Senior Creative Designer

Fresh Food, Happy Dogs.

We believe dogs deserve the healthiest, most natural and tastiest meals - with none of the nasties. That’s why we make FRESHly prepared food, cooked just like you would at home and delivered direct to our customers in perfect portions. As a B-Corp certified company, you’re joining a sustainable business that genuinely cares about our people, our products and our impact on the planet. Our goal is simple: to help dogs live healthier, happier, and longer lives, while leaving humans smiling after every interaction.

We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave), hand delivered the very first Butternut Box. Today, we feed hundreds of thousands of hungry dogs across the UK and Europe - but we won’t stop until we’re feeding dogs everywhere. To get there, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work for us.

🐾 The job:

Please note that this role will close on: 26th June 2026

We're looking for a Senior Designer who can own projects end-to-end, balance craft with commercial impact, and raise the quality and consistency of everything our Studio ships.

You'll lead creative projects from concept to delivery across a varied mix of work: CRM, paid social, packaging, OOH, direct sales and more. You'll mentor a small but mighty Studio team. And you'll help us figure out where AI fits in the workflow before the rest of the industry does.

This isn't a brief-takes-and-execute role. It's an own-the-outcome role. You'll move the needle on performance, raise the bar on craft, and report into the Creative Studio Lead.

What you’ll do:

• Take full ownership of creative projects, leading them from concept to delivery across CRM, paid social statics, packaging, direct sales, OOH and more.
• Act as a pioneer in AI-led design, proactively integrating emerging tools into your workflow to enhance ideation, production, personalisation and efficiency.

👀 What we're looking for:

Requirements

• Five or more years of in-house or agency experience, with a portfolio that shows work taken end-to-end across digital and print.
• Strong conceptual thinking matched by exceptional execution.
• Expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience actively integrating AI tools into your creative process. You can name specific tools and recent applications, not just theoretical interest.
• Comfort with performance data. You can interpret it, report on it, and apply it to your next iteration.
• Confidence as a mentor. You've developed junior designers before and can give an example of someone whose work improved because of you.
• Comfort with end-to-end print production: dielines, bleed, colour profiles, print specs.
• Calm in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.

Desirable

• On-set: experience art-directing photoshoots, planning content capture, or being on-set for our owned channels.
• Motion: ability to concept, storyboard or direct video and motion work.

⏳ The interview process:

1. Initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner, carried out remotely.
2. Sometimes the process will include a take home task, or a presentation of some kind.
3. Skills interview, usually carried out remotely.
4. Behaviours interview, usually carried out in person.
5. Depending on the seniority of the role you're applying for, there may be a final Leadership interview as a final step.

We usually expect our interview process to take 3-5 weeks, end to end.

🙌 Our benefits:

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service up to 5 years
• 5 additional, paid 'paws' days off per year dedicated to your learning, development or personal wellbeing. Hit pause when you need it most
• £500 personal learning & development budget to sharpen your skills
• Share options grant - everyone owns a piece of Butternut's success.
• A significant discount on our Fresh food, to keep your own dogs as healthy as our customers
• Enhanced parental leave
• Flexible core working hours
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Paid time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years service at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Peggy, Chief, Louis, Hansen, Winnie and many more….)

💡 Important things to note:

• We recommend getting your application in as soon as possible. We reserve the right to close the role early.

❗️We believe in a seat at the table for everyone.

Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that to make the best food for all dogs, we need a team that represents all humans. We celebrate different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We are specifically committed to increasing representation from underrepresented groups. We want a strong, diverse team built from different identities and lived experiences. We’re not perfect, but we are dedicated to the ongoing work of building an inclusive, supportive place where you can do the best work of your career.