Design Director – Personal Care Packaging

We’re looking for a design leader with undeniable charisma, deep creative instincts and hands-on experience in personal care packaging. You bring the energy and standards to elevate a team, the emotional intelligence to mentor and inspire, and the creative depth to solve problems quickly with clarity, relevance and originality. You’ll work closely with a Creative Director, our client, strategists, production and client partnership leads to translate insight and strategy into standout design. You’ll have a clear eye for detail, a belief in beautifully-made work and an instinct for how to move projects and brands forward. Your ideas won’t just sit on a shelf – they’ll help shape a partnership that’s both creatively ambitious and central to our business.

You’ll need to:

• Have significant experience in and a passion for personal care packaging design
• Be confident presenting directly to clients, with or without CD support
• Have a strong portfolio across global FMCG and personal care
• Be a team builder, able to mentor more junior team members and bring clarity to others
• Work with pace without losing sight of the bigger picture
• Have 6+ years in agency environments delivering across categories and multiple workstreams

Why this role?

• You’ll influence the creative direction of a world-class brand
• You’ll work with a team that’s ambitious, generous and genuinely cares
• You’ll help shape the next chapter of one of JDO’s most important partnerships

Location & flexibility

• Role is based in Tunbridge Wells (ideally) or London
• Flexible working can be discussed, but studio time is important to team success
• Minimum 32 hours per week with at least 2 days in either UK studio
• Ideally full-time (40 hours), which would be 3 days per week in either studio

Sound like a fit? Let’s talk. We want to work with the best – especially those who understand personal care and know how to make it meaningful, fresh and truly well-crafted.

Please note: Previous applicants need not reapply. No recruiters please. Regretfully, we can’t always respond to every applicant, but we do try. We believe in equal opportunity. We embrace individuality and diversity and employ irrespective of background, age, ethnicity, colour, gender, disability, sexual or religious orientation and marital status. We invest heavily in our people and help them drive their personal development. We offer very competitive salaries, exceptional benefits and WFH flexibility.

JDO’s international team of designers, brand strategists and client service consultants band together to deliver creative excellence to the world’s most loved and influential brands. With a scope of services that includes branding & creative strategy, packaging and product design, innovation & sustainability solutions as well as experiential and campaign activation, JDO forges brand worlds that ignite connection, provoke emotion and create belief.

At JDO, we believe…

• That complex problems can be smartly solved with ingenious, elegant design
• That clients are our partners in creating positive change for our communities, our culture and our planet
• That work should nurture wellbeing as well as pay our bills
• That the people you work with are as important as the brands you work on
• That diversity and inclusivity are not trends, but the future

JDO Creative

We are an award-winning team known throughout the industry for imaginative problem-solving, innovative ideas, and absolutely stunning design. We hold ourselves and our work to the highest of standards and, in fostering a culture of collective creativity, we’re living proof that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Beyond the skillset and the mindset necessary to sustainably deliver powerful design, each member of our team possesses:

• Creativity
• Bravery
• A willingness to take risks, challenge assumptions and zig when everyone else is zagging.
• Individuality
• A unique approach, perspective and talent that adds a different dynamic to our team.
• Vision
• The ability to see the potential and possibility in every project and every challenge.

JDO UK comprises two studios – our HQ in the beautiful historical town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the other in the heart of Central London. Though each member of our team is officially based at one of these studios, we all work together as a united front. In moving between these two locations, JDO team members benefit from a change of scenery with two beautiful office spaces, whilst also giving us the opportunity to cross pollinate ideas and collaborate to deliver our best creative potential.