THE JESSICA McCORMACK BRAND
Renowned diamond jeweller Jessica McCormack designs exceptional jewellery for the modern woman, creating heirlooms for future generations. Artfully blending modernity and timelessness, her mission is to create jewellery that generations of women will wear and adore.
Since launching in 2008, the brand has become known for effortlessly melding the traditional and the contemporary, combining Georgian techniques and expert craftsmanship with modern-day design influences, eschewing trends for a unique, heirloom-inspired aesthetic. Conscious of the demands placed on today’s modern woman, Jessica designs each piece to stand out, but also to work effortlessly within a client’s lifestyle and existing wardrobe.
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
To lead and elevate the visual direction of the brand across digital and physical touchpoints, translating creative direction into cohesive, refined and high-performing assets. This role will play a key part in shaping the brand’s visual identity across e-commerce, campaigns and content, ensuring a consistent, elevated and recognisable aesthetic.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support Head of Creative on art direction across campaigns, e-commerce and brand content
- Supporting Head of Creative on image selection and looking after cropping, retouching and provide shoot support
- Create and roll out campaign assets across homepage, email, paid and organic social and for printed assets
- Translate brand identity into considered, high-quality digital and print executions, to include lookbooks, invitations, merch, stickers and all other collateral
- Take initial creative direction and expand it into moodboards and eventually campaign assets
- Build scalable toolkits and ensure consistency across all outputs
- Work closely with internal teams and external partners to deliver cohesive creative
- Collaborate with printers and suppliers to achieve refined, high-quality print finishes
- Ensure all work maintains a strong sense of storytelling and visual cohesion
- Balance fast-turnaround content with maintaining brand integrity
- Manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Education:
- Degree or equivalent experience in Graphic Design, Art Direction or a related field
Experience:
- Strong art direction skills, including image selection, cropping and overseeing retouching
- Digital-first mindset with extensive experience across web, e-commerce and mobile
- Proven experience designing campaign assets across digital channels
- Solid grounding in graphic design across editorial, digital and print formats
- Strong understanding of print processes and materials
- Experience creating lookbooks, decks, invitations and typography-led layouts
- Strong typography, layout and composition skills
- Experience building and rolling out creative systems and toolkits
- Basic motion design skills and understanding of animation in digital
- Experience working collaboratively across creative, marketing and external teams
IDEAL CANDIDATE
- Thinks in terms of storytelling and cohesive visual worlds, not just individual outputs
- Able to design in a refined, minimal and elevated way
- Strong visual taste with a clear understanding of luxury and contemporary culture
- Brings references from fashion, design, editorial and hospitality rather than trends
- Creates simple, distinctive and ownable design assets
- Highly collaborative, open to feedback and confident working in an iterative process
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ideally has experience within luxury, fashion, jewellery or lifestyle brands
- Strong understanding of how design translates across both digital and physical outputs