Senior Designer, Packaging Design

About the Company

Marks is a consumer experience agency creating engaging moments across the entire brand spectrum-from brand design and packaging to content and consumer connections. Rooted in a deep understanding of human behavior, we help brands win in an age of constant change.

We are a global, collaborative network of 1,900+ team members across 25+ studios and 20+ countries, partnering with some of the world's most recognized brands to solve complex business challenges through design, strategy, and craft.

About the Team

Our Packaging Design Group is a multidisciplinary team specializing in the creation, evolution, and activation of packaging across complex brand portfolios.

This role sits within a dedicated retainer team supporting one of our largest and most dynamic clients. The work spans multiple categories, formats, and product lines - requiring precision, speed, curiosity, and systems-level thinking.

This is not a slow-cycle, single-project environment. It is fast-paced, collaborative, and deeply embedded in the client's business.

About the Role

As a Senior Designer, Packaging Design, you are a highly skilled, conceptually strong designer with deep Consumer Packaged Goods experience and a passion for crafting intelligent, scalable design solutions.

You bring both exceptional design craft and the ability to think beyond individual SKUs, building cohesive visual systems across categories, sub-brands, and product architectures.

You thrive in a high-speed environment, confidently balancing multiple priorities while maintaining creative integrity and design excellence.

This role requires a designer who is:

• Independent & self-directed: able to own projects with minimal oversight
• Collaborative: elevates the team while confidently "owning it" when needed
• Systems-minded: comfortable designing for brands that span several categories
• CPG savvy: understands shelf impact, hierarchy, and consumer behavior
• Adaptable & resourceful: excels in fast-moving, ever-evolving workflows

On Any Given Day, You Might:

• Translate briefs into compelling, strategically grounded design solutions
• Develop packaging concepts and design systems across multiple categories
• Extend and evolve existing brand worlds with precision and consistency
• Balance speed, accuracy, and creativity in a deadline-driven environment
• Champion design integrity across adaptive and production workflows
• Collaborate closely with Creative Directors, Design Directors, and Client Services
• Confidently present and articulate design rationale
• Navigate ambiguity with curiosity, clarity, and initiative
• Apply strong typographic, compositional, and visual hierarchy skills

Own Photography & Visual Asset Development

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  • Develop clear and effective pre-production documentation (shot lists, visual guidelines, creative direction)
  • Art direct photography to ensure alignment with brand and packaging objectives
  • Guide composition, styling, lighting, and visual storytelling decisions
  • Partner with photographers, stylists, and production teams
  • Direct and provide feedback to retouching teams to maintain visual consistency and quality
  • Champion image integrity across packaging systems and portfolio applications
  
  
  
  

The Ideal Person

• Possesses a standout portfolio demonstrating premium CPG packaging work
• Brings extensive packaging design experience, ideally across multiple categories
• Thinks naturally in design systems, portfolios, and product architectures
• Excels in fast-paced, high-volume workflows
• Is a self-starter who proactively owns projects
• Balances creative ambition with commercial effectiveness
• Demonstrates exceptional typography, layout, and visual hierarchy skills
• Is confident, articulate, and collaborative
• Understands packaging production and print realities
• Is resourceful, adaptable, and solutions-oriented
• Thrives in highly collaborative, client-embedded teams

You Bring

• Degree in Graphic, Communication, or Packaging Design (or related field)
• 6+ years of packaging design experience, preferably within a CPG-focused studio or agency
• Strong portfolio showcasing CPG packaging excellence
• Demonstrated experience working across multi-SKU / multi-category portfolios
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Solid understanding of packaging production and print processes
• Ability to work independently while thriving in a team environment

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $80,000 - $90,000 USD annually. Ultimately, in determining pay, we will consider the successful candidate's location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Group benefits currently include a selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage, dental plan, vision plan, basic and supplemental life insurance, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection, short/long term disability and 401(k) Savings Plan.

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Bachelors (required)

Solid understanding of packaging production and print processes (required)
Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) (required)
Demonstrated experience working across multi-SKU / multi-category portfolios (required)
Strong portfolio showcasing CPG packaging excellence (required)
6 years: Years of packaging design experience, preferably within a CPG-focused studio or agency (required)