Packaging Designer (Contract) Jobs

About the Company

e.l.f. is for every eye, lip, and face, providing access to the best of beauty. From the beginning, our mission has been to deliver guilt-free play with major pay-off so everyone can own their beauty, without compromise. Always vegan and cruelty-free, because we believe kindness is chic (and we love being nice to your wallet), you can find e.l.f. products on www.elfcosmetics.com, at leading retailers such as Target, Walmart, and Ulta, and internationally.

e.l.f. was founded in 2004 as a digitally native mass cosmetics brand and became a publicly-traded company in 2016 (NYSE: ELF). The e.l.f. employee base mirrors the consumers we serve – over 70% female and nearly 40% diverse. e.l.f. is also a leader in board diversity, with greater than 50% of board seats being held by successful female business leaders. e.l.f. embraces a lean staffing model that enables everyone to work closely with colleagues at all levels of the business. This also makes e.l.f. an attractive environment for the kind of individual who wants to directly impact business results and develop a broad set of skills to learn and grow into additional parts of the business.

About the Job

As a Freelance Packaging Designer, you will be responsible for carrying out the execution of package designs to meet design direction within brand, manufacturing, and cost constraints. You will handle multiple projects across 1-2 brands with franchises, working under the Directors' supervision with others in the multi-disciplinary team to create, turn over and develop designs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive timely development of high-quality, innovative packages based on customer requirements, manufacturability, wall space, and marketing objectives.
• Oversee day-to-day management of package development and liaise with Design team and
• Create cross-functional internal partnerships in conjunction with innovation, design, marketing, NPD, and operational teams.
• Drive company-wide environmental initiatives through material reduction, use of post-consumer recycled resin, and other sustainability targets.
• Design on brand cost-efficient packaging while maintaining technical accuracy and design aesthetics across e.l.f. beauty brands
• China New Product Development team daily to follow up on sample development, modifications etc.
• Strong knowledge of beauty trends to create thumb-stopping designs for packaging, pr kits, social media, swag, and collaborations
• Maintain harmonized packaging design principles as laid out by the Harmony team.

SKILLS:

• Highly organized; Communicate information clearly and effectively with team members
• Ability to balance multiple projects at once
• Package development experience, preferably in prestige beauty
• Technical knowledge in beauty packaging is a plus
• Ability to think quickly and pivot with design objectives
• Ability to anticipate workload and communicate proactively to Project Manager
• Strong and refined typography skills
• Some knowledge of sustainability best practices
• Experience designing PR boxes and kits is a plus
• Ability to meet stringent deadlines, quickly managing changing priorities
• Color matching expertise

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years experience in a high volume, deadline-driven environment
• Fashion, CPG, and/or beauty industry experience a must
• Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills, deadline-driven.
• Adept at computer programs including Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
• Finger on the pulse on fashion, beauty, design and digital trends
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Comfortable working in a collaborative manner and a highly creative, out-of-the-box thinker

This job description is intended to describe the general nature, and level of work being performed in this position. It also reflects the general details considered necessary to describe the principle functions of the job identified, and shall not be considered, as detailed description of all the work required inherent in the job. It is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, and it is subject to changes and exceptions at supervisors' discretion.

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