Sr. Packaging Designer

About the role

Creative Circle is seeking a Senior Packaging Graphic Designer to develop compelling, brand-right packaging graphics across a broad portfolio of consumer products, including toys, books, accessories, licensed products and other product categories.

This role focuses exclusively on visual and graphic packaging design, not structural packaging engineering, package construction or structural package design. It combines packaging graphic design, creative concepting and layout development. The schedule is 40 hours a week and the role could turn into a full-time role after 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Translate brand standards, product strategies, consumer insights, business objectives and current trends into creative consumer packaging solutions.
• Develop packaging graphics and layouts for consumer products from concept through production.

Requirements

• At least 6+ years of professional packaging graphic design experience for consumer products.
• Experience with toy packaging and children's books is preferred but not required.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with advanced knowledge of InDesign.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating packaging graphic design, concept development, brand application and finished production-ready work for retail packaging.
• Strong layout, sketching and design skills; a solid understanding of typography, composition and brand identity principles; and a passion for packaging graphic design.

Key facts

• The schedule is 40 hours a week.
• The role could turn into a full-time role after 6 months.
• At least 6+ years of professional packaging graphic design experience for consumer products is required.
• Toy packaging and children's books experience is preferred but not required.