Senior Packaging Designer

Twelve NYC•New York, NY

6d•$85 - $95

About The Position

As a Senior Packaging Designer, Influencer at Twelve, you’ll create innovative packaging collections for top global brands, overseeing projects from concept to completion. Responsibilities include developing dielines, managing timelines, mentoring junior designers, and ensuring brand consistency. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, typography, and print production is essential, along with the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. You’ll balance creative vision with technical expertise to deliver exceptional designs aligned with client needs and market trends.

Requirements

Beauty brand industry experience encouraged but not required
Influencer/PR unboxing experience encouraged but not required
Must take initiative and be highly communicative
Display high-level of accuracy and attention for details in artwork delivery
Ability to relentlessly collaborate and work independently on several different projects at once
Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud- InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator experience necessary
Must have experience working with creative design software to combine typography, graphics and other design elements
Proficient experience in illustrations, pattern-making and typography
Proficient experience in print-ready files, creating dielines, templates, tech packs, and post production.
Ability to comp and build structures and boxes to test execution
Flexibility in collaborating with multiple teams
Agility to work within other designers files cohesively with non destructive editing
Proficient understanding of the Pantone color system
Understanding of brand development + consistency with the capability of solving complex problems through effective design
Must have their pulse on the latest in art/design/packaging trends
Ability to execute design tasks quickly and efficiently
Ability to work after-hours and on different time zones when necessary

Nice To Haves

Beauty brand industry experience encouraged but not required
Influencer/PR unboxing experience encouraged but not required

Responsibilities

Work closely with the Creative and Development teams to create experiential packaging collections for a variety of brands, for true unboxing experiences
Execute technical art files for both product and packaging
Develop dielines and templates that are clean and production ready
Gain understanding of each client’s unique branding + guidelines to create a consistency throughout collections
Conceptualize designs with understanding of client’s tastes, needs, and market trends
Highly organized in maintaining files to increase job efficiency, inclusive of ensuring that all files + elements are easy to locate
Duties include managing program timelines, overseeing jr designers, photoshop renderings, file organization, production file setup, document creation, and file sharing
Oversee project from concept to completion - including delegation to other designers
Must be commercially and financially aware of the business, from creative time management of projects and product development
Execute ongoing internal marketing concepts, materials, and decks to be used for general marketing purposes. Including, but not limited to, twelveNYC branded materials and how to continue to tell our story in the US and beyond.
Exercise judgment and project management skills to balance priorities and communicate to teams to meet and exceed project deadlines by setting own internal deadlines based on feasibility, clients parameters, and overall team/program deadlines.

Benefits

Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life)
Mental Health Mondays: once a month our offices close globally (that's 12 additional days per year)
Generous Paid Time Off – Including your birthday, personal days, time-off around holidays.
Paid Parental Leave
Summer Fridays
Discretionary bonuses

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