Hybrid Senior Production Designer

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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

Job title

Senior Production Designer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$85,000 - $110,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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