About us

We’re a global brand and packaging consultancy built for brands that want to lead, not follow.

Born in Australia and shaped by one of the world’s most progressive food and wine cultures, we create work that is strategically smart, commercially powerful, and beautifully crafted.

As Co-Partnership enters a new era of growth, we’re seeking a visionary London-based Design Director to join us.  
 

Your role

London - Full time - WFH/Studio Hybrid

Lead projects end to end, from discovery to delivery, setting the creative standard while staying close to the craft. Deliver standout brand, packaging, innovation, and activation work for global drinks and food brands, working alongside a highly experienced, collaborative team. 

You’re someone who:

• Thinks strategically but designs instinctively
• Cares equally about craft and commercial performance
• Knows the rules — and when to break them
• Can work hands-on, direct a team, or present to a client
• Leads with ideas but builds on the ideas of others 

Our philosophy: Teamwork, not stardom. 

Ready to shape the next chapter of our London studio? Send your CV, portfolio (and what you order at the bar) to: [email protected] with the subject ‘London Design Director Application – YOUR NAME’.

Not open to recruiters at this time.

Full-time role based in our Sydney studio (WFH on Tuesdays and Thursdays).

Co-Partnership is entering an exciting new chapter. As we grow in our services, we're seeking visionary Design Directors to lead global projects from our Sydney studio. As a team of drinks specialists, we're looking for brand thinkers who craft and direct commercial solutions through distinctive design, packaging and storytelling. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of the team that takes the agency into the future, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead branding projects, creating or transforming visual identities, packaging, brand assets, and brand books
• Collaborate with strategists, other designers, and production specialists to develop relevant ideas across multiple projects
• Work with client feedback creatively and constructively
• Present ideas with clarity and passion to local and global clients
• Introduce new ways of working to enhance the agency’s capabilities

Experience & Skills

• Experience in drinks branding, packaging, and visual storytelling
• An exceptional eye for craft & detail, with a passion for print finishes
• Strategic thinking, conceptual ideation, and visual & verbal communication skills
• Leadership ability with a positive approach & learner mindset
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite & Figma

Culture, Training, and Perks

• Sponsorship and relocation packages available
• Work-from-home days on Tuesdays & Thursdays (we like to start and end the week together)
• Weekly team inspo sessions
• End of week cheeseboard, drinks tastings, and games
• Quarterly cultural events, including volunteering days and industry immersion events
• Role relevant training and development
• Cake on your birthday!
• La Marzocco coffee machine, Single O beans, and snacks
• Timesheet incentive (1 additional day of leave for timesheets completed on time)
• Work anniversary reward voucher
• Offers up to 20% cash back on top brands like Hertz, The Iconic, Hello Fresh, booking.com, and Adore Beauty as well as 5% discounts on Uber Eats, JB Hi-Fi, Big W, Myer, Dan Murphy’s and more
• Discounts on electricity, gas, and energy companies with Simply Energy
• Discounts on health insurance from Bupa and Australian Unity

To Apply

Email your CV, portfolio, and favourite drink to [email protected] with the subject ‘Sydney Design Director Application – YOUR NAME’.

Brand, Packaging, Innovation & Activation

Sydney / Hybrid / Part-time / April start

We’re looking for an experienced, commercially astute Operations Lead to provide strategic oversight and direction across the inner workings of a growing global creative agency.

This is a senior role focused on operational leadership, governance and decision-making. You’ll sit at the centre of the agencies operations, shaping how systems, people, process and commercial disciplines operate together as the business scales. The role is designed to focus on judgement, prioritisation and continuous improvement, rather than day-to-day administration, and is supported by a full-time People & Culture Manager and a part-time Studio Coordinator.

While part-time, this is a trusted and influential position. It suits someone who values flexibility but operates with a high degree of ownership and accountability. As the agency continues to grow, there is clear scope for the role to expand in both remit and days.

Why Co-Partnership?

We’re a specialist brand and packaging agency with a focus on beverage and food. That focus means we work on some of the most dynamic, creative and commercially complex projects in the industry, often at moments of real change for our clients. While our strategists, designers and client teams are busy shaping brands, your role is to ensure the agency itself is operating clearly, confidently and sustainably behind the scenes.

• Work closely with senior leadership
  You’ll partner directly with the Agency Director and leadership team, contributing to how the business runs and grows.
• Shape how a global agency operates
  With studios in Sydney and London, this role plays a key part in consistency, governance and connectivity across regions.
• Real autonomy, real trust
  This is not a task-driven admin role. You’ll be trusted to identify risks, propose improvements and implement change.
• Flexibility that’s genuinely respected
  We’re open to flexible hours, part-time structures and remote work (with an expectation of at least two days per week in-studio for collaboration and culture).
• A values-led, connected team
  We care deeply about how we work together. Connection, respect and partnership sit at the core of Co-Partnership.

Why this role? 

This is a rare opportunity to step into an operations leadership role where your judgement genuinely matters. You won’t be inheriting a broken business or asked to rebuild from scratch, instead, you’ll take stewardship of a solid operational foundation and have the autonomy to refine, elevate and future-proof it as the agency grows globally.

