Packaging Design Production Artist (Hybrid Role - New York)

About the Role

OLAPLEX is seeking a meticulous and tech-savvy Packaging Design Production Artist to join our Creative team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between creative design concepts and manufacturing reality. You will turn approved design concepts into flawless, technically precise, print-ready packaging files for all primary and secondary components. Reporting to a Creative Packaging Designer, you bring an absolute obsession with technical details (dielines, typography, and print specs) and a deep appreciation for the aesthetics of prestige beauty.

Responsibilities

• Technical Pre-Press & Production:
  • Build and finalize precise, print-ready mechanical files for primary components (bottles, tubes) and secondary packaging (boxes, cartons)
  • Review, apply, and adapt structural dielines, ensuring exact placement of all graphic elements, bleeds, and safe zones
  • Adapt existing core brand designs across complex regional packaging sizes, translations, and global SKU variants
  • Maintain extreme typographic consistency, managing text wraps, kerning, ingredient list formatting, and legal requirements flawlessly
• Quality Assurance & Vendor Liaison:
  • Guarantee that all files released to factories contain correct spot colors, varnish layers, font outlines, and high-resolution imagery
  • Coordinate with overseas and domestic printers and packaging engineers to resolve technical file issues and review proofs
  • Maintain consistent brand color standards across varied packaging substrates and print processes (e.g., offset, flexography)
• Asset Management & Workflow:
  • Maintain highly organized project directories, standardized file-naming structures, and master digital asset libraries
  • Assemble functional physical mockups and digital renderings for leadership evaluation and stakeholder presentation
  • Manage production tasks for multiple concurrent product launches, ensuring strict adherence to global manufacturing deadlines

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Print Production, or equivalent technical design experience
• 5+ years of dedicated production art experience, ideally within the beauty, cosmetics, or premium consumer packaged goods (CPG) spaces and with agency experience
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, with expert-level proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Deep understanding of printing processes, specialty finishes (hot stamping, embossing), ink limitations, and substrate textures
• Exceptional proofreading skills and an eagle-eye focus on picking up minor alignment, copy, or structural discrepancies

Pay

The annual base pay for this position is $85,000 - $95,000 with eligibility for an annual bonus. The actual base pay will vary based on factors such as qualifications, years of relevant experience, skill level, functional expertise, certificates or other professional licenses held, and geographic location.

Benefits

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and flexible work schedules
• Wellness: Company Contribution to Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance for Employees and their Families, Company Paid Employee Life Insurance, Optional additional Life Insurance, and Short and Long-Term Disability Coverage Options
• Parental Leave: Up to 18 weeks for birthing-parents and up to 10 weeks for non-birthing new parents
• Financial Well-being: Roth and 401k plans: 100% match up to the first 4% and is immediately vested
• Professional Development: Reimbursement Program for career development
• Products: Twenty (20) free products per year, plus a friends and family discount