Sr. Packaging Designer

Position Summary

The Senior Packaging Designer will play a pivotal role in creating disruptive and on-brand designs for beauty packaging, including merch and PR boxes. We are seeking a highly skilled and creative designer with a passion for beauty and the expertise to meet design direction within brand, manufacturing and cost constraints.

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 liaise 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.