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From a bold idea to revolutionising dog food, Years has grown into a fast-scaling business dedicated to helping dogs live longer, healthier lives.

In just three years, we’ve built an incredible startup, serving 30,000 happy customers while staying true to our mission. Our goal? To give dog owners a better, fresher, and healthier way to feed their pets. We provide human-cut, personalised meals tailored to each dog’s needs. This is with no preservatives, no compromises, just real nutrition delivered to their door.

Our customers span the UK, and we’re only just getting started. With ambitious plans to scale internationally, we’re continuing to transform how people care for their dogs.

Your Mission

As our Digital Designer, you’ll play a central role in accelerating our creative output and elevating the brand across every digital and physical touchpoint. You’ll join a fast-moving, performance-driven creative team responsible for producing high-impact design that drives growth, engagement, and customer trust.

1. Team Purpose & Challenges

• Brings the Years brand to life across paid social, email, web, print, and product touchpoints.
• Drives performance by producing fast, high-impact, platform-native creative.
• Tackles challenges around creative speed, last-minute requests, and elevating visual quality.

2. Strategic Focus & Priorities

• Improve creative turnaround times and boost paid creative performance.
• Develop reusable templates and landing page blocks to increase efficiency.
• Support long-term brand evolution and international scale through data-led design.

3. Reporting & Leadership

• Reports into the Chief Digital Officer (and Founder), working closely with a Senior Designer and UX Designer.
• Participates in design reviews and paid creative meetings.
• May take on more ownership of workflows as the team grows.

4. Collaboration

• Works closely with Paid Media, CRM, UX, and Social teams.
• Supports Product, PR, Partnerships, NPD, and Customer Service with ad-hoc creative.
• Produces performance assets, web/email visuals, landing pages, and product imagery.

5. Hands-On vs. Strategic Balance

• Primarily a hands-on role focused on execution & producing daily digital assets.
• Contributes to creative direction, optimisation, and trend-led ideas.
• Owns small initiatives like template creation and visual improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce high-performing paid social creatives for Meta and TikTok.
• Design visuals for email newsletters, website banners, landing pages, Amazon listings and core web journeys.
• Develop digital downloads such as guides or resources to support lead-generation and email sign-ups.
• Edit and optimise imagery for the website, product pages, PR requests, and email.
• Contribute to paid creative meetings, bringing concepts, ideas, and trend insights.
• Respond quickly and effectively to urgent, ad-hoc creative needs across the business.
• Support organic social visuals, and the wider design team when required.

Requirements

What You’ll Bring

• 2–3 years’ experience in digital design within a fast-paced or growth-focused environment.
• Strong proficiency in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and core design tools.
• Proven ability to create high-converting, platform-native paid social creatives for Meta and TikTok.
• Confidence designing across multiple aspect ratios (1:1, 9:16, 4:5, 16:9).
• Experience creating image-led email newsletters optimised for engagement and conversion.
• Ability to produce Amazon or web-ready imagery, banners, product visuals, and high-performance landing pages.

Who You Are

• Proactive, curious, and tuned into creative trends across platforms.
• Fast-paced, energetic, and comfortable moving quickly.
• Open to feedback with a genuine desire to learn and improve.
• A creative problem solver who challenges conventions.
• Collaborative, confident, and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders.
• Flexible and adaptable when priorities shift.
• Highly organised, visually meticulous, and able to work independently.

Benefits

What’s In It For You? Years Benefits

• Extensive health care cover including full cancer coverage and a choice of hospitals or consultants (AXA top package)
• Annual £250.00 Learning & Development budget for courses, books or other self-learn activities
• Annual £100.00 Wellbeing budget
• Up to 2 weeks working abroad per year (selected roles)
• Monthly recognition through our Yappa of The Month programme
• 1 Volunteer day per year – dog themed or not: it’s your choice!
• Subsidised employee groups – from five a side to padel there’s loads to get involved in or the chance to start up your own group
• Quarterly subsidised team events from Axe throwing, crazy golf to cocktail making
• Exclusive discounts on Years and Years treats for yourself and friends/family
• Lunch & Learn programme – from dog first aid to financial savviness we’ve got sessions planned to cover all kinds of topics
• Casual dress
• Your birthday off or different day if it falls on a non-working day
• Ability to sell any unused holiday back to Years at the end of the Holiday Year (maximum 1 working week)