Senior Designer

About the role 

We’re looking for a Senior Designer to work with the Head of Creative to elevate Origin’s visual output across brand, retail, and digital channels. This role combines hands-on design, with a key focus on typography, packaging and print, with creative leadership- shaping how Origin shows up across packaging, cafés, campaigns, and communications.

You’ll be responsible for maintaining and evolving our brand, ensuring consistency while pushing it forward. This is a role for someone who cares deeply about typography, materials, and storytelling-and knows how to translate ideas into impactful, real-world design.

What you'll do

Brand Guardianship

• Support the development and evolution of Origin’s visual identity
• Translate brand strategy into compelling creative across all channels
• Maintain and refine brand guidelines, ensuring consistency and quality

Design Execution

• Deliver high-quality print-ready design across packaging and print, as well digital and retail environments
• Oversee campaign creative from concept through to final output
• Create assets for marketing, e-commerce, wholesale, and social
• Meticulously review packaging samples, print artwork, and proofs

Retail & Spatial Design

• Contribute to café design concepts, signage, and in-store experiences
• Work closely with retail and operations teams to ensure cohesive execution

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with marketing, product, and wholesale & Ecomm teams to deliver integrated campaigns
• Manage and mentor junior designers or freelancers where needed
• Work with external agencies, printers, and suppliers to ensure best-in-class output

Creative Process & Standards

• Champion a high level of craft, attention to detail, and innovation
• Balance creative ambition with commercial and operational realities
• Manage multiple projects and timelines effectively

Who you are

Values & Mindset

• Someone who respects and understands established brands, with the sensitivity to evolve them thoughtfully
• A strong eye for detail while also seeing the bigger picture
• A collaborative team-oriented mindset with a proactive, solutions-focused approach
• Passion for design, culture, and creating meaningful sustainable brand experiences
• The ability to help position us as the leading design-led Speciality Coffee Roaster in Europe
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment
• A strong interest in sustainability, with an appreciation for responsible sourcing and production practices

What you'll bring 

Skills & Experience

• Strong portfolio demonstrating brand, packaging, print, and digital work
• Excellent typography, layout, and visual storytelling skills
• Experience working across physical and digital touchpoints
• Strong understanding of materials, print processes, and production
• Ability to oversee packaging projects to ensure consistency
• Ability to think conceptually and execute with precision
• Comfortable presenting ideas and articulating creative decisions
• Experience mentoring or leading others is a plus

Desirable

• Motion or digital product/UI experience/Figma
• Interest/work within the F&B industry, specifically Speciality Coffee

What success looks like 

• Origin’s brand is executed beautifully and consistently across packaging, print, retail, and digital with typography and craft at the forefront.
• Packaging, print, and campaign creative ship flawlessly, from concept through production, with exceptional attention to detail.
• The visual identity evolves thoughtfully, pushing the brand forward while respecting its heritage.
• Design collaborates seamlessly with marketing, retail, and product teams, resulting in clear, effective, and commercially sound creative.

Compensation & Benefits

Work–Life Balance

We offer 34 days’ inclusive of your birthday, alongside enhanced sick pay, period leave and personal days. We also provide enhanced family leave to support every kind of parent.

Training

Learning and development are central to life at Origin. All employees have access to SCA training and ongoing learning opportunities. As well as access to mental health and physical first aid training and qualifications.

Perks

Up to a £2k bonus and £1k end of year performance award. We also offer two paid volunteering days each year, access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and GP service, free therapy sessions, a cycle to work scheme.

Discounts

You’ll enjoy a free weekly coffee subscription, unlimited free coffee on-site and employee access to our complete professional coffee equipment catalogue at cost price as well as access to B Corp–certified partner discounts.

Culture

As a B Corp certified and proudly independent business, we offer meaningful, creative work within an industry-leading brand that is rooted in strong values and a truly people-first culture.