Brand Designer

Santa Monica, CA (On-site)

$85K/yr – $100K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end brand design lifecycle from concept to production, leading identity systems, packaging, and brand guidelines while collaborating with leadership and production partners.

  • Own delivery of brand identities, packaging, and design systems across touchpoints.
  • Coordinate with clients, leadership, and printers to meet timelines and quality standards.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Consult with leadership and other team members to achieve client and studio objectives.
  • Work as a team member to comprehensively execute brand deliverables such as identity, logomarks/logotypes, iconography, color palettes, patterns, packaging, and web.
  • Create beautiful design systems that make a positive impact.
  • Envision and execute a brand visual system in a holistic way.
  • Understand timelines and meet established schedules, timeframes, and deliverables set to be delivered to clients.
  • Work on branding projects, from brainstorming and initial concepts through final production.
  • Create comprehensive brand identity style guides and presentations.
  • Design and produce print-ready packaging files, including dielines, label layouts, folding carton structures, and retail-ready formats across a variety of substrates and finishes.
  • Apply strong graphic design fundamentals — typography, layout, hierarchy, and color theory — across all branded touchpoints including packaging, marketing collateral, digital assets, and environmental applications.
  • Collaborate with production partners, printers, and manufacturers to ensure packaging designs translate accurately from concept to physical product, managing pre-press requirements and print specifications.

Requirements

  • Prefer a bachelor's degree or higher