Creative Lead

This is a hands-on role for someone who loves creating — not just directing.

You’ll be the sole visual creative in the business, responsible for producing, designing, and delivering all creative assets. From styling and shooting content, to designing packaging and pulling together paid ad creative — you’ll bring ideas to life with craft, care, and commercial instinct.

You’ll work closely with the founders and wider team to support marketing, ecommerce, product, and brand activity.

It’s a role for someone who’s energised by autonomy, craves variety, and wants to make beautiful things with impact.

About Sous Chef

At Sous Chef, we exist to make every day an adventure in cooking. Since 2012, we've been sourcing exceptional ingredients, cookware, tableware and gifts from around the world — inspiring both home cooks and professional chefs.

As an independent family-run company, we've built a reputation for uncommonly good taste and outstanding customer experience. With ambitious growth plans, we’re now hiring a Creative Producer to take the reins of our visual storytelling — and deliver consistently brilliant, hands-on creative across every touchpoint.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve our visual brand identity — bringing consistency, polish and personality to every single thing we share online and in print.
• Design and produce creative assets for digital and print — from paid ads, social content and email banners to packaging, POS, and inserts.
• Plan and lead small-scale shoots — whether you’re behind the camera or directing a freelancer.
• Style and photograph product content for campaigns, ecommerce and social — with or without a dedicated shoot team.
• Edit short-form video for social and email.
• Collaborate with the ecommerce and marketing teams to support launches, campaigns, seasonal activity and trade-driving creative.
• Work with external freelancers and creatives as needed.

What You’ll Bring

• A killer portfolio — showing excellent taste, variety, and work you’ve personally delivered.
• Strong design skills across digital and print — ideally in ecommerce, food, lifestyle or gifting.
• Comfortable using a camera and styling products for simple shoots (studio or natural light).
• Ability to edit video for reels, ads or email (even just basic cuts and overlays).
• Knowledge of packaging and print production is a bonus.
• Highly organised, self-motivated, and keen to get stuck into a growing business.
• A deep love of food, culture and storytelling.

About you

• You'll have 3-7 years of experience in house or in an agency, working on graphic design across digital and print (email, ecommerce, brochures, social).
• Commercial thinking - you'll have had demonstrable impact in the businesses you've worked with.
• Creative flair - you'll bring fresh ideas and energy to deliver joy and adventure to our customers.

Why Join Sous Chef?

• Be the visual heartbeat of one of the UK’s most loved cooking brands.
• Work closely with the founders and wider team in a business where ideas become reality fast.
• Shape creative across every customer touchpoint — from packaging to social.
• We're flexible on working pattern and location – full-time or part-time (minimum 3 days/week), we ask for 1-2 days/week in our north London office to get hands-on with product and collaborate in person.
• Flexible hours, hybrid working, generous staff discount, and a brilliant team.

To Apply

Please send us the following to careers@souschef.co.uk

1. Your CV – just the essentials.
2. Your portfolio – showing creative work you’ve personally made across digital and print. We’d love to see: social and ad creative; campaigns or launches; packaging or printed materials; any food, lifestyle or ecommerce content - essentially just send us what you think we need to see (we cannot open zip files, so please share content only through pdfs or full website urls).
3. A short note cover letter answering: Why Sous Chef? Tell us about one project you're proud of — and what you did to make it great. (Optional) Got any hands-on skills — like photography, video editing, or styling? Show us.

Love food? Love creating? Want to help build a beautiful brand with your own hands? We’d love to hear from you.