Packaging Designer (Pooling)

About the Role:

We are looking for an independent Packaging & Graphic Designer to own end-to-end design execution. You will manage projects from initial brief to final production-ready delivery while working closely with Brand Marketing and Product Development.

What You'll Do:

Packaging & Print Design

• Execute packaging & print designs from brief to production-ready artwork, including mood boards, layout iterations, and final files.
• Deliver technically accurate artwork — correct dielines, color profiles (CMYK/Pantone), bleeds, safe zones, print-appropriate resolutions, and finishes.
• Maintain and evolve brand-aligned packaging systems across multiple SKUs and franchises within each brand.
• Support new product launches and product variations by exploring new packaging concepts, structures, and material options.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner with Product Development, Legal, and Copywriting teams to gather inputs, flag risks early, and maintain organized master asset libraries.

Digital & Performance Graphic Design

• Design Meta ad concepts (static and simple motion) built for stop-scroll performance — hook-driven visual hierarchy, thumb-stopping first frames, and clear ties to the offer or claim.
• Adapt and iterate winning creative concepts into multiple variants for A/B testing across audiences and placements (Meta Ads, D2C UI/UX, etc).
• Deliver Amazon PDP images: listing images, A+ content, brand story, storefront—respecting Amazon image guidelines and mobile-first viewing.
• Produce CRM email creative: hero banners, modular blocks, GIFs.
• Support organic social with brand-consistent posts, story templates, and short-form video thumbnails/covers if required.
• Creative Ideation: Contribute visual concepts for product benefits and mechanisms, maintaining reusable template libraries for fast turnarounds.

Who You Are:

• With at least 3 years of professional design experience, with demonstrable work across both packaging/print and digital/performance formats.
• Strong portfolio showing packaging systems (multi-SKU or franchise-level, ideally with production experience) and performance creative (Meta ads, PDPs, or CRM).
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite — Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign. Figma proficiency for digital handoffs.
• Understands print production fundamentals: dielines, bleeds, color profiles, finishes, common substrate constraints.
• Understands Meta ad specs, Amazon image requirements, and email design constraints (image weight, retina sizing, mobile safe zones).
• Comfortable working across multiple brands and switching between visual systems.
• Strong English communication skills, proactive risk escalation, multi-brand adaptability, and familiarity using AI design tools to speed up workflows.
• Familiarity with AI design tools to speed up creative production.

Strong Advantages

• Background in beauty, skincare, wellness, or regulated consumer goods (OTC/cosmetic claims).
• 3D packaging rendering experience (KeyShot, Blender, or Adobe Dimension).
• Light motion/animation skills for Meta ads and GIFs (After Effects or similar).

This job posting is for talent pooling purposes only. While there is no immediate opening for this role, we are collecting applications in anticipation of future opportunities. Qualified candidates will be contacted should a suitable position become available.

Selection process:

We want to get to know your technical expertise, your strategic mindset, and how you approach problem-solving. Here is what you can expect during the interview process:

Step 1: Initial Screening

A conversational interview with our Talent Acquisition/HR team. We will focus on understanding your core experience, your alignment with the role’s requirements, your aptitude for AI and emerging tech, and your overall cultural fit at Essor.

Step 2: Case Study Assessment

A practical, take-home exercise designed to give you an opportunity to showcase your strategy, technical capabilities, and problem-solving skills in a real-world scenario.

Step 3: Deep Dive & Case Review

You will meet first with the Hiring Manager, followed by the Head of Department. During these sessions, we will review your case study presentation, evaluate your blend of hard and soft skills, and discuss how you would collaborate with the wider team.

Step 4: Final Leadership Interview

A final conversation with members of our leadership team to align on high-level strategy, business impact, and long-term vision.

Digital Fluency & AI Integration

At Essor, technical fluency is a prerequisite for excellence. We look for individuals who are excited to pioneer new ways of working by leveraging LLMs, automated workflows, and data analysis tools.

Whether it’s deploying AI coding agents (Copilot, Antigravity) to ship faster, building agentic workflows in N8N or Dify, or querying data via SQL to drive objective decisions, you should be a practitioner of the "automated-first" mindset. While we don't expect Day 1 mastery, we do require a relentless "learn-and-apply" loop. We are committed to your growth through active mentorship and internal upskilling, expecting in return a commitment to continuous experimentation and the proactive application of AI to solve complex business problems.

Own your impact. Join us.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin will be considered. No qualified applicants will be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status.