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Freelance Garden Designer
Freelance Garden Designer
Application Closing Date: 2nd May 2025
Freelance
Apply by Email: alex@digclub.co.uk
Job Description:

Freelance Garden Designer
(With option for permanent role in future)

Company: Dig Club Ltd.
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Flexible (see details below)
Instagram: @dig_club
Application Deadline: Friday 2 May 2025

An exciting and unique opportunity to work with a start-up garden design and plants business following investment from Dragon’s Den.

Initially, this role is offered on a part-time freelance basis, with scope to develop into a permanent position as the company grows.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Interpret client briefs and manage client relationships

  • Create, edit, and personalise planting plans using pre-prepared templates, with oversight from our Lead Designer

  • Source plants from our network of partner nurseries, including managing orders, delivery schedules, and substitutions

  • Attend client sites and act as the face of the brand

  • Manage finances, including reconciliation of planting budgets

  • Potential future involvement in business development, including content creation, website development, marketing, and PR

Skills Required

  • Recognised garden design qualification (candidates currently in training will be considered)

  • Passion for plants and design, with strong core plant knowledge

  • Strong technical skills, including Photoshop, InDesign, Vectorworks, SketchUp, and Google Docs

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Flexible, reliable, and confident, with strong problem-solving abilities

  • Full, clean driving licence (ideally with experience driving vans)

Salary and Benefits

  • £30 per hour on a freelance basis, with scope for future negotiation

  • Discretionary annual bonus

  • Ongoing training and development

Location
Flexible working arrangement combining:

  • Remote working

  • Time with the team at our hub in Battersea, London

  • Site visits around the UK

To Apply
Please send your CV, a small portfolio of work, and a covering email to Head of Design and Co-Founder Alex Hollingsworth at alex@digclub.co.uk.

Application deadline: Friday 2 May 2025