You’ll work closely with the Agency Director and Founders, operating at the centre of the business and influencing how growth, culture and commercial discipline come together. Supported by a People & Culture Manager and Studio Coordinator, you’ll be free to focus on oversight, decision-making and improvement, rather than consistent day-to-day administration.

While part-time, this is a trusted and impactful role designed for someone who values flexibility without compromising on responsibility. As the agency continues to scale, there is clear opportunity for the role to expand in scope and days, shaped by the impact you make and the direction you want to take it.

What you’ll do

• Act as a trusted operational lead and decision partner to senior leadership
• Provide global oversight of agency operations, spanning systems, finance, compliance and infrastructure
• Own and evolve operational governance, including policies, processes and ways of working as the business scales
• Proactively identify, assess and mitigate operational and commercial risk ahead of issues arising
• Partner with People & Culture, Creative and Client Service leadership to ensure workflow and resourcing support both team health and commercial outcomes
• Bring structure, clarity and decisive follow-through to a fast-moving, high-growth environment

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated senior experience (typically 5+ years) in an Operations role within a creative, brand, design or packaging agency
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, navigating differing personalities and priorities with confidence
• Calm, considered and pragmatic, with the judgement to be empathetic when appropriate and assertive when required
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to apply it practically in a fast-moving environment
• Highly systems-literate and improvement-driven, with a track record of strengthening processes as businesses scale
• Disciplined and structured, while remaining flexible and responsive to changing business needs
• Comfortable taking ownership, operating as a trusted senior partner rather than an order-taker
• Demonstrated people management experience, with strong delegation skills

How this role works

• Part-time (4 days per week, structured with UK cross over time allowances)
• Hybrid working, with at least 2 days per week in the Sydney studio required (we operate on a Mon/Wed/Fri in studio, Tues/Thurs from home model)
• Opportunity for the role to grow in scope and days as the agency scales

If this sounds like a role where you could genuinely make a difference and you enjoy bringing order, clarity and confidence to creative environments, we’d love to hear from you.

Please email [email protected] with the subject line: Global Operations Lead Application – YOUR NAME

Flagship Client Accounts | Brand, Packaging, Innovation & Activation

Sydney | 12-month contract with view to extend | Hybrid

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Account Director (or AD ready to step up) to lead a matured, high-profile agency account, with a global beverage conglomerate. This is a rare opportunity to step into a role with momentum, trust, and the backing to drive ambitious creative and commercial outcomes. The role is a 12-month contract with the opportunity to extend for the right person.

You’ll be serving up bold, strategically sharp work across brand, packaging, innovation, and activation collaborating with a talented team in an agency that values creative excellence and commercial results in equal measure.

This is a role for a senior specialist who understands the nuances of the food and beverage world, with experience in beverage or adjacent categories, and has the strategic and creative acumen to lead with confidence and clarity.

This is a global search for top-tier talent. Candidates from the UK and USA are encouraged to apply, especially those who like the sound of a new role, a new city and a new perspective, where they can combine career growth with a Sydney lifestyle.

Why Co-Partnership?

We’re a brand and packaging agency that specialize in beverage and food. This focus allows us to go deeper, think sharper, and deliver standout work that drives commercial and creative impact. You’ll get to work with clients, categories and challenges that are both creatively and commercially dynamic.

• Shape brands that define categories
  You’ll partner with some of the world’s biggest and most innovative beverage and food clients, creating work that connects with culture, cuts through in category and drives commercial results.
• Work at scale, without losing craft
  You’ll be part of projects that go global and have strong strategic rigor, while still allowing for creative craft at every step, from brand identity through to packaging and activation.
• Grow with us globally
  With our London studio opening, we’re entering an exciting phase of international growth. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across geographies, travel for key projects, or even take your career abroad.
• Join a culture that rewards initiative
  Co-Partnership is a fast-paced environment where self-starters thrive. We value independence, collaboration, and a shared ambition to do great work, and we empower our team to take ownership and make things happen.
• Lead with your strengths
  We’re a Gallup Strengths-based agency, which means we invest in understanding what you’re great at, and help you do more of it. Our leadership style is grounded in partnership and collaboration.
• Do work that fits life (not the other way around)
  We work hard, but we also like to finish on time. We believe full, healthy lives outside of work fuel high performance inside it, and we support that with communication, flexibility and trust.
• Culture that celebrates the wins
  Whether it's surf lessons, team lunches, or annual holidays to mark our biggest years, we make time to connect and celebrate what we’ve built. You’ll be part of a team that genuinely enjoys what they do, and who they do it with.

Why this role?

This is a rare opportunity to lead both mature and new, high-value client relationships, and influence the future of a globally recognised beverage businesses.

• Lead trusted global client relationships
  Inherit already established accounts and relationships, where you will continue the momentum of our strong global partnerships, with the expectation and opportunity to grow them creatively and strategically.
• End-to-end ownership
  You’ll lead and own your account, and manage projects (in partnership) across strategy, creative and delivery, balancing the big picture with the detail. While there is support from the client service, studio and operations teams, this is a hands-on role for someone who’s comfortable stretching across all levels of responsibility.
• Access to senior leadership
  You will be working directly with the agency founders and director, gaining exposure, mentorship, and business insight not always available in larger agency structures.
• Make meaningful work
  From brand and packaging through to innovation and activation, you’ll be central to projects that make an impact on shelf, in culture, and in business, and maybe even win some awards along the way.

