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Be what you believe
With a growing client portfolio, global presence and an evolved offering that meets the demands of today’s modern brands, we are expanding our team.
We want the best. People who perform at the highest level, who are driven to learn, to grow, and to push boundaries in pursuit of personal and professional achievement. Whose drive motivates others and whose presence creates an atmosphere of creative excellence.
At JDO, we create belief. This comes in the form of ideas, in change and in our people.
Our promise to every member of our team is that we will help them unlock their potential and become everything they’ve always believed they could be.
If that sounds like you, take a look at our open roles below.
Our Roles:
London Client Director/Senior Client Director
Permanent employee, Full-time · London
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a confident and commercially minded Client Director or Senior Client Director who leads with perspective and purpose. If you build strong relationships, bring clarity to complexity and know how to turn creative ambition into tangible results, we’d love to hear from you.
WHO YOU ARE
You’ll play a central role in one of our key global client partnerships – shaping the work, strengthening relationships and driving creative and commercial impact. You’ll bring strategic focus, creative ambition and commercial sharpness, balancing big-picture vision with the ability to make things happen day to day.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You’ll own the success and direction of your accounts, building close relationships with clients to connect the dots and deliver solutions. You will be a trusted advisor to senior clients, problem solving and spotting new opportunities to stretch and challenge us to deliver creative excellence. Above all, you will head up your team, mentoring with clarity and care to ensure everyone has the space and confidence to grow and succeed.
London Executive Client Partner
Permanent employee, Full-time · London
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a strategic and commercially minded Executive Client Partner who knows how to build trusted senior relationships and turn creative ambition into lasting brand impact. Based in our London studio, you’ll lead one of our flagship global brand partnerships, shaping the work, the relationship and the impact it creates. You’ll bring strategic clarity and commercial focus, partnering directly with senior client leaders to drive growth and creative distinction
WHO YOU ARE
You are someone able to balance big-picture thinking with hands-on leadership, guiding teams to deliver exceptional brand design and activation across every channel. Confident, collaborative and clear in your intent, you know how to inspire belief in the work and build relationships that last.
RESPONSIBILITES
You'll set the strategic direction for our most significant partnerships, helping clients see further and creating the space for bold thinking. You will lead your team to navigate change and build strong lasting relationships, build on trust, ambition and shared belief. You will oversee commercial success, responsible for decisions that protect and empower your work whilst ensuring accounts are running smoothly. More than this, you will champion your team, setting standards and mentoring to grow the future leaders, creating an environment where teams have the confidence to soar.
New York Senior Client Manager
Permanent employee, Full-time · New York, 100,000 - 120,000 $ per year
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a confident, collaborative and commercially aware Senior Client Manager. Working within our small but busy New York studio, you’ll be at the heart of our client partnerships, steering projects with energy and precision while helping clients unlock new opportunities. You’ll balance strategic thinking with day-to-day delivery, making sure JDO shows up with excellence and ambition across every brief, every relationship and every interaction.
WHO YOU ARE
You’re a calm and capable force within the team, leading with clarity, care and a strong sense of ownership. You manage multiple workstreams with precision, and you’re trusted to make sound decisions that balance client ambition with JDO’s creative and commercial needs. You’re becoming known as someone who brings others with them through your communication, consistency and deep commitment to doing things well. Everything you do reflects our Promise & Belief – not just in the quality of your work, but in the energy and intention behind it.
RESPONSIBILITES
You will lead complex accounts with strategic clarity and creative care, staying across the detail to keep the big picture in focus. You will build relationships with mid to senior-level clients built on trust and creative expertise. Running a tight ship operationally, you will manage resourcing and workflows, whilst using your commercial acumen to protect the work, spot opportunities and keep budgets on track. Above all, you’ll be a steady hand for the team, mentoring juniors and championing their growth.
