WPA Pinfold

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Senior Brand Communications Designer

WPA Pinfold builds visually intelligent brands – making brands easier to understand, trust, and choose. We’re an independent brand design specialist with over 175 global awards, known for conceptually led thinking, craft excellence and work that genuinely makes a difference.

We work in specialist, mutually supportive teams that challenge the status quo and deliver meaningful brand solutions across print and digital.

The role

We’re looking for an ideas?led Brand Communications Designer with a passion for typography and storytelling to join our Leeds studio.

You’ll bring a visually intelligent approach to everything you do – crafting eye?catching, thoughtful design that helps brands communicate clearly and stand out. Working as part of one of our design teams, you’ll collaborate closely with colleagues in strategy, planning and other creative disciplines to deliver world?class work for global brands and independent specialists.

This role suits someone at the beginning of their senior design journey, or a strong mid?weight ready to step up in a specialist design studio environment.

What you’ll do

  • Create intelligent concepts and design solutions rooted in brand strategy and positioning
  • Translate strategic thinking into clear, compelling creative ideas
  • Maintain an objective, ideas?first mindset focused on meaningful outcomes
  • Collaborate with internal teams, creative partners and client specialists
  • Act as a trusted creative partner to clients, helping build long?term relationships
  • Champion the brand, confidently challenging and interpreting feedback where needed
  • Help deliver confident, engaging client presentations

What we’re looking for

  • A genuine passion for meaningful brand communications
  • Experience working across multiple projects, refining ideas to find the strongest solution
  • A drive to create world?class work through quality of thinking and craft
  • 5+ years’ experience in communications or brand design
  • Strong knowledge of relevant design software
  • A love of visual storytelling
  • The ability to blend creative and technical skills with typographic flair

Why WPA Pinfold?

We’re proudly employee?owned. As an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), everyone here is a partner in the business. That means a genuinely inclusive culture, shared responsibility for quality, and a real stake in our collective success. It’s also why so many of our people have been with us for over a decade.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Beautiful converted Victorian library studio in Leeds
  • Hybrid working
  • AXA wellbeing support
  • Workplace pension contribution
  • Up to 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
  • Potential tax?free profit bonuses
  • Personal development budget
  • Active social committee
  • Big Friday Breakfast (free, communal)
  • Interest?free rail season ticket loans
  • Electric vehicle leasing
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Free parking

After probation:

  • Opportunity to become a partner in our Employee Ownership Trust, with associated benefits

If you’re smart, eager, ideas?led and ready to do the best work of your career, we’d love to hear from you.

  • Apply with your CV and portfolio to recruitment@wpa-pinfold.co.uk
Apply for this role

We’re always on the look out for great people to join our team. We’re actively recruiting for a number of roles within our Leeds studio.

If you’re interested in joining us, send us your CV and work samples to recruitment@wpa-pinfold.co.uk

WPA Pinfold is an Employee Owned Trust (EOT)

EveryOne Together

We are proudly employee-owned. We’re in this together, we’re more than employees, we’re all owners, each with a stake in the business. That’s why for us it’s personal.

WorkOut

We believe that life is about more than just work—it’s about balancing work, learning and play. Our understanding of the world around us makes us who we are. Travel broadens the mind and we feel it is critically important that we are all exposed to different cultures to help us better serve our global clients.

Why work at WPA Pinfold

So what makes it a great place to work?

Employee-owned business

Workplace pension contribution

Up to 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Potential income tax free bonuses

Personal development budget

Active social committee

Big Friday Breakfast – Free communal breakfast

Interest-free loans for rail season tickets

Electric vehicle leasing

Cycle to work scheme

Free parking

Free fruit

Charitable mindset, donating a percentage of profits to worthy causes

An unforgettable building

Sights set on achieving B-Corp status