What you’ll do

• Nurture and grow both mature and new client relationships
• Lead standout brand, packaging, innovation and activation projects from brief to delivery
• Contribute to innovation and activation initiatives with strategic input
• Manage and report on financial targets
• Balance big-picture thinking with detail-oriented project management
• Identify and lead new opportunities within the account
• Partner closely with creatives, strategists, and agency leaders

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in brand and packaging (this is essential)
• Experience in beverage or adjacent FMCG categories
• A confident, senior-level communicator and relationship builder
• A strategic thinker who’s just as comfortable rolling up their sleeves
• Experience working with large corporate clients (1mil+ revenue) and navigating complex projects
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced, creative environment and takes ownership of their work

If you’re commercially savvy, creatively curious, and ready to lead, this could be your next big move. If so, we’d love to hear from you. Please email [email protected] with the subject ‘Senior Account Director Application – YOUR NAME’.

Flagship Client Account | Brand, Packaging, Innovation & Activation

Sydney | Full-time | Hybrid

We’re looking for an experienced Account Director (or SAM ready to step up) to lead a matured, high-profile agency account, with a global beverage conglomerate. This is a rare opportunity to step into a role with momentum, trust, and the backing to drive ambitious creative and commercial outcomes.

You’ll be serving up bold, strategically sharp work across brand, packaging, innovation, and activation collaborating with a talented team in an agency that values creative excellence and commercial results in equal measure.

This is a role for a senior specialist who understands the nuances of the food and beverage world, ideally with experience in beverage or adjacent categories, and has the strategic and creative acumen to lead with confidence and clarity.

Why Co-Partnership?

We’re a brand and packaging agency that specialize in beverage and food. This focus allows us to go deeper, think sharper, and deliver standout work that drives commercial and creative impact. You’ll get to work with clients, categories and challenges that are both creatively and commercially dynamic.

• Shape brands that define categories
  You’ll partner with some of the world’s biggest and most innovative beverage and food clients, creating work that connects with culture, cuts through in category and drives commercial results.
• Work at scale, without losing craft
  You’ll be part of projects that go global and have strong strategic rigor, while still allowing for creative craft at every step, from brand identity through to packaging and activation.
• Grow with us globally
  With our London studio opening, we’re entering an exciting phase of international growth. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across geographies, travel for key projects, or even take your career abroad.
• Join a culture that rewards initiative
  Co-Partnership is a fast-paced environment where self-starters thrive. We value independence, collaboration, and a shared ambition to do great work, and we empower our team to take ownership and make things happen.
• Lead with your strengths
  We’re a Gallup Strengths-based agency, which means we invest in understanding what you’re great at, and help you do more of it. Our leadership style is grounded in partnership and collaboration.
• Do work that fits life (not the other way around)
  We work hard, but we also like to finish on time. We believe full, healthy lives outside of work fuel high performance inside it, and we support that with communication, flexibility and trust.
• Culture that celebrates the wins
  Whether it's surf lessons, team lunches, or annual holidays to mark our biggest years, we make time to connect and celebrate what we’ve built. You’ll be part of a team that genuinely enjoys what they do, and who they do it with.

Why this role?

This is a rare opportunity to lead a mature, high-value client relationship, and influence the future of a globally recognised beverage business.

• Lead a mature, trusted client relationship
  This isn’t a cold start, it’s a partnership built over years, with the opportunity to grow it creatively and strategically.
• End-to-end ownership
  You’ll lead and own your account, and manage projects (in partnership) across strategy, creative and delivery, balancing the big picture with the detail. While there is support from the client service, studio and operations teams, this is a hands-on role for someone who’s comfortable stretching across all levels of responsibility.
• Access to senior leadership
  You will be working directly with the agency founders and director, gaining exposure, mentorship, and business insight not always available in larger agency structures.
• Make meaningful work
  From brand and packaging through to innovation and activation, you’ll be central to projects that make an impact on shelf, in culture, and in business, and maybe even win some awards along the way.

What you’ll do

• Nurture and grow a flagship global client relationship
• Lead standout brand, packaging, innovation and activation projects from brief to delivery
• Contribute to innovation and activation initiatives with strategic input
• Balance big-picture thinking with detail-oriented project management
• Identify and lead new opportunities within the account
• Partner closely with creatives, strategists, and agency leaders

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in brand and packaging (this is essential)
• Experience in beverage or adjacent FMCG categories
• A confident, senior-level communicator and relationship builder
• A strategic thinker who’s just as comfortable rolling up their sleeves
• Experience working with large corporate clients (1mil+ revenue) and navigating complex projects
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced, creative environment and takes ownership of their work

If you’re commercially savvy, creatively curious, and ready to lead, this could be your next big move. If so, we’d love to hear from you. Please email [email protected] with the subject ‘Account Director Application – YOUR NAME’.