Middleweight Digital Designer

Overview

Sainsbury’s is looking for a Middleweight Digital Designer to join its Zest in-house creative team in London. This role sits within a large-scale retail marketing environment where the work spans multiple well-known brands and channels, with a strong emphasis on digital creative, brand consistency, and high-quality visual delivery.

As part of the team, you’ll help shape design output across Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, Habitat, Nectar, and own brands/new business. The position offers the chance to work in a fast-moving setting, contribute to a broad mix of projects, and grow alongside experienced creatives in an environment that values development, collaboration, and strong design standards.

What you will do

You will turn creative briefs into polished design solutions that reflect each brand’s identity and creative direction. The role involves producing design work across digital, print, and integrated campaigns, with a particular focus on dynamic and animated creative content.

Working closely with designers and copywriters, you’ll help apply visual systems across multiple channels, maintain consistency in execution, and support the wider creative output of the Zest team. You’ll also stay informed on current design trends, contribute to the quality of the team’s output, and help guide and support other designers where needed.

What makes this role attractive

This opportunity places you in a creative team with exposure to a wide range of brands and projects. You’ll be part of an inclusive employer that supports learning, encourages movement across the business, and offers flexibility where possible. The company also provides a broad benefits package, including colleague discounts, pension support, wellbeing resources, and family leave benefits.

Essential experience

To be successful, you should already have experience working as a digital designer either in-house or within an agency. You’ll need a portfolio that demonstrates strong digital design work aligned to brand guidelines and creative direction, along with solid capability in communication design, layout, typography, and visual hierarchy.

You should be comfortable taking a brief from concept through to delivery, producing work across multiple platforms and channels, and contributing to integrated campaigns that may include digital, brand, and print outputs.

Benefits

The rewards package includes a 10% colleague discount on shopping online and in store at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, and Habitat, with periodic increases to 15% during the year. Additional support includes a pension scheme, life cover, and eligibility for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary depending on business results.

You’ll also receive annual holiday entitlement with the option to buy up to one extra week of leave. Other benefits mentioned include season ticket loans, a cycle-to-work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance access, retail discounts, and an employee assistance programme.

Family support benefits include up to 26 weeks of paid maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks of paid paternity leave. Additional benefit details may apply depending on length of service and eligibility.

Additional information

This role is part of a collaboration between Sainsbury’s DTD and hackajob to find suitable professionals for the position. The company notes that the opportunity is within a retail business operating at scale, with teams working across brand planning, brand communications, creative, digital marketing, CRM and loyalty, Nectar 360, and insights.

The business also highlights its commitment to inclusivity, development, and encouraging colleagues to try new opportunities across the wider organisation.