Careers at Original Duckhead
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Original Duckhead is a London-born brand rethinking weatherwear.
Best known for our distinctive umbrellas, we are sold worldwide and are now expanding into a broader world of products designed for rain, sun and life outdoors.
We are building the next chapter of Original Duckhead with the same principles that got us here: strong product, distinctive creative, responsible materials and a point of view of our own.
We are looking for talented people who want to help shape what comes next.
Explore our current opportunities below.
Current vacancies
Finance Manager
Location: Clapham, London (office-based)
Hours: Full-time
Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on experience
Reports to: CEO
Start date: ASAP
Build the finance backbone of a growing global brand
Original Duckhead is a London-based umbrella brand selling across wholesale and D2C, with customers and partners across the UK, Europe, the US, and other international markets.
We are hiring a hands-on Finance Manager to bring order, clarity, and control to our finance function. This is not an oversight role. You will be in the detail, owning the day-to-day bookkeeping in-house, producing monthly management accounts, managing UK VAT, maintaining a rolling cash flow forecast, and improving the quality and usability of our reporting.
You will work closely with the CEO and external accountants, and you will play a key role in building financial discipline across the business.
Why this role matters
This role is critical to improving visibility, control, and reporting quality. The goal is a finance function that gives clear insight into cash, costs, margin, and performance across channels, markets, and major areas of spend.
What you’ll own
Bookkeeping and finance operations
- Own day-to-day bookkeeping in Xero
- Maintain accurate records across GBP, EUR, and USD accounts
- Reconcile bank accounts, payment platforms, and control accounts
- Post journals, accruals, prepayments, and month-end adjustments
- Own accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Own credit control and maintain visibility on aged debt
Management accounts and reporting
- Prepare monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
- Deliver variance analysis and clear commentary to the CEO
- Build meaningful cost centre reporting
- Improve visibility on channel performance, margin, and overheads
- Create reporting that highlights profitability drivers, including major projects and trade shows where relevant
Cash flow and financial control
- Maintain a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast
- Track key cash commitments and upcoming outflows
- Improve visibility on receivables, payables, VAT, payroll, and major costs
- Strengthen financial control and reporting discipline across the business
VAT and accountant coordination
- Own UK VAT returns and filings
- Prepare clean finance data for external accountants and advisors
- Coordinate with external accountants on EU VAT, US sales tax and year-end requirements where needed
- Maintain accurate multi-currency reporting and organised underlying data for compliance support
Systems and process improvement
- Improve the structure and cleanliness of Xero over time
- Help create consistent reporting across Xero, Cin7, Shopify, Stripe, Faire, and related systems
- Reduce manual errors and improve processes through simple, practical improvements
What we’re looking for
- Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent)
- Experience in a hands-on finance role in a retail, wholesale, consumer goods, or e-commerce business
- Experience working across multiple markets and currencies
- Strong bookkeeping and management accounts experience
- Strong understanding of accruals, prepayments, journals, reconciliations, and month-end close
- Experience owning UK VAT
- Experience working with external accountants and tax advisors
- Exposure to EU VAT and US sales tax or nexus coordination
- Strong attention to detail and strong organisational discipline
- Commercial understanding of costs, margin, and reporting
- Comfortable working in a small, ambitious business where ownership matters
What success looks like
Within the first few months:
- Bookkeeping is accurate and fully run in-house
- Monthly management accounts are clean and on time
- Reconciliations are up to date and reliable
- UK VAT is owned internally and filed correctly
- The 13-week cash flow forecast is live and maintained
- Cost centres are clear and useful
- The CEO has materially better visibility on cash, costs, and performance
- External accountants receive organised, reliable data
How to apply
Apply via LinkedIn Easy Apply or via our careers page. Please include:
- Your CV
- A short note explaining the type of business you have worked in
- Your experience with management accounts, bookkeeping, and VAT
- One example of messy finance data or reporting you cleaned up and made usable
Freelance Graphic Designer, Brand & Campaigns
Location: Remote, UK or Europe preferred. Occasional collaboration in our London studio
Hours: Approximately 1 day per week, with additional work around campaigns and launches
Contract: Freelance Rate: £40 to £50 per hour, depending on experience
Start date: As soon as possible
Help bring the next chapter of Original Duckhead to life
Original Duckhead is a London-based, B Corp-certified design brand, best known for our distinctive premium umbrellas.
We have recently evolved our brand identity and are looking for a talented freelance Graphic Designer to help us bring it to life consistently and creatively across campaigns, e-commerce, advertising and wider brand communications.
This is not a rebranding project and we are not looking for a Creative Director.
The foundations are already there. We are looking for a strong midweight designer who can take our brand identity, campaign photography and creative ideas and turn them into polished, distinctive commercial design.
Why this role matters
As Original Duckhead grows, we want the quality and consistency of our visual communications to grow with us.
Rather than design being handled across different members of the team, we want one talented designer who gets to know the brand deeply and helps us build a more recognisable and consistent visual world.
You will work closely with our internal team across campaigns, product launches and ongoing brand communications.
What you'll work on
- Campaign artwork and creative rollouts
- Turning campaign photography into finished advertising and brand creative
- Paid social and digital advertising assets
- Typography and graphic treatments for photography
- Website graphics, homepage creative and landing page assets
- Seasonal and product launch e-commerce creative
- Lookbooks and sales materials
- Email and newsletter design assets
- Social and digital content
- Retail, B2B and event collateral
- Occasional packaging and print projects
- Resizing and adapting creative across different formats
Simple motion or animation skills would be a bonus, but are not essential.
