Hybrid Senior Production Designer

at Dermalogica

• Job title: Senior Production Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $85,000 - $110,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Carson, United States

About the role

• Senior Production Designer overseeing all packaging, print, and production-ready assets at Dermalogica. Responsible for quality assurance and managing end-to-end packaging production workflows.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Production Designer is the technical owner and final quality gate for all packaging, print, and production-ready assets across the brand.
• Own all packaging production from design handoff through print release
• Ensure flawless execution across packaging, retail, and digital assets
• Act as a final QA authority before files go to vendors
• Maintain and evolve packaging and production standards for the brand
• Build print-ready files for cartons, bottles, tubes, kits, gift sets, and specialty formats
• Apply artwork accurately to dielines and packaging templates
• Conduct rigorous preflight checks (type, specs, slugs, PMS, bleeds, regulatory)
• Partner with printers and vendors; support press checks and color approvals (occasional travel)
• Support the team with graphic design (i.e., print, digital) as needed
• Print, cut, mount, and assemble physical comps and mockups for reviews and approvals
• Retouch and refine packaging artwork, renders, and digital assets in Photoshop
• Build and resize production-ready assets for PDPs, emails, banners, paid media, and global toolkits
• Ensure digital assets meet all channel specs and are delivered accurately and on time
• Maintain and update Packaging Guidelines and production standards
• Own file organization, naming conventions, and version control across Widen / Dropbox
• Manage and QC work from the Packaging Production Freelancer to expand capacity during heavy SKU periods

Requirements

• 7+ years of production art / production design experience, ideally in beauty, CPG, or premium consumer brands
• Deep expertise in packaging production, mechanical builds, dielines, prepress, and print workflows
• Proven ability to manage complex global SKU systems with precision
• Experience owning production end-to-end, not just executing assigned files
• Expert Adobe Illustrator & InDesign
• Expert Photoshop (retouching, compositing, render application)
• Strong typography, layout, hierarchy, and brand consistency instincts
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to deliver error-free files at scale
• Highly organized, process-driven, and comfortable operating independently
• Confident communicator with vendors and cross-functional partners

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus plan contingent upon achievement of specific performance goals and overall company performance