Senior Designer

Turner Duckworth; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private Medical

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Turner Duckworth is seeking a Senior Designer to lead branding, packaging and activation projects for high-profile clients. You’ll collaborate closely with Creative Directors and cross-disciplinary teams to translate strategy into visually cohesive design from concept to delivery.

You’ll be hands-on, meticulous, and capable of thinking big while honoring heritage, craft and budgets. Mentoring juniors, presenting to stakeholders, and maintaining quality across outputs are core aspects of the role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ design experience with agency branding, packaging or activation work.
• Strong portfolio showing craft across identity systems and packaging.
• Hands-on skills with Adobe Creative Suite; knowledge of production/artworking processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design from brief through final delivery with senior creatives.
• Generate multiple routes and strong creative thinking early in the process.
• Develop and maintain visual identity systems, packaging, and activation materials.

Skills

Branding

Packaging

Activation campaigns

Leadership

Presenting

Collaboration

Tools

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

Job description

Company Description

Since 1992, Turner Duckworth has created unmistakable visual identities for the world’s greatest brands. Its three studios in London, New York and San Francisco work collaboratively together to craft distinctive assets and visual systems that ensure brands stand out and remain top of mind across media and culture. Their work has won most major industry awards, including the D&AD Collaboration award, the Cannes Grand Prix for Design and their work for Coca-Cola was inducted into the Clio Hall of Fame.

Overview

As Senior Designer at Turner Duckworth you’ll be a key part of our creative team, leading the development and execution of visual identity, packaging, branding and activation work for high profile clients. You’ll partner with Creative Directors, Design Directors and cross-disciplinary teams (Strategy / Client Services / Production) to translate strategy into beautiful, meaningful design, from concept through to final delivery. You’ll be someone who is hands-on, meticulous, but also able to think big: pushing visual boundaries while honoring heritage, detail and craft.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design in projects (often multiple concurrently) from brief through strategy, concept, design, refinement and through to final artwork and delivery, working closely with Design Directors and Creative Directors.
• Contribute strong creative thinking and visual ideas early in the process; generate a variety of well-considered routes.
• Develop and maintain visual identity systems, packaging designs, and activation materials, ensuring clarity, consistency and excellence of craft.
• Work closely with other disciplines: Strategy / Planning, Client Services and Production to ensure design ideas are strategically sound, technically feasible, on budget, and to schedule.
• Mentor, guide, and uplift more junior designers; help them hone their craft, give clear feedback, and support their growth.
• Be a quality gate-keeper: ensure all outputs (digital, print, environmental, packaging) meet high standards in craft, detail, accuracy, and finish.
• Present work confidently and thoughtfully to internal stakeholders and clients, explaining design decisions with clarity and conviction.
• Liaise with external contributors (illustrators, typographers, photographers, motion- or 3D-artists) and oversee their deliverables as required.
• Bring in inspiration from culture, design, trends, materials, packaging innovations etc., and feed that into work to keep it fresh and compelling.
• Collaborate on pitches and new business when needed: helping shape creative directions and collateral.
• Contribute to the smooth running of projects: help with scheduling, scope, resource planning, ensuring budgets & timelines are adhered to.
• Maintain a kind, positive, collaborative attitude, even under pressure. Be someone who raises the bar but also lifts others.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ design experience, ideally with significant agency experience across branding, identity, packaging, and/or activations.
• Strong portfolio showing excellent visual craft: identity systems, packaging, activation work, and ideally examples of work across print, digital and environmental or physical touchpoints.
• Solid hands-on skills with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), plus good knowledge of the production/artworking processes for packaging, print, digital. Experience with motion, 3D, or environmental design is a plus.
• Excellent eye for detail: typography, colour, materials, finishes. Understanding of scale, production constraints, technical execution.
• Confident presenter: you can articulate your thinking, defend your decisions, take feedback, and adapt ideas accordingly.
• Leadership mindset: ability and willingness to mentor, to push standards, to set and maintain design quality across teams.
• Strong collaboration skills: able to work with different disciplines, understand client needs, adapt to constraints.
• Curious, culturally aware, always looking at what’s happening in the world around, and understanding how that can inform and elevate our design work.
• Resilient under pressure, flexible, with a positive, can-do attitude.

Additional Information / Benefits

Turner Duckworth has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees, full details of which are shared when you join. This includes the classics like Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical, as well as Reflection Days, Shared Parental Leave, and spans other initiatives like:

Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Turner Duckworth, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.