Packaging Creative Director

Kendo

Full-time - Senior

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction

About the position

The Creative Director for Packaging at Kendo will lead the design vision for packaging across various brands, including Fenty. This role involves creating innovative packaging designs that resonate with consumers and evolve brand identity. The director will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality execution of designs while mentoring and inspiring the design team in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the packaging design vision for all projects and ensure cohesion and consistency as needed
• Create original designs and concepts that speak to our client
• Deliver amazing (sell-out, award winning) holiday and limited-edition collections
• Develop and maintain consistent product and packaging codes across core products, line extensions, seasonal campaigns and promotions (style guides)
• Partner closely with product development and packaging teams to achieve the highest level of quality for each project - understanding limitations due to timing, costs, etc.
• Present designs to cross-functional partners
• Meet the deadlines of many projects running in parallel in a fast-paced environment while adhering to review and approval processes
• Comfortable implementing feedback in a timely fashion
• Demonstrate strong leadership and mentorship of team - project positivity, model collaborative behavior and develop the team to elevate and deliver results
• Build and cultivate ongoing design resources via full time and freelance talent
• Ideate designs/product ideas beyond what is briefed

Requirements

• Multi-disciplinary designer with 10+ years of overall experience in the beauty, fashion or consumer products, packaging design experience required
• 7-10 years managing creative teams
• Extraordinary collaborative and leadership skills, team-player
• Detail oriented leader, comfortable shifting directions, work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Must possess strong interpersonal skills and creative resolution skills
• Ability to quickly generate concepts and visually communicate those ideas with renderings and/or comps
• Excellent eye for color and typography
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong presentation, oral and written communications skills with professional demeanor
• Passion for beauty with a sense of both current and developing trends in print/pattern, art, and packaging
• BA or BFA in Design, Arts, and/or Graphic Design
• Advanced/Expert Apple computer skills in Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, with a specialty within Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign