Creative Designer, Butternut Box

• Are you a hardworking, cat-centric individual ready to embark on an exciting journey?
• You're a cat lover, actually obsessed with cats, who understands the special bond between humans and their feline family members and can create content that tugs at the heartstrings of our audience
• Highly creative and passionate about your craft
• Full of ideas that you are able to execute just as well as you can generate them
• Excellent communicator
• Able to produce clear and inviting pitch/overview documents
• Articulate in your vision and can inspire others - from teammates to customers and, of course, cats
• Comfortable in close collaboration with others (discovering a solution), as well as working without supervision (delivering design)
• Strong problem solver: you see opportunities to push creative boundaries in every brief, no matter how big or small
• Consider customer and business insights to make design choices
• Excellent time management and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Passion for start-ups
• 2+ years experience in a design role
• Competent in the Adobe Creative Suite
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Photoshop & Lightroom
• The ability to develop and maintain strong visual brand identities through content and design
• Good understanding of print, packaging, and production processes
• Strong knowledge of typography, artworking and layout
• Experience in building effective creative campaigns
• A strong portfolio of creative work that demonstrates versatile design skills and experience in creating designs across multiple mediums and channels (packaging, print, digital design, campaign)

Desirable

• We're on the lookout for someone to join the founding team of our Cat business
• As the Creative Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the visual identity of our brand
• We’re looking for someone with a strong design background and a well-rounded skill set who can confidently work across multiple mediums and channels, to deliver designs that help us stand out just as much as our unique fresh meals
• You’ll integrate yourself into every step of our creative process, from ideation to execution, whilst having plenty of opportunities to hone your craft and grow
• With each project, you’ll play a key role in our mission to bring health and happiness to cats everywhere
• You will work closely with the brand, marketing, innovation, and product teams to conceptualise and execute design solutions that effectively communicate our brand's values, purrsonality, and objectives
• This is a unique opportunity to be part of a brand's inception and see your work directly contribute to its success
• Take creative projects from concept to delivery, as well as everything in between
• Use business and brand insight to inform creative ideas and design choices
• Play a key role in building our cat brand by designing high-visibility and high-impact brand and conversion-led campaign creatives such as
• Digital (Emails, web banners, social advertising etc.)
• Print (Inserts, posters, booklets, signage, gifting, etc.)
• Out-of-home advertising
• Add value to our customers and improve their experience through packaging designs for:
• Exciting new and innovative products
• Existing range expansions
• Our overall unboxing experience
• Champion the brand - ensuring visual consistency and quality across all creative work
• Collaborate closely with our team of passionate cat lovers
• Help us feed more happy and healthy cats
• Foster relationships with the dog squad, collaborating on growth strategies

• As part of the recruitment process for this role, if you progress to the task stage, a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) will need to be signed before receiving the task brief