Senior Packaging Designer | Beauty Innovation

CoCreativ•Los Angeles, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Design the next generation of beauty packaging for one of the world's leading prestige beauty brands. We're looking for a Senior Packaging Designer with significant experience in beauty packaging to help create innovative products from concept through production. This is a highly collaborative role for a designer who understands that exceptional beauty packaging combines industrial design, structural innovation, engineering, manufacturing, and brand storytelling. You'll lead the development of primary packaging and custom components, creating bottles, tubes, jars, pumps, caps, closures, compacts, applicators, and other innovative packaging solutions that are both visually compelling and technically sound. Working closely with Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Marketing, Creative, and global manufacturing partners, you'll transform consumer insights into products that deliver outstanding consumer experiences. This is a hands-on role that extends beyond concept development. You'll be responsible for ensuring your designs are successfully translated into production by reviewing technical drawings, validating alignment with the approved design direction, preparing Pantone color standards and benchmarks, setting up and annotating artwork files, coordinating artwork delivery, supporting prepress, and participating in press checks through final production. Beyond structural packaging, you'll contribute to packaging graphics and support product launches with digital and e-commerce creative, ensuring a seamless consumer experience across retail, online, and social channels. If you're passionate about creating innovative beauty packaging and enjoy balancing creativity with technical execution, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

Significant experience in beauty packaging
Understand that exceptional beauty packaging combines industrial design, structural innovation, engineering, manufacturing, and brand storytelling
Lead the development of primary packaging and custom components
Create bottles, tubes, jars, pumps, caps, closures, compacts, applicators, and other innovative packaging solutions
Visually compelling and technically sound designs
Transform consumer insights into products that deliver outstanding consumer experiences
Hands-on role that extends beyond concept development
Review technical drawings
Validate alignment with the approved design direction
Prepare Pantone color standards and benchmarks
Set up and annotate artwork files
Coordinate artwork delivery
Support prepress
Participate in press checks through final production
Contribute to packaging graphics
Support product launches with digital and e-commerce creative
Ensure a seamless consumer experience across retail, online, and social channels
Passionate about creating innovative beauty packaging
Enjoy balancing creativity with technical execution
Create and refine 3D CAD models using Rhino
Develop high-quality KeyShot renderings
Explore innovative materials, finishes, coatings, textures, decoration techniques, and manufacturing processes
Review prototypes
Evaluate consumer usability
Refine designs through multiple development stages
Stay current on beauty trends, packaging innovation, sustainability, and emerging manufacturing technologies
Review technical drawings and engineering documentation
Follow up with Product Development, Packaging Engineering, and vendors
Prepare and manage Pantone color standards, color callouts, and benchmark references
Set up, organize, and annotate artwork files with detailed production specifications, finishes, decoration techniques, and manufacturing requirements
Prepare and deliver production-ready artwork files to vendors and manufacturing partners
Review proofs and prepress files
Participate in press checks and color approvals
Collaborate closely with Packaging Engineering, Product Development, manufacturers, and suppliers
Design packaging graphics that clearly communicate product benefits while reinforcing the overall brand identity
Develop cohesive visual systems across packaging, retail, and marketing collateral
Create original design solutions rooted in consumer insight and brand strategy
Ensure consistency across all physical consumer touchpoints
Support product launches by creating digital and e-commerce assets
Collaborate with Marketing and Creative teams
Maintain visual consistency across physical packaging and digital consumer experiences
Partner with Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Marketing, Creative, Merchandising, and global manufacturing partners
Present concepts, prototypes, renderings, mood boards, and design rationale with confidence and clarity
Balance creativity with technical requirements, manufacturing constraints, timelines, and budgets
Foster a collaborative, detail-oriented, and innovation-driven creative environment

Responsibilities

Lead the concept, sketching, and development of primary packaging and structural components from concept through production.
Design bottles, tubes, jars, pumps, caps, closures, compacts, applicators, and custom packaging systems that balance aesthetics, functionality, ergonomics, and manufacturability.
Create and refine 3D CAD models using Rhino to translate concepts into production-ready designs.
Develop high-quality KeyShot renderings for presentations, concept reviews, and executive approvals.
Explore innovative materials, finishes, coatings, textures, decoration techniques, and manufacturing processes.
Review prototypes, evaluate consumer usability, and refine designs through multiple development stages before final production.
Stay current on beauty trends, packaging innovation, sustainability, and emerging manufacturing technologies.
Review technical drawings and engineering documentation to ensure they align with the approved design direction.
Follow up with Product Development, Packaging Engineering, and vendors throughout development to maintain design integrity.
Prepare and manage Pantone color standards, color callouts, and benchmark references.
Set up, organize, and annotate artwork files with detailed production specifications, finishes, decoration techniques, and manufacturing requirements.
Prepare and deliver production-ready artwork files to vendors and manufacturing partners.
Review proofs and prepress files to ensure artwork accuracy, print quality, and color consistency.
Participate in press checks and color approvals to ensure final production meets design expectations.
Collaborate closely with Packaging Engineering, Product Development, manufacturers, and suppliers to resolve technical, artwork, and production challenges through commercialization.
Design packaging graphics that clearly communicate product benefits while reinforcing the overall brand identity.
Develop cohesive visual systems across packaging, retail, and marketing collateral.
Create original design solutions rooted in consumer insight and brand strategy.
Ensure consistency across all physical consumer touchpoints.
Support product launches by creating digital and e-commerce assets, including Product Detail Pages (PDPs), retail.com imagery, promotional graphics, launch assets, and digital marketing materials.
Collaborate with Marketing and Creative teams to ensure product storytelling translates seamlessly across retail, digital, and social channels.
Maintain visual consistency across physical packaging and digital consumer experiences.
Partner with Product Development, Packaging Engineering, Marketing, Creative, Merchandising, and global manufacturing partners throughout the product lifecycle.
Present concepts, prototypes, renderings, mood boards, and design rationale with confidence and clarity.
Balance creativity with technical requirements, manufacturing constraints, timelines, and budgets.
Foster a collaborative, detail-oriented, and innovation-driven creative environment.