Required Skills & Experience
- 3–5+ years of professional experience in graphic design, packaging design, production design, creative production, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
- Experience creating packaging or graphic artwork and preparing print-ready files.
- Strong understanding of design principles, typography, layout, composition, and visual hierarchy.
- Strong organizational, file management, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and changing priorities with accuracy and follow-through.
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage assigned creative, packaging, or production projects.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, project requirements, deadlines, reviews, and approvals.
- Ability to independently identify routine issues, determine appropriate next steps, and drive work through. completion.
- Proactive, self-directed approach with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to ask questions, seek clarification, learn established processes, and take ownership of projects with limited day-to-day direction.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience with consumer product packaging, CPG, retail, e-commerce, beauty, food, dietary supplements, or related industries.
- Experience creating physical product mockups, packaging samples, and print production artwork.
- Experience with digital asset management and project management platforms such as Wrike, Asana, Monday.com, or Trello.
- Experience with Figma and cross-functional artwork coordination.
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Fine Arts, or a related field.
- Experience serving as a project lead, production lead, packaging lead, or similar role with responsibility for coordinating creative or packaging workflows.
Job Description
As the Packaging Lead, you will own the development, execution, organization, and maintenance of packaging and product artwork across our client's portfolio. Working closely with the Associate Packaging Director and cross-functional teams, you will lead assigned packaging design, artwork preparation, print projects, render requests, product mockups, physical samples, and digital asset management workflows.
This role will serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for assigned packaging artwork, files, mockups, samples, and related creative assets. You will help keep projects moving, maintain accurate and accessible packaging assets, coordinate cross-functional deliverables and timelines, identify potential issues and reduce day-to-day production and administrative workload for the Associate Packaging Director.
The Packaging Lead is expected to independently manage established workflows, proactively identify priorities, resolve routine issues, and take ownership of assigned projects and recurring responsibilities from initiation through completion.
The role requires strong Adobe Creative Cloud proficiency, exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational and communication skills, sound project management and problem-solving abilities, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.