Senior Designer - Beauty
ZURU Edge
About The Role
ZUR U Group is s eeking a highly motivated and talented Senior Designer to join
our B eauty Vertic al design team, leading creative direction across the B eauty
Cosmetic s portfolio. This role is responsible for building the visual identity,
brand world, and creative output for a portfolio of exciting new beauty brands,
from early-stage development through to market launch.
This role requires a strong understanding of beauty, lifestyle, and consumer
brand aesthetic s, with the ability to translate cultural trends, consumer insights,
and c ategory codes into distinctive, best-in-class creative.
Roles & Responsibilities
Leadership & Direction
- Set the creative standard for the portfolio, providing clear direction, feedback, and support to drive professional growth.
- Champion strong creative decision-making, ensuring each brand has a clear and distinctive visual point of view.
- Lead creative brainstorming sessions, elevating brand representation across brands.
- Lead, direct, and mentor the junior team members, fostering a collaborative and creative environment.
Design & Campaign Creation
- Own the art direction of the beauty cosmetics brands, setting visual strategy and direction across all non-packaging brand touchpoints.
- Lead end-to-end 360 campaign development for brand launches, from creative concept and visual strategy through to photography direction, social, digital, and retail assets.
- Create, manage, and organise brand assets across campaign, social, digital, e-commerce, and advertising.
- Commission photographers, content creators, and agencies for campaigns.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, taking work from concept to final execution within deadlines.
- Identify new methods, techniques, and creative formats to enhance design and content execution.
- Other tasks as management may deem appropriate from time to time.
Brand Development
- Build detailed brand guidelines from scratch for each brand, covering tone of voice, visual aesthetic, content principles, and photography style.
- Create distinctive, ownable brand worlds for the brands — ensuring they feel relevant, differentiated, and commercially compelling.
- Ensure visual consistency and brand integrity across all communications as each brand progresses toward market.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Understand marketing initiatives, strategic positioning, and target audience across the beauty portfolio.
- Present and articulate creative concepts, brand worlds, and strategies to brand managers and senior leadership.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners to drive successful project outcomes.
- Collaborate across the wider Edge design team, BAU support, and cross-functional partners—including marketing, product, packaging, and content—to ensure cohesive, on-brand consumer touchpoints.
What You Will Bring
- 5–8 years’ professional design experience in a creative or design leadership role, ideally across beauty, lifestyle, wellness, fashion, FMCG, or consumer brand launches.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a design team while driving creative direction across multiple brands simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of beauty and personal care brand aesthetics, visual identity, content, and consumer-facing creative.
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Figma.
- Experience building brands from early-stage development through to market launch.
- Ability to interpret marketing briefs and translate them into aligned, inventive, and commercially relevant creative solutions.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach when working with internal teams, stakeholders, and external creatives.
- Excellent attention to detail, file management, task prioritization, and timeliness, with the ability to self-manage across multiple concurrent projects.
- Experience directing beauty-focused photography, campaign shoots, content creation, and external creative partners.