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About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Design Director to support and lead day-to-day design delivery from our Manhattan studio, helping to set a high creative standard across the team. We are only interested in candidates with packaging and branding experience, specifically within Personal Care, Beauty and Alcohol. You will also need to be prepared to work within the tobacco and oil categories.
Responsibilities
- Set the creative standard for your team, guiding and shaping the work to meet JDO’s high bar for originality, relevance and beauty.
- Push for design that provokes emotion, inspires belief and holds true to the brand’s purpose.
- Inspire confident, strategic use of AI across the team, knowing where it adds value and where human creativity must lead.
- Connect the creative to the bigger picture.
- Understand your client’s business, the audience’s mindset and the brief’s intent, and use that knowledge to shape bold, brand-right solutions.
- Challenge assumptions thoughtfully and champion clarity throughout.
- Lead multiple workstreams with confidence and care.
- Make informed choices around project structure and resource allocation, based on clear understanding of brief complexity, timings and budgets.
- Work closely with account and production teams to keep work flowing and teams supported.
- Help create a studio environment that fosters bravery, clarity and growth.
- Contribute with presence, guide with generosity and ensure conversations stay constructive and focused.
- Help your teams feel energised, empowered and part of something bigger.
- Coach and support others by modelling high standards and holding space for learning.
- Give clear, thoughtful feedback and help people grow through clarity, care and stretch.
- Take ownership of project scope, creative viability and team resourcing.
- Balance creative ambition with sustainable delivery: ensuring time is tracked, hours are respected and decisions support long-term value.
- Guide others in understanding how commercial clarity empowers creative freedom.
Requirements
- Have a strong portfolio across global FMCG (personal care, beauty and alcohol) packaging
- Be a team builder, able to mentor more junior team members and bring clarity to others working across our global offices
- Work with pace without losing sight of the bigger picture
- Have 6+ years in agency environments delivering across categories and multiple workstreams
Skills
- Packaging
- Branding
- Creative thinking
- Strategic thinking
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- AI
- Communication
- Project management
- Commercial acumen
Location
- New York
- Manhattan
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 6+ years
About the Company
- JDO is an award-winning design agency, expertly helping brands deliver on their promises by creating experiences people can see, feel, and believe.
- With boundless creativity and craftsmanship, we craft identities and brand worlds that drive success.
- Partnering with visionaries and disruptors alike, we turn brand promises into powerful belief.
- Our promise to every member of our team is a career that matters. One where your talent is recognised, your growth is supported, and your individuality is celebrated.
- Be part of a team that brings energy, generosity and craft into every room – and shows up for each other, every single day.
- Together, we design for distinction, push boundaries and stay curious, always seeking a better way.
- We believe creativity thrives on diversity – of background, identity, experience and thought.
- We’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels safe, seen and supported to grow.
- From our studio in midtown Manhattan, just steps from the Empire State Building, we partner with clients across North America.
- As part of this small but ambitious team, you’ll help shape the culture of the studio, building smart ways of working, setting a high creative bar and bringing our values of bravery, generosity and clarity into everything we do.
- We’re part of JDO’s international network of designers, strategists and client partnership experts, working with some of the world’s most loved and influential brands.
- Our work spans brand and creative strategy, packaging and product design, innovation and sustainability, and experiential and campaign activation.
- Whatever the brief, we create brand worlds that connect, inspire and stay relevant in an ever-changing landscape.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe creativity thrives on diversity – of background, identity, experience and thought.
- We’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels safe, seen and supported to grow.