Freelance Garden Designer
Application Closing Date:
2nd May 2025
Job Description:
An exciting and unique opportunity to work with a start-up garden design and plants business, following investment from Dragon’s Den. Initially the role is as a part-time freelancer, but there is scope for a permanent role in future as we grow.
FREELANCE GARDEN DESIGNER
(WITH OPTION FOR PERMANENT ROLE IN FUTURE)
Start Date: ASAP
Company: Dig Club Ltd.
Location: Flexible (More details below)
Instagram: dig_club
Deadline: Friday 2 May 2025
Role and responsibilities:
- Interpret client briefs and manage client relationships
- Create, edit and personalise planting plants with the assistance of pre-planned templates, and with oversight from our lead designer
- Source plants from our network of partner nurseries, including managing orders, delivery schedules and substitutions
- Attending client sites and acting as the face of the brand
- Managing finances, including reconciliation of planting budgets
- Future potential involvement in business development, including content creation, website development, marketing and PR
Skills required:
- Recognised garden design qualification (can still be in training)
- Passion for plants and design, with good core plant knowledge
- Strong technical skills, including Photoshop, InDesign, Vectorworks, Sketch up and Google Docs.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Flexible, reliable and confident, with strong problem solving skills
- Full, clean driving licence, ideally with experience driving vans
Salary and benefits:
- £30 per hour freelance basis, with scope for future negotiation
- Discretionary annual bonus
- On-going training and development
Location:
- Flexible. A combination of remote working, working with the team at our hub in Battersea, London and site visits around the UK.
To apply:
Please send your CV, a small portfolio of work, and a covering email to our Head of Design and co-founder Alex Hollingsworth at alex@digclub.co.uk.
Application deadline: Friday 2nd May 2025