Hiring: Junior Designer (PT or FT)

• Role: Junior Designer
• Contract: Permanent PT (option to go FT)
• Hours: Mon-Fri (flexible working hours)
• Salary: £28-32K (but can start at 2 days per week, pro-rata)
• Location: Hybrid at least 1 day per week in central London office

How to apply:

Please send us an email at apply@citizensofsoil.com with your CV along with a your portfolio and any visuals you’d like to share that show us how you could work with our brand.

What we’re looking for:

An artistic creative, this person will be responsible for designing the Citizens of Soil brand experience to live across digital and physical points (collateral, merch, social posts, ads, website, newsletters, packaging, etc.).

You’ll need a keen eye for detail and a strong gasp of the nuances that set us apart as a luxury lifestyle brand.

You will also be adept at evolving brand guidelines as our start-up grows and evolves, executing campaigns and assets that are all optimised for different channels while ensuring brand consistency at every touchpoint.

The ideal candidate:

• Has a portfolio or style of work across lifestyle, fashion, beauty, or general art over just that of a food business.
• Is very comfortable designing to fit the experience and use of e-comm platforms like Shopify, Klaviyo, or similar CMS and CRM tools.
• Bonus if you can work with motion and video editing, as well as photography for digital channels like website and social.
• Has strong accountability and a solid work ethic.
• Has a positive attitude and a tenacious character; things in our business can change quickly, so being comfortable reacting fast to unexpected opportunities and challenges will make this job exciting for you.
• Proactive, independent and autonomous, whilst also friendly and collaborative in a small team.
• Aligned with the mission and ethics of Citizens of Soil, specifically wanting to progress a mission around turning a commodity into a community to benefit people and planet.
• Enjoys working in small, entrepreneurial, start-up environments.
• Loves food & drink (it’s nice to take pleasure in what you do!)
• Has a current right to work and live in the UK.
  
• Can regularly commute into the central London office (Farringdon).

Your duties will include:

• Execute design briefs for commercial and marketing objectives into ideas that are clear, visually exciting, and innovative within our brand guidelines.
• Lead on the creation and final artwork for all brand print collateral, merchandise (think fashion), retail, advertising, and packaging.
• Develop digital marketing assets such as emails, advertising, website visuals, and social media content.
• Manage packaging projects with external designers where necessary, but be able to execute changes, edits, and help evolve the brand on pack to a high standard.
• Make creative briefs for photoshoots and videography, as well as support the direction in shoots alongside brand manager.
• Work with founder and brand team to create a clear brand identity and graphic templates for all channels.
• Working with channel leads to routine review asset performance and optimise to improve.
• Design all visual communication. Our brand aesthetic is everything, so you’ll work with the team to get assets and templates, but you will also be using Canva or Figma to spin up basic templates for the team to use as required.
• Advise on packaging, collateral, and merch materials.
• People & planet: Be a champion of our sustainability ethos and look at every decision from an impact lens.
  

In return, you’ll get:

• 28 days holiday, in addition to bank holidays (FT).
• An opportunity to grow within a scaling business.
• Flexibility to support your work-life balance.
• The sense of purpose that comes from working for something bigger than the business itself.
• The finest extra virgin olive oils we can source (we’ll keep you stocked up with the good stuff)!

Diversity & inclusion:

At Citizens of Soil, our vision is for a more fair, sustainable, and flavourful table. And that starts with our team. We’re cultivating a culture of inclusion because we know we need a diverse team to learn and grow. We embrace your unique contributions and will work to ensure you feel a sense of belonging.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

About Citizens of Soil:

We’re creating the UK’s favourite brand of olive oil; a show-stopping brand for modern citizens who care about quality, transparency, and sustainability.

We work with female-led groves who practise regenerative agriculture. Our oils represent the people and places they come from, with a line-up of inspiring producers across the Mediterranean under our brand, Citizens of Soil.

Our transparent supply chain means we can trace where every drop comes from and that fair pay is established from the beginning. We’re also a B Corporation using business as a force for good.

We’ve already successfully launched our products in Waitrose, Ocado, Booths, Selfridges, Fortnum & Masons, and with Michelin-starred chefs, with more new exciting new listings to come.

We've been called “the Rolex in a sea of Casio olive oils” by the Metro, with Vice saying “consider it a treat for your taste buds” and HuffPost saying our oils “get the chef’s kiss.” We’ve also been featured in “best oils” lists with The Times, Evening Standard, and Good Housekeeping.

See more about how we’re turning a commodity into a community:
citizensofsoil.com
instagram.com/citizensofsoil

As a team, we are ambitious, hard-working, fast movers, and we have exceptionally high standards of both our brand experience and business practices. We are powered by conviction, data, and creative thinking, and we are relentless in our pursuit of a better future for olive oil and the people and places behind it.

Closing date:

28th of Feb 2025.