Sr. Packaging Designer (New York)

Responsibilities:

• Interpret creative briefs to design strategic packaging concepts that translate brand positioning, consumer insights, and market opportunities into innovative and on-trend design solutions that align with our brand’s identity and target audience.

• Strong knowledge of beauty trends to create thumb-stopping designs for packaging, PR kits, merch, and/or collaborations.

• Execute approved designs with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring the final design meets production standards and specifications.

• Create designs that take into account sustainability targets such as material reduction and use of post-consumer recycled resin.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Marketing, Brand Marketing, New Product Development, Sales, and Operations.

• Present design rationale effectively to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Stay up to date on emerging design trends, techniques and technologies within the beauty industry.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks and meet tight deadlines while maintaining a high level of quality.

• Foster effective communication channels with internal teams and external vendors as necessary to ensure seamless execution of packaging projects.

• Maintain organized files, documentation and archives of design files for easy retrieval and future reference.

• Oversee day-to-day process of packaging design and sampling, and liase with Development team and China NPD team daily to follow up on sample development.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, Packaging Design, Visual Communications, or a related field.

• 5+ years experience as a packaging designer in a high volume, deadline-driven environment in beauty or a related industry, with a strong portfolio.

• Knowledge of packaging decoration techniques across both primary and secondary packaging.

• Strong and refined typography skills.

• Excellent eye for color.

• Proficient in industry-standard design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), as well as AI rendering tools.

• Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills; deadline driven.

• Comfortable working in a collaborative manner and a highly creative out-of-the-box thinker.

• Ability to anticipate workload and proactively communicate to managers.

• Current on fashion, beauty, design and digital trends.

• Ability to be physically in office a minimum of 3-days per week.

• Experience with 3D rendering tools a plus.

• Experience in art direction for beauty a plus.

• Strong knowledge of sustainability best practices a plus