SHANGHAI Design Director
Permanent employee, Full-time · Shanghai
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a Design Director to shape bold, beautifully crafted work from our Shanghai studio: guiding teams, inspiring clients and creating design that resonates across cultures. We want people who can bring fresh, well-crafted ideas to life and lead with creative excellence. Please complete the application form and we’ll be in touch.
WHO YOU ARE
RESPONSIBILITES
You’ll set the creative standard for your team, pushing for design that provokes emotion and stays true to brand purpose while strategically integrating AI where it adds the most value. By connecting bold creative to the bigger business picture, you’ll challenge assumptions and champion clarity across multiple workstreams. You’ll lead with a balance of creative ambition and commercial pragmatism. You will managing resources to ensure sustainable, high-quality delivery of work. Above all, you’ll foster an environment of creative growth, pushing the boundaries and mentoring your team to ensure everyone feels empowered to soar.
NEW YORK Design Director
Permanent employee, Full-time · New York,
120,000 - 140,000 $ per year
JOB DESCRIPTION
You’re a natural leader: strategic, insightful and creatively driven. You see the potential in every brief and the opportunity in every constraint. You bring calm confidence to the room, balancing clarity with care and guiding the team to deliver their best work. You inspire belief – in the work, in the process and in the people around you. Your vision is sharp, your instincts are trusted and your leadership lifts everything it touches.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You’ll set the creative standard for your team, pushing for design that provokes emotion and stays true to brand purpose while strategically integrating AI where it adds the most value. By connecting bold creative to the bigger business picture, you’ll challenge assumptions and champion clarity across multiple workstreams. You’ll lead with a balance of creative ambition and commercial pragmatism. You will managing resources to ensure sustainable, high-quality delivery of work. Above all, you’ll foster an environment of creative growth, pushing the boundaries and mentoring your team to ensure everyone feels empowered to soar.
London/Tunbridge Wells Senior Creative Artworker
Permanent employee, Full-time · London, Remote (UK), Tunbridge Wells
JOB DESCRIPTION
We're looking for a senior artworker, with 6+ years of creative artworking experience with in a packaging/brand design agency environment to join our UK studios.
WHO YOU ARE
You’re an expert in your craft: confident, calm, and precise. You have a deep understanding of how creativity translates into production and a passion for bringing bold ideas to life beautifully and accurately. You’re the steady hand others trust: a problem-solver, collaborator, and mentor who ensures every detail holds up under pressure. You combine exceptional technical ability with empathy, patience and pride in raising the bar for the whole team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will create repro-ready artwork, translating creative intent into flawless print execution and bringing expert knowledge of colour and finishing to your work. By maintaining rigorous version control, you will ensure projects move seamlessly through the studio. You will troubleshoot technical challenges and act as a bridge between creative and production teams, advising on efficient routes to execution that balance design ambition with practicality. Beyond the craft, you will act as a mentor for your colleagues, sharing your expertise and staying at the forefront of sustainable technologies and new materials to constantly elevate the impact of what we make.
LONDON Associate Strategy Director
Permanent employee, Full-time · London
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a strategic leader who knows personal care inside-out and can make it meaningful, fresh and brilliantly crafted. JDO Strategists are problem finders, investigators with tenacious minds that obsess over the most minute details to identify the real problem at the heart of a client’s brief.
WHO YOU ARE
You’re a confident strategic thinker and communicator who can guide a project, a client and a team. You know how to inspire belief – in the work, the thinking behind it, and the opportunity ahead. You bring energy to strategy, structure to complexity, and a generosity that grows those around you. You’re increasingly trusted by clients to lead conversations and by your team to shape the direction. You balance rigour and imagination, and are as interested in where a brand is going as where it’s been.
