Sr Print and Packaging Designer

Our client, a growing consumer beauty and personal care brand, is seeking a highly creative and systems-minded Senior Graphic Designer to shape brand expression across retail, packaging, visual merchandising, and physical consumer experiences. This role is ideal for a designer who combines strong conceptual thinking with hands-on production expertise and can bring compelling creative ideas from early concept through final execution.

Responsibilities

• Brand Design & Visual Systems
  • Develop and extend campaign key art and product-launch concepts across retail and brand applications.
  • Create scalable design systems that work across retailers, fixture formats, product categories, launches, and evergreen programs.
  • Establish clear visual frameworks for typography, imagery, color, hierarchy, product communication, and retailer-specific adaptations.
  • Help evolve visual merchandising guidelines, templates, and standards that improve consistency and execution efficiency.
  • Translate creative direction into polished, cohesive visual experiences that maintain a strong editorial point of view.
• Retail & Visual Merchandising Design
  • Develop visual merchandising concepts for fixtures, displays, signage, product navigation, launches, and promotional environments.
  • Turn brand and campaign strategy into engaging in-store experiences that strengthen storytelling, shopability, and customer navigation.
  • Adapt creative across retailer-specific formats and constraints while preserving brand consistency.
  • Lead retail design programs from concept development and visualization through final production.
  • Create high-quality mockups, presentations, and visualizations that communicate creative intent clearly.
• Production & Design Leadership
  • Own projects from concept through production while balancing creative ambition with print, fabrication, and retail requirements.
  • Prepare accurate production-ready files, including dielines, mechanicals, dimensions, imagery, color specifications, and final artwork.
  • Provide clear direction, templates, feedback, and quality control for production designers and external partners.
  • Review proofs, prototypes, and production outputs to ensure design quality and creative intent are maintained.
  • Contribute to packaging, print collateral, and other physical brand initiatives as needed.
• Collaboration & Project Ownership
  • Partner cross-functionally with Creative, Marketing, Visual Merchandising, and Production teams.
  • Present design thinking and articulate creative decisions with clarity and confidence.
  • Manage multiple complex projects, timelines, approvals, and shifting priorities without compromising quality.
  • Maintain organized project files and workflows using project-management and collaboration tools.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant design experience with senior-level ownership across visual merchandising, retail, environmental, experiential, or integrated brand programs.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating sophisticated retail design, visual merchandising, campaign development, and key art.
• Demonstrated ability to create scalable design systems—not solely individual creative executions.
• Exceptional visual judgment across typography, composition, color, photography, hierarchy, and product storytelling.
• Strong conceptual skills and the ability to develop original ideas while effectively executing 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 purchase consideration.
• Highly detail-oriented with strong communication, organization, and production-accuracy skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in beauty, fashion, luxury, lifestyle, entertainment, retail, or other culturally relevant consumer brands.
• Experience working with retail fixture, print, and fabrication vendors.
• Background developing visual merchandising or retail brand guidelines.
• Experience with packaging graphics and packaging systems.
• Familiarity with 3D visualization, rendering, or environmental design tools.

What Success Looks Like

• Elevating the creative standard and consistency of the brand’s retail presence.
• Creating scalable visual merchandising systems across retailer formats and product categories.
• Strengthening the connection between campaign creative and the in-store shopper experience.
• Improving retail storytelling, navigation, product communication, and shopability.
• Delivering high-quality work that protects creative intent from concept through production.

Portfolio Requirement

Please include a URL to a portfolio showcasing relevant work in retail design, visual merchandising, campaign or key art development, scalable design systems, typography, product storytelling, and concept-to-production execution.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Life insurance, voluntary coverage, and AD&D insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Generous paid time off and family leave
• Hybrid work environment

Pay

Base Salary Range: $85,000–$100,000 annually. Compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, skills, education, and location.

Employment Type: Full-Time Hybrid on Site in Culver City.