PACKAGING DESIGNER - NYC - Direct Hire - $50-60k

Our client is in search of a Packaging Designer. This company is a large New York based private label and licensed apparel company creating colorful sleepwear, accessories, and hosiery.

Salary/Rate: $50-$60k

Position Overview:  We are currently seeking a talented Packaging Designer whose primary focus will be designing packaging for women’s sleepwear & hosiery for mass-market retailers such as Walmart, Kohl's, and Macy’s.

Responsibilities: 

• Packaging Designer conceptualizes and translates design trends into concepts 
• Manages the components of a seasonal collection
• Conceptualizes creative solutions to address product strategies with multiple design options within cost parameters
• Creates and executes final designs
• Packaging Designer partners with merchants and product development to ensure the integrity of the design is maintained during the product development process
• Creates design turn overs (DTO) and finalizes art work for hand-off to the production team
• Reviews re-touching and matches prints/vendor proofs
• Provides on-press supervision for major launch programs
• Participates in product development feasibility discussions
• Researches trends and patterns for upcoming seasons
• Packaging Designer identifies fashion trends and applies them for product / label design
• Performs talent management activities if leading a team, including building a high performing team
• Mentors and coaches internal design team
• Initiates and oversees the design board layouts and printouts
• Provides approved designs and design direction to specification / mechanical team for development of technical specifications
• Packaging Designer provides art direction to designers
• Collaborates with cross-functional partners
• Gains approval from the legal and regulatory team on designs
• Provide bulk and component color submissions / targets to product development and package engineering
• Packaging Designer problems solve obstacles or challenges to keep design work on track, including construction and cost engineering

Qualifications: 

• Superior organizational skills and excellent communication skills 
• Team-oriented individual 
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Highly detail oriented, meticulous, and creative
• Design with a focus on typography, placing print and pattern, and a great eye for detail and color sense
• Illustrator and Photoshop skills required 
• Product illustration skills needed 
• Photography and art direction skills needed 
• Review and approve color submission for bulk and components
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe products, and Mac computers
• Knowledge of CAD preferable

 Education Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Related Field

 Benefits: TBD