Senior Graphic Designer

Milani Cosmetics•Culver City, CA

5d•$85,000 - $100,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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
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
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
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