Multidisciplinary Designer - Packaging & Brand Design

About the role

Industrial Color is seeking a Multidisciplinary Designer to support a leading prestige beauty client. This role is ideal for a designer who thrives at the intersection of packaging innovation, brand storytelling, and consumer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the concept, sketching, and development of primary packaging and component forms from scratch, including bottles, tubes, jars, pumps, caps, closures, compacts, applicators, and custom engineered forms
• Create and refine 3D CAD models in Rhino, translating sketches and concepts into manufacturable product forms
• Develop high-quality KeyShot renderings for internal reviews, presentations, and concept validation
• Explore materials, finishes, coatings, textures, and decoration techniques with a strong understanding of manufacturing constraints
• Partner closely with Packaging Engineering, Product Development, and external vendors to ensure feasibility, tooling readiness, and production execution
• Review prototypes, evaluate ergonomics and consumer usability, and iterate designs through multiple development stages through final production
• Design across packaging graphics, print, retail, digital, social, and brand communication systems
• Translate product benefits and innovation into clear, elevated, consumer-friendly design systems
• Ensure consistency across all consumer touchpoints while continuously elevating the brand aesthetic
• Work closely with Marketing, Product Development, Creative, Packaging Engineering, and global vendor partners
• Present design concepts, mood boards, 3D explorations, and strategic rationale with clarity and confidence
• Contribute to a highly collaborative, detail-driven, and innovation-focused creative environment
• Balance creative ambition with production realities, cost considerations, and launch timelines

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in beauty, skincare, personal care, wellness, or consumer packaged goods design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating primary packaging, structural packaging, and component design from concept through production
• Proven experience designing physical packaging systems and components, not solely graphic or surface-level packaging design
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, Rhino 3D, and KeyShot
• Strong understanding of injection molding, materials, manufacturing processes, and decoration techniques
• Experience developing 3D packaging concepts, CAD models, renderings, and production-ready files
• Ability to move fluidly between structural design, component engineering, packaging graphics, and brand systems
• Strong eye for proportion, tactility, materiality, and real-world consumer interaction
• Deep understanding of how packaging design influences perception of efficacy, quality, and trust in beauty products
• Experience working in fast-paced, high-volume product development environments