Design Lead (12-Month Fixed-Term)

JobSpace; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave + extra week

Wellbeing benefits

Income protection

Parental leave

Professional development

Flexible workplace

Job summary

Rabobank New Zealand is seeking a Design Lead to join the Marketing team on a 12-month contract, shaping visual storytelling across channels. You will lead design initiatives, ensuring high-quality creative work that aligns with brand values and supports campaigns, events, and reporting.

With 5+ years in design, you will collaborate across teams to transform briefs into visually compelling materials, balancing creativity with brand guidelines and production realities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a corporate, agency or in-house design role.
• Strong experience across digital and print design.
• Experience working with established brand guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Design marketing material across print and digital channels.
• Develop creative concepts from brief to execution.
• Create artwork for advertising across billboards, publications, social media and events.
• Manage production and delivery of collateral and branded assets.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
• Maintain consistent Rabobank brand identity across touchpoints.
• Support briefs and workflows, and liaise with suppliers and partners.
• Balance big-picture creativity with attention to detail.

Skills

Brand design

Print & digital design

Adobe Creative Suite

Brand guidelines

Animation basics

Stakeholder management

DAM systems

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

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Bring your creativity to life at one of New Zealand's leading food and agribusiness banks, recognised as 'Bank of the Year' by customers in the 2025 Roy Morgan New Zealand Customer Satisfaction Awards.

Rabobank is the world's leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our kaimahi (employees) who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for our clients.

Our purpose is clear - 'growing a better New Zealand together'. Our commitment to our employees and clients is at the heart of everything we do.

About the role | Mō te tūranga

We're looking for a talented Design Lead to join our Marketing team on a 12-month contract and help shape the visual storytelling of Rabobank New Zealand.

If you're a creative thinker with exceptional design skills, a passion for brand excellence, and the ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the centre of a dynamic marketing team, delivering impactful and high-quality design solutions that bring our brand to life across a diverse range of channels.

From digital campaigns and social media ads to event branding, sponsorship signage, print collateral and complex reports, you'll play a key role in delivering engaging and impactful creative work that connects with our audiences.

You'll collaborate closely with teams across the business, helping transform ideas and briefs into visually compelling marketing communications that are both on-brand and commercially effective.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing marketing and promotional material across print and digital channels
• Developing creative concepts and campaign ideas from brief through to execution
• Creating advertising artwork for billboards, publications, display advertising, social media and events
• Managing production and delivery of marketing collateral, signage and branded assets
• Working closely with stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard
• Championing the Rabobank brand and ensuring consistent visual identity across all touchpoints
• Streamlining briefing processes and supporting marketing workflows
• Building strong relationships with suppliers, production partners and internal stakeholders

We're looking for someone who combines big-picture creativity with exceptional attention to detail.

You'll ideally have:

• 5+ years' experience in a corporate, agency or in-house design role
• Strong experience designing across both digital and print environments
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• A solid understanding of print production processes
• Experience working within established brand guidelines
• Basic animation and motion graphics skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver quality work under pressure
• Experience working with DAM (Digital Asset Management) programmes
• A collaborative approach and positive attitude

Bonus points if you've previously worked in a Design Lead role or have experience managing creative workflows and briefing processes.

Life at Rabobank | te ora I Rabobank

At Rabobank we offer a range of benefits:

• Access to and eligibility for the Bank's annual variable remuneration incentive scheme
• A range of wellbeing benefits including free Flu vaccinations, 2 days wellbeing leave, wellbeing webinars and Employee Assistance Programme
• Fully paid Income Protection, Life and Total Disability insurance
• Annual leave plus eligibility for an extra week of bonus leave, as well as the option to purchase up to two extra weeks of leave a year
• Professional development and training
• Access to 26 weeks fully paid parental leave for new parents, continued payment of the employer KiwiSaver contribution for the 52 weeks
• Active employee social club and a range of fun activities throughout the year
• Paid Community Leave Day to undertake volunteer work for the communities we live in and support

In return we can offer you:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a values-driven organisation with an ambitious growth strategy. We have a workplace culture that our people are proud of, where we embrace inclusion and belonging and strive to deliver positive experiences for our people and clients.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including personal and professional development opportunities, health and wellbeing initiatives, additional leave benefits, a flexible workplace and insurance and financial benefits.

Rabobank has won an award for its culture work and believe embracing inclusion, equity and belonging delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here.

At Rabobank New Zealand, we are committed to our values; we are client-driven, we take responsibility, we are professional and cooperative. We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, sex/sex characteristics, gender (inclusive of all genders), gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, or other diversity characteristics not mentioned. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.