We're looking for a brilliant digital designer to create standout, customer-focused creative that powers our trading activity, campaigns and propositions.
You’ll bring ideas to life—from concept through to delivery—combining strong design craft with bold, concept-led thinking. As a trusted design expert and emerging art director, you’ll shape and evolve ideas, guide UX, and coach others to raise the bar across everything we do.
You’ll make sure every piece of work is on‑brand, insight‑led and delivers for our customers and our business. With a curious, forward‑thinking mindset, you’ll explore how AI‑powered tools can help us move faster, think smarter and push creative boundaries—while using them responsibly.
If you love turning ideas into impactful digital experiences and want to help shape the future of design at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a brand guardian for Tesco, ensuring all creative outputs are aligned to brand guidelines while effectively managing key stakeholders.
- Lead hands‑on creative delivery, shaping concepts from brief through to execution with a strong focus on quality, consistency, innovation, and attention to detail.
- Provide clear art direction across campaigns and propositions, setting the creative vision and guiding designers, copywriters, and partners to deliver cohesive outcomes.
- Support and develop designers by offering direction, ensuring robust QA processes, and prioritising effectively across multiple campaigns.
- Contribute to wider Tesco projects and processes, ensuring all creative is optimised for digital channels.
- Collaborate across the business to present and sell creative ideas, building strong, trusted stakeholder relationships.
- Champion continuous learning and development, promoting industry best practice and the responsible use of AI within the creative process.
- Leverage AI tools (e.g. ideation, mood boarding, prototyping, image generation, optimisation) to enhance creative output and efficiency.
- Line‑manage and develop designers, setting clear objectives and supporting growth in conceptual thinking, art direction, and storytelling.
- Uphold the Tesco Business Code of Conduct, acting with integrity and due diligence at all times.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of digital design experience, ideally within eCommerce.
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS and a proactive approach to using AI in creative workflows.
- Experience managing priorities in fast‑paced environments, using workflow tools where needed.
- Advanced skills in layout, typography, image editing, and motion/animation.
- Confident influencing and collaborating with stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
- Strong track record in campaign concepts, art direction, and visual storytelling.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor and provide creative direction to designers.
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Cloud and modern design tools (e.g. Figma).
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. We are an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.
