Senior 3D Industrial Product Designer

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Job Description As we look to expand our 3D capabilities, we're looking for a strong and inspirational Senior 3D Industrial Product Designer or Design Director with pack experience to join our UK team. WHO YOU ARE You are an experienced 3D industrial product designer with a strong grounding in product design, branded packaging and physical brand experience. You bring confident creative judgement, technical understanding and commercial awareness to the design of distinctive, ownable and feasible 3D pack forms, structures and brand assets systems. RESPONSIBILITIES Creative thinking & crafting excellence You shape 3D pack and brand asset design from concept to craft, elevating the quality through your own ideas and by raising the standard across the team. You hold space for originality, precision and bravery, creating physical design that is strategically smart, visually powerful and technically considered. You apply AI, modelling and visualisation tools with purpose, enhancing storytelling, efficiency and design ambition. Strategic & brand alignment You hold the brief with confidence, translating brand strategy into compelling 3D pack and brand asset design while questioning and challenging where needed. You connect brand truth, category codes and physical form, ensuring the work feels distinctive, ownable and commercially relevant. You design with intent, not just instinct. Studio process & project delivery You manage multiple workstreams with care and clarity. You keep timelines on track, own your output and create structures that help the team deliver better. You’re a steadying influence who flags risks early and keeps quality moving at pace. Team collaboration & contribution You contribute to a creative culture where people feel seen, supported and inspired. You give feedback that builds clarity and confidence, and you’re present in critiques, rituals and reviews. You lift the work, and the people who make it. Leadership & mentoring You mentor juniors through your feedback, your clarity and your consistency. You know when to support, when to stretch and how to model great leadership behaviours. You create space for others to grow while staying accountable for the outcomes. Commercial acumen You understand how to manage your time and creative ambition within the scope of the project. You protect the integrity of the work by staying aware of budgets, timelines and value. You contribute to resourcing conversations and help manage external contributors with efficiency and care. EXPERIENCE Ideally we're looking for 5+ years of 3D structural design within a creative agency. LOCATION AND FLEXIBILITY This is a full-time, hybrid role ideally based in our Tunbridge Wells studio with 2 days from home, although we will consider applications for our London studio and can discuss part-time options. WHY WORK WITH US? What makes JDO special is how we work together. We value conviction without ego, generosity without fuss and craft that holds up in the detail. You’ll be encouraged to bring your point of view, ask better questions, learn from talented people around you and keep developing your voice. We’re proud to have been named Creativepool’s Best Agency to Work For in both 2024 and 2025. That recognition matters to us because it reflects the kind of place we are building: high standards, real collaboration and a team that shows up for each other. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer benefits that support rest, wellbeing, creativity and life outside work, including Fri-yays, where our studios close on the last Friday of most months, a day off on your birthday, end-of-year studio closure, an Employee Assistance Programme and a workplace nursery scheme to help with the cost of childcare. SOUNDS LIKE A FIT? LETS TALK. If this role sounds like something you'd be great at, we’d love to talk. ​Please apply via ​the application form and we'll be in touch. Please note: No recruiters please. Regretfully, we can't always respond to every applicant, but we do try. JDO UK JDO UK is home to two creative hubs: our headquarters in the historic heart of Royal Tunbridge Wells and our central London studio. Each of us is based at one location, but we work as one team; sharing ideas, collaborating across disciplines and supporting each other to deliver our strongest work.
Moving between the two studios gives us fresh perspectives and new energy, while helping ideas cross-pollinate. We’re part of JDO’s international network of designers, brand strategists and client partnership experts, partnering with some of the world’s most loved and influential brands. Our work spans brand and creative strategy, packaging and product design, innovation and sustainability, and experiential and campaign activation. Whatever the brief, we create brand worlds that connect, inspire and stay relevant in an ever-changing landscape.