About

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 – Present

Black 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 2023

Black 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

Skills

Web & Development

ReactShopify Storefront APILovableMagic Path

Design

Adobe IllustratorPhotoshopAfter EffectsPackaging design

Marketing

Technical & on-page SEOBrevoDesignmodoGA4Search ConsoleGoogle Merchant Center

Ways of working

Project ownershipSelf-directed deliveryCross-team collaborationClient-facing communication