Senior Graphic Designer

Job Description

Job Description

Milani Cosmetics is built on a simple belief: beauty should feel exceptional, every day. For more than 20 years, that principle has guided the brand's mission to raise the standard of mass beauty. Working with trusted suppliers in Italy, South Korea, the US and beyond, Milani creates formulas with premium ingredients, rich pigments and meticulous detail; products designed to exceed expectations.

Today, Milani has built a cult following as the #7 U.S. mass color cosmetics brand, the third fastest- growing brand and the only independent brand in the top 10. Milani is known for its best-selling Baked Blush, crafted through a unique baking process on Italian terracotta tiles, along with Make it Last Setting Spray Original, the #1 ranked mass setting spray. The brand’s products feature premium skin-loving ingredients and technologies such as guava fruit extract, blue algae, chamomile, glycerin and niacinamide, and all products are proudly cruelty-free. For Milani, what’s inside matters, which is why every product is made with ingredients worthy of the consumers who wear them.

What's Inside is Everything!

Summary

Milani Cosmetics is seeking a  Senior Graphic Designer to shape key brand expression across retail, packaging, and the broader physical consumer experience. This role is ideal for a conceptual, systems-minded designer who can translate creative and art direction into distinctive design, develop compelling merchandising and packaging concepts, and build thoughtful frameworks that create consistency across retailers, formats, categories, and environments.

You are comfortable developing key visuals and defining how they flex across in-store environments, product launches, retailers, and channels. You bring strong visual judgment, systems thinking, and hands-on production knowledge, with the ability to protect creative intent from initial concept through final execution.

Reporting to the Art Director and partnering closely with the Executive Creative Director, you will translate brand and campaign strategy into compelling visual ideas with a clear point of view across typography, imagery, color, composition, hierarchy, and product storytelling. You will also provide clear creative guidance and quality control to production designers and external partners across Marketing, Visual Merchandising, and print production.

Responsibilities

Key Art, Brand & Systems

·         Partner with Art Director to develop and extend campaign key art and launch concepts across retail applications

·         Help define Milani’s evolving brand identity and translate it into a recognizable physical brand experience

·         Build scalable design systems across retailers, fixture sizes, categories, launches, and evergreen programs

·         Establish cohesive frameworks for typography, imagery, color, hierarchy, product communication, and retailer adaptations while maintaining an editorial visual approach

·         Help develop and evolve visual merchandising guidelines, templates, and standards that improve consistency and efficiency

Visual Merchandising & Retail Design

·         Develop elevated visual merchandising concepts and systems across fixtures, displays, launches, signage, product navigation, and promotional environments

·         Translate brand and campaign strategy into compelling physical retail experiences that strengthen storytelling, hierarchy, navigation, and shopability

·         Adapt creative intelligently across retailer-specific formats and constraints while maintaining brand consistency

·         Lead retail programs from concept and visualization through final production

·         Create polished retail mockups and presentations that clearly communicate creative intent

Brand Systems & Production Design Leadership

·         Own work from concept through production, balancing creative ambition with retail, print, and fabrication requirements

·         Prepare accurate production-ready files, including dielines, mechanicals, dimensions, imagery, color specifications, and final artwork

·         Brief, direct, and partner with production designers on rollout work, providing clear design guidance, templates, examples, feedback, and final approvals.

·         Review proofs, prototypes, and production outputs to ensure creative intent and quality are maintained

·         Contribute to broader physical brand initiatives—including packaging systems and print collateral—as needed

Collaboration & Ownership

·         Partner cross-functionally across Creative, Marketing, Visual Merchandising, and Production

·         Clearly present and articulate design thinking and creative decisions

·         Manage multiple complex projects and shifting priorities without compromising quality

·         Maintain organized workflows, project files, timelines, and approvals using Monday.com and related tools

Requirements

·         6+ years of relevant design experience with demonstrated senior-level ownership across visual merchandising, retail, environmental, experiential, or integrated brand programs

·         Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign

·         Exceptional portfolio demonstrating sophisticated visual merchandising, retail design, and campaign/key artwork

·         Demonstrated ability to create scalable visual systems, not simply individual executions

·         Exceptional visual judgment across typography, composition, color, photography, hierarchy, and product storytelling

·         Strong conceptual thinking with the ability to develop ideas and execute established creative direction

·         Deep knowledge of retail and print production, including fixtures, displays, dielines, materials, fabrication, and mechanicals

·         Understanding of shopper behavior and how design influences navigation, storytelling, and shopability

·         Ability to move fluidly from concept and design systems through adaptation and final production 

·         Highly detail-oriented with strong organization, communication, and production accuracy

·         Beauty, fashion, luxury, lifestyle, entertainment, retail, or culturally relevant consumer brand experience preferred

  Additional Strengths

·         Retail fixture, print, and fabrication vendor experience

·         Development of visual merchandising or retail brand guidelines

·         Packaging graphics and packaging systems

·         3D visualization, rendering, or environmental design tools

What Success Looks Like

You will help Milani:

·         Elevate the creative standard of our retail presence

·         Successfully bring our evolving brand identity into physical environments

·         Strengthen the connection between campaign key art and the shopper experience

·         Establish scalable visual merchandising systems across retailers and formats

·         Improve retail consistency, storytelling, navigation, and shopability

Portfolio

We would like to see sophisticated visual merchandising and retail design, campaign/key art development or extension, scalable design systems, strong typography and product storytelling, and evidence of concept-to-production ownership.

Beauty experience is valuable, but exceptional retail design thinking and taste are more important than category experience.

Please include a URL to a strong portfolio showcasing relevant work.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k w/ Company Match)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Vacation Time Policy
• Family Leave
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Work Environment / Hybrid (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday required on site in Milani’s Culver City Office)
• Dog-Friendly HQ

Compensation:

The base salary range represents the low and high end of Milani’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on factors including, but not limited to location, education, skills, and experience. The base salary range for this role is $85,000.00 to $100,000.00.

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability