Senior Brand & Packaging Designer

At Olsam, we are on a mission to grow brands and develop products that customers love, trust, and value.  We specialize in acquiring and scaling category-leading brands, unlocking their full potential by expanding them across international marketplaces and channels, streamlining operations, and driving product innovation.  

With a fantastic team across three continents and 15 nationalities, we combine deep expertise in e-commerce with diverse perspectives. We are not just building brands, we’re shaping the future of global consumer goods. We are looking for ambitious, driven individuals to be part of it. 

As a Senior Brand & Packaging Designer, you will help shape and scale FMCG brands across packaging, campaigns, and digital touchpoints. You will own the end-to-end design process, from concept through to final artwork, ensuring every output is consistent, commercially effective, and aligned to brand strategy.

Your main focus will be delivering packaging design and 360° creative across social, paid, e-commerce, retail, and marketplace channels, while building and maintaining brand systems and Figma templates that enable consistent execution across teams.

You will collaborate closely with marketing, e-commerce, and production partners to ensure all creative is fit for purpose and ready for market, including print production and supplier coordination.

This role is ideal for someone with strong FMCG brand and packaging experience, excellent craft skills, and a strong understanding of multi-channel design, who enjoys working across multiple brands in a fast-paced environment.

• Full-time, permanent role based at our modern office in Holborn, London 

• Working Hours: 40 hours per week, 9 am to 6 pm with a one-hour lunch  

• This position is hybrid, with the expectation to go to the London office at least 2 or 3 days per week. 

• Build and maintain brand systems, guidelines and Figma templates across multiple brands

• Own packaging design from brief through to print-ready delivery

• Execute 360 campaign creative across social, paid, email, retail and trade

• Design and adapt assets across ecom, digital and marketplace platforms

• Use AI tools actively to accelerate image direction, asset production and output

• Present work with clear rationale at every stage

• 5+ years in brand and packaging design: in-house or agency FMCG

• Portfolio showing strong work across brand identity, packaging and omni-channel execution

• Proven 360 execution across digital, social, ecom and print

• Expert in Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop

• Figma: brand systems, templates and handover

• AI tools: Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Runway or Kling

• Solid print production knowledge and supplier management

• Ecom experience across multiple platforms and digital touchpoints

• Comfortable owning projects across multiple brands simultaneously

• After Effects and Premiere Pro: motion and social video

• Beauty, household or lifestyle FMCG background

• Experience across multiple markets and languages

• 30 days holiday: + 8 UK bank holidays 

• Pension contribution Scheme: 5% from you, 3% from us. 

• Private Medical Insurance: Includes travel, vision & dental (through Vitality) 

• Work from Abroad: One month per year, anywhere in the world* 

• Bonus Scheme: Discretionary bonus, based on individual and company performance 

• Mental Health Support: Free, confidential therapy via Spill 

• Opportunity for International Travel: Our team members have been to New York, Vegas, Amsterdam… and Birmingham! 

• Flexi-Fridays: Finish early one Friday per month 

• Olstar Events: Quarterly meetups, celebrations & socials 

• Vibrant Office: Runway East, Bloomsbury 

Olsam is proud to be a disability-committed employer registered in the UK. If you identify as having a disability and meet all of the criteria set out in the job description, we would like to support you through the interview stage. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.

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