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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 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.
NEW YORK Associate Creative Director or Creative Director
Permanent employee, Full-time · New York,
120,000 - 220,000 $ per year
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are growing our JDO New York team and are looking for exceptional talent to join our Brand Design studio that sits on sunny Madison Avenue.
As a globally respected independent creative network, we are looking for a collaborative, hands-on and creatively ambitious individual with the drive to shape and lead our North American business as it continues to build.
This is a genuine opportunity to be part of a team on the ascent: ambitious, restless, and uncompromising about the talent we bring in. You could be an emerging ACD or an established CD (hence the wide salary band) – if you’re driven, creatively sharp, and ready to build something special, we’d love to talk.
WHO YOU ARE
We’re looking for a creative powerhouse to lead our New York studio through bold thinking and crafted excellence. As confident with the tools as you are directing work across time zones and geographies, you’ll thrive in a small, ambitious team and enjoy working with innovative clients on branding and packaging projects across CPG, beauty, regulated industries and alcohol.
You’ll play a key role in shaping our culture, defining brand futures and strengthening JDO’s creative reputation in the industry.
You’re a magnetic creative leader: bold in your thinking, generous in your leadership and trusted across the board. You drive creative excellence by holding the vision and lifting others to reach it with you. You see further – beyond the brief, beyond the project – and you bring people with you through clarity, care and conviction. You’re as emotionally intelligent as you are creatively astute, and you lead by inspiring belief in what’s possible.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You’ll lead from the centre, setting the tone for our creative output and guiding teams toward brave, big ideas that leave a mark. By connecting brand ambition to imaginative expression, you will be steering projects to meet client goals and beyond, using your perspective to challenge, clarify and explore the real opportunities.
It will be your responsibility to influence and shape how work moves through the studio, working across functions to ensure the process is smooth wholst balancing creative ambition with smart commercial viability.
Above all, you’ll be a visible, generous leader who mentors with belief, creating an environment where people feel empowered to take ownership and proud of the work we make together.
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 Junior Motion Graphics Designer
Permanent employee, Full-time · London or Tunbridge Wells
JOB DESCRIPTION
WHO YOU ARE
You’re a visual storyteller in the making: curious, motivated and eager to learn. You bring a passion for animation, a sharp eye for detail and a hunger to grow your craft. You show up ready to collaborate, take feedback with openness and support your team with energy and care. You’re beginning to connect your creativity to brand meaning and you want to create motion work that doesn’t just move – it moves people.
You’ll learn how to bring brand stories to life through motion. You’ll develop technical skill in both 2D and 3D software, while gaining confidence in the creative process – from idea to execution. You’ll deepen your understanding of what makes motion graphics emotionally powerful, strategically sharp and commercially viable. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to be a valued part of a collaborative creative team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will bring energy and curiosity to every brief, using your imagination to craft emotionally resonant motion work that breathes life into your clients' requests. With a solid foundation in After Effects, Premiere, and the wider Adobe Suite, you will produce high-quality 2D assets while diving into Cinema4D to level up your 3D animation skills. As a key member in a busy global agency, it will be your responsibility to keep the engine running smoothly by managing your own time and maintaining tidy workflow. Through clear communication, you will ensure your collaborators are always supported.
Beyond the technical skill, you will be part of a busy agency. You will grow through sharing discoveries, supporting peers, and asking the smart questions that keep projects on track and on budget.
Leading by example through your habits and mindset, you’ll play a key role in lifting the studio’s output and energy as your career beings 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 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.
NEW YORK Strategist or Senior Strategist
Permanent employee, Full-time · New York,
80,000 - 120,000 $ per year
JOB DESCRIPTION
A chance to shape and grow something new. We are looking for a Strategist or Senior Strategist to lead clear, thoughtful strategy for ambitious brands.
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.
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 brings energy to the process that gets them excited. You’re collaborative, curious and increasingly able to hold your own
with clients and creatives alike.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will lead the charge in the early phases of our projects, researching and synthesising data to shape smart, surprising perspectives that stretch the brief and keep the audience at the heart of the work. Through your work, you will craft inspiring narratives that build designers' excitement and make clients believe in new possibilities through strategic thought. When working with clients, you will present thinking with clarity and confidence, responding to feedback with maturity and building relationships past the brief. As a senior position, you will champion our junior strategists, mentoring with kindness and clarity with an open-door policy that allows them to thrive. You will keep a sharp eye on the scope and spot the "upstream" opportunities that add long-term value to our partnerships.