RESPONSIBILITES
You will shape and drive the strategic direction of our projects, using research and intuition to frame distinctive thinking that resonates with clients and sparks brilliant creativity. By translating complex brand architecture and business goals, you will deliver strategically sound narratives that unlock meaningful ideas for the design team. You will build relationships with clients build on trust and authenticity, asking the right questions and presenting bold thinking. Beyond the work, you’ll champion the growth of our strategists, mentoring with honest feedback and a curiosity that inspires the whole studio. You’ll balance this ambition with sharp commercial acumen, ensuring every proposal and pitch we lead is as deliverable as it is inspiring.
LONDON Senior Strategist (temp to perm)
Temp to perm employee, Full time · London
JOB DESCRIPTION
WHO YOU ARE
You’re a confident, inquisitive and culturally switched-on thinker. You know how to interrogate a brief, shape a brand story and hold the strategic thread from pitch to delivery. You combine analytical sharpness with creative empathy; just as comfortable framing a brand positioning as you are inspiring an idea. You’ve started to earn trust in the room, and are growing in your ability to lead clients, mentor others and see the bigger picture.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will lead the insight phase of our projects, digging into data and immersing yourself into cultural trends and tensions to frame strategic opportunities.You’ll translate that strategy into inspiring briefs and narratives that build belief and elevate the creative work, applying brand frameworks with both clarity and flexibility. As a leading voice in client conversations, you will present your thinking with confidence, shaping big decisions alongside senior leaders. In this role, you will be mentor to our junior strategists, helping them to grow in a supportive environment that challenges them to grow and unlock growth.
LONDON Strategist
Permanent employee, Full-time · London
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a strategist with 3+ experience within a packaging/brand design agency environment to lead clear, thoughtful strategy for ambitious brands. Particularly suited to those with experience in regulated categories.
WHO YOU ARE
You’re a clear thinker, an insightful listener and a natural connector of ideas. You’re gaining confidence in your voice and the value you bring, both in the room and on the page. You’re equally at home exploring cultural trends, digging into data or crafting a creative brief. You can structure strategy in a way that makes others feel confident, and bring energy to the process
that gets others excited. You’re collaborative, curious and increasingly able to hold your own
with clients and creatives alike.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will lead the shaping of early phases in projects, researching and crunching data to shape smart, surprising and sophisticated perspectives that stretch the brief and place our client's needs at the heart of our work. You will craft inspiring narratives that get designers excited and make clients believe in new possibilities. Using brand positioning and tone of voice workstreams, you will bridge the gap between brand and business outcomes whilst acting as a confident, adaptable voice in client conversations. Outside the main scope of work, you will act as a champion for our junior strategists and keep a sharp eye on scope and spotting both the "upstream" and "downstream" opportunities that add long-term value to our partnerships.
TUNBRIDGE WELLS Studio Coordinator (maternity leave cover, part-time)
Mat-cover employee, part-time · London
JOB DESCRIPTION
This is a 12-month maternity cover role for approximately 24 hours per week, based in our Tunbridge Wells studio. We’re ideally looking for studio presence on Wednesdays and Fridays, as these are key coordination days, with a preference for 9am to 6pm on those days. That said, we’re open to discussing flexible options and welcome applications from people returning to work or looking for part-time roles that fit around other commitments within our office hours of 9am to 6pm.
WHO YOU ARE
You’re reliable, thoughtful and calm in a busy environment. You like bringing order to complexity and take pride in being someone others can depend on. You care about people having clear information and the right support to do good work, and you’re comfortable asking questions and flagging issues early.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Our studio managers are the heartbeat of our busy creative studios. You do not need to be a designer, nor know the industry inside out. Instead, you will rely on common sense andtop-tier organisational skills to keep everything running smoothly in a fast-moving environment. You will own the daily puzzle of schedules, trackers, and bookings. You will stay one step ahead of shifting plans to ensure the team always has the latest information. From welcoming new starters and freelancers to spotting clashing bookings before they become headaches, you’ll be the go-to person who knows exactly when to jump in and help. Working closely with our Global Studio Manager, you’ll learn the ropes of high-level resource planning and priority balancing, all while creating the perfect conditions for our creative team to do their best work.
