Six years with one confectionery company — packer to product designer.
Multi-disciplinary designer with three years' experience across web design and development, packaging and digital marketing. Comfortable owning a project end to end — from concept and Adobe CC artwork through to a live, SEO-optimised website built and maintained independently.
Experience
Product Designer (Degree Apprentice)
Sep 2023 – PresentBlack Liquorice Company Ltd
- Designed and built the company's full public e-commerce and trade websites from the ground up, using React with the Shopify Storefront API as a headless backend, and led the migration from Shopify to a Lovable-built React SPA.
- Own all technical SEO across both sites — prerendering, per-page metadata, JSON-LD structured data, 301 redirect mapping and blog content — alongside a full rewrite of product copy across 90+ active SKUs.
- Design and manage packaging ranges and general brand assets in Illustrator and Photoshop for internal brands and client projects, and produce motion assets in After Effects.
- Create graphic design assets and social post designs supporting marketing campaigns and product launches.
- Plan and send email campaigns to a list of 6,000–8,000 contacts using Brevo and Designmodo, and prototype site and campaign concepts in Magic Path.
- Built and run an automated weekly stock reconciliation workflow, converting warehouse PDF counts into CSV imports across both Shopify catalogues.
- Manage Google Merchant Center, Google Business Profile, Search Console and directory listings, and run backlink/PR outreach with journalists and bloggers.
- Ran a paid Reddit ad campaign to support a product giveaway.
- First point of contact for phone enquiries from public and trade customers, alongside general office administration.
Warehouse Packer
Nov 2020 – Sep 2023Black Liquorice Company Ltd
Joined on a zero-hours contract packing and preparing confectionery orders, before progressing internally into the design and marketing team — six years of continuous service with the company to date.
Education
BA (Hons) Creative Digital Design
Level 6 Apprenticeship — NCG, 2023 – Ongoing
NCG (Newcastle College Group). Modules include Commercial Realisation, UX and Digital Design Practice, plus a dissertation on the shift from skeuomorphism to flat design in interface design.
Level 3 Diploma, Digital Media Design
Worcester College, 2023