Senior Packaging Designer | Beauty Innovation

About the Role

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

Primary Packaging & Structural Design

• 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.

Production Development & Artwork Execution

• 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.

Packaging Graphics & Brand Design

• 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.

Digital & Product Launch Support

• 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.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• 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.

Benefits

The anticipated salary range for this role is $105,000 - $120,000 annually. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience, and skills relative to the defined job requirements.

This is a hybrid role requiring flexibility to work in-office and remotely. Evening or weekend work may occasionally be required during major projects.

We offer a competitive benefits package including major medical, dental and vision insurance, FSA, HSA, and employee discounts.

Industrial Color is a division of CoCreativ, a family of integrated creative production companies. Industrial Color partners with top brands, agencies, and creative professionals providing a full range of essential production services. For over 30 years, we've led the industry through a culture of innovation, bringing state-of-the-art digital production and post-production solutions to our clients.

Our headquarters is based in Tribeca, NY, with offices in Los Angeles and studios in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Our clients include: L'Oreal, Publicis, Procter & Gamble, Tommy Hilfiger, Absolut Vodka, Nike, Estee Lauder, Amazon...