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Our plans from here are significant, and design is central to them.\nFor this role you'll\nHave an eye close to ours - you look at what Ffern makes and see an aesthetic you could carry and develop.\nBring senior design leadership, with experience line managing designers.\nWork with breadth across digital, print, packaging and physical product.\nBe exacting - a season holds dozens of variables, and you build a framework that keeps them all in order.\nKnow paper stocks, finishes, texture and construction, and how to brief a maker.\nHave built a design function before: structure, specialisms, roadmap, design language.\nBe commercially aware, ideally from a subscription or direct-to-consumer business.\nEnjoy working with an established creative identity and finding new possibilities within it.\nWe don’t expect anyone to arrive with every experience on this list. What matters most is your judgement, your curiosity, the quality of your work and the way you work with others.\nWhat you'll be doing\nBring each season to lifeOwn the design of everything a season needs - the artists we commission, the print, the packaging and the website - so it all lands on time, on brief, and works as one season.\nDevelop a bespoke gift for each season.\nBuild and run the seasonal design schedule, keeping work moving and flagging risks early.\nJoin up print and packaging, new product development, digital, content and campaigns, so the physical and digital work feel of a piece.\nCreative direction into executionTake creative direction from our founders and carry it through to finished work, resolving the detail yourself.\nBe the single senior point of contact for the founders on design, passing feedback back clearly to the team.\nBuild upon Ffern’s high standard across all of design.\nPrint, paper and packagingWork directly with printers and makers, briefing them 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