Adaptive Designer (Packaging) – 12-Month Maternity Cover

Key Responsibilities

• Adaptive Packaging Design: Adapt global creative packaging assets, artwork, and brand elements across various formats, sizes, product variants, and languages while maintaining visual brand integrity.
• Onsite Client Engagement: Attend the client's Sydney studio weekly, participating in reviews, working sessions, and serving as a direct partner to key client stakeholders.
• Brand Governance & Accuracy: Ensure all designs and production-ready artwork strictly adhere to brand guidelines, market-specific standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Transcreation Team Leads, Project Managers, Technical Artists, and Retouchers to deliver high-quality work on tight deadlines.
• Project Execution: Simultaneously manage multiple project pipelines, balancing competing priorities without compromising quality or attention to detail.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience: 3–5+ years of proven experience in adaptive design, transcreation, artwork adaptation, or production design, with a focus on packaging and FMCG/consumer goods environments.
• Client-Facing Skills: Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills with confidence managing clients directly in an onsite environment.
• Technical Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (specifically Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign).
• Packaging Expertise: Strong understanding of packaging artwork execution, typography, prepress standards, layout adaptation, and brand governance.
• Location & Flexibility: Sydney-based and comfortable working in a hybrid arrangement (WFH + weekly onsite attendance at the Sydney client studio).

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience supporting global FMCG or beverage brands.
• Familiarity with APAC market localization, multi-language adaptations, and workflow platforms like Workfront.

Why Apply?

• Iconic Brand Portfolio: Work on high-visibility global campaigns and packaging designs for a world-renowned FMCG brand.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a dynamic, high-performing transcreation team focused on creative excellence.
• Hybrid Work Culture: Enjoy flexibility with a balance of working from home and collaborating face-to-face in the client studio.