Responsibilities

• Set and champion the creative vision across multiple client portfolios and categories.
• Guide the development of brand design systems and packaging ecosystems that scale across categories, formats, and retail environments.
• Elevate the creative ambition of the work while ensuring ideas translate into practical, production-ready solutions.
• Ensure work is strategically grounded, creatively distinctive, and executed with exceptional craft.
• Drive creative alignment across teams, ensuring consistency and quality across large bodies of work.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Creative Directors and senior design talent across multiple teams.
• Create an environment where teams feel empowered to push ideas while maintaining accountability to quality and timelines.
• Provide clear creative direction while allowing teams the autonomy to do their best work.
• Identify and nurture emerging leaders within the organization.
• Partner with creative leadership and operations to build strong, balanced teams across the portfolio.

Requirements

• Degree in Communication, Graphic, or Packaging Design (or related field).
• 12+ years of experience in packaging design, with senior-level leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading large teams and complex, high-volume packaging portfolios.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating brand-led thinking, system design, and packaging excellence.
• Deep knowledge of print production processes, regulatory requirements, and retail constraints.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Mac OS, and presentation tools (Keynote, PowerPoint).

Preferred

• Is deeply fluent in packaging design systems, brand architecture, and retail realities.
• Brings a clear creative point of view and the confidence to stand behind it.
• Is an exceptional communicator who can inspire teams and earn trust with clients.
• Understands how private-label brands operate at scale and how design drives value in a retail environment.
• Knows how to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and volume without losing sight of craft.
• Can move seamlessly between big-picture thinking and practical problem-solving.
• Leads with empathy, decisiveness, and a strong sense of ownership.
• Brings energy, curiosity, and a passion for mentoring others.

Benefits

• 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.