and experiential and campaign activation.

Whatever the brief, we create brand worlds that connect, inspire and stay relevant in an ever-changing landscape.

About us

JDO is an award-winning design agency, expertly helping brands deliver on their promises by creating experiences people can see, feel, and believe.

With boundless creativity and craftsmanship, we craft identities and brand worlds that drive success. Partnering with visionaries and disruptors alike, we turn brand promises into powerful belief.

Our promise to every member of our team is a career that matters. One where your talent is recognised, your growth is supported, and your individuality is celebrated.

Be part of a team that brings energy, generosity and craft into every room – and shows up for each other, every single day. Together, we design for distinction, push boundaries and stay curious, always seeking a better way.

We believe creativity thrives on diversity – of background, identity, experience and thought. We’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels safe, seen and supported to grow.