What we're looking for
You are a strong midweight graphic designer with an excellent eye for typography, composition, photography and brand.
You understand how to work within an established visual identity while still bringing creativity and new ideas to the work.
You are comfortable taking a campaign photograph and thinking about how it should become an advert, website treatment, email, lookbook page or piece of social content.
You enjoy creative thinking, but you are equally happy executing, adapting and delivering finished artwork.
Experience working with fashion, beauty, lifestyle, culture or design-led consumer brands would be particularly relevant.
Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills are important. Figma experience would also be valuable.
What success looks like
You help us create a more consistent and distinctive visual identity across every customer touchpoint.
Campaigns translate strongly across web, advertising, email and sales materials.
The team has a trusted designer who understands Original Duckhead and can take a brief from idea through to finished creative without excessive direction.
Most importantly, the work feels unmistakably Original Duckhead rather than templated or generic.
How to apply
Please send your portfolio, hourly rate and availability to careers@originalduckhead.com
We would particularly like to see three examples where you have taken an existing brand identity, campaign photography or creative concept and developed it into finished commercial design across different formats.
We are less interested in standalone logo or branding projects. We want to see how you bring a brand to life.
Freelance Senior Soft Goods Designer
Location: Remote, UK or Europe preferred. Occasional collaboration in London during key development stages.
Hours: Part-time, freelance
Contract: Project-based, with potential for an ongoing relationship
Rate: Competitive freelance rate, depending on experience and scope
Works closely with: Founder & CEO
Help us design what comes after the umbrella
Original Duckhead is a London-based, B Corp-certified design brand, best known for our distinctive premium umbrellas. We sell internationally across D2C and wholesale and are now entering an important next stage of product development.
Our ambition is to build a distinctive collection of products for changing weather, with umbrellas remaining at the heart of the brand.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Soft Goods Designer to work directly with our founder and help shape what that product world looks like.
This is not about taking generic products and applying an Original Duckhead print.
We want to develop products where the construction, materials, functionality and details are as considered as the visual design itself.
Why this role matters
Until now, much of our product development has grown from our expertise in umbrellas and close collaboration with our manufacturing partners.
As the brand expands into new categories, we want to build a much stronger product design capability.
We are looking for someone who can come into the process early, question assumptions, solve practical problems and help turn an opportunity or customer need into a product that feels unmistakably Original Duckhead.
Sometimes we will come to you with a product idea.
Sometimes we will come with a problem:
How should you carry a wet umbrella?
How can we make travelling in unpredictable weather easier?
What should a beautifully designed outdoor product do differently?
We want someone who enjoys answering those questions through design.
What you'll work on
Potential projects could span:
- Bags and carry systems
- Waterproof and water-resistant accessories
- Travel organisation
- Pouches and protective products
- Outdoor and picnic products
- Technical textile accessories
- New product concepts built around changing weather
The exact roadmap will evolve. Part of the value of this role is helping us determine what the right products should be.
What you'll do
- Work directly with the founder on early-stage product concepts
- Translate ideas and user problems into considered product solutions
- Develop construction, functionality and product detailing
- Recommend fabrics, materials, trims and hardware
- Create technical drawings and production-ready tech packs
- Review samples and prototypes
- Refine designs through multiple development rounds
- Advise on durability, usability and technical performance
- Provide technical design input to manufacturers during development
- Help establish a coherent product design language across future Original Duckhead products
What we're looking for
You will have substantial professional experience designing soft goods and technical sewn products.
Relevant experience might include:
- Bags and carry systems
- Travel accessories
- Outdoor products
- Technical textile products
- Performance or waterproof materials
- Sewn product construction
You understand how products are actually constructed and manufactured, not simply how they should look.
You care about how something folds, fastens, packs, carries, stores and feels in someone's hands.
You can balance originality with commercial reality and manufacturability.
Most importantly, you are comfortable challenging a brief when you see a better solution. We want a design partner who thinks with us, not simply someone who executes instructions.
Experience designing umbrellas is not required.
The opportunity
This is initially a freelance, project-based role, but we are looking for someone with the potential to become a long-term product design partner to Original Duckhead.
You would be joining at an unusually exciting point: early enough to influence not just individual products, but the design language and product philosophy that will shape the next chapter of the brand.
How to apply
Please send your portfolio to careers@originalduckhead.com, highlighting two or three products most relevant to this role.
For each, we'd love a very short explanation of your role in the project.
We are particularly interested in seeing products where construction, materials, functionality or technical problem-solving played an important role in the final design.
Working at Original Duckhead
We are independent, ambitious and hands-on.
People here are trusted to own their area, make good decisions and bring ideas to the table. We value high standards, commercial thinking, curiosity and attention to detail.
There is a lot still to build.
About Original Duckhead
Design-first. Always.
Original Duckhead started with a simple belief: the everyday umbrella could be better.
Better considered. Better made. More distinctive. Something you would choose to carry rather than simply tolerate when it rains.
That idea has grown into a brand sold around the world, known for colour, originality and products that combine form with function.
Now we are taking that thinking beyond the umbrella and into weatherwear, creating products for changing conditions without compromising on style, practicality or longevity.
We are a certified B Corp. Responsible materials, thoughtful manufacturing and products made to last are part of how we operate, not a marketing exercise.
ODH Limited is an equal-opportunity employer. Simply send us your CV to careers@originalduckhead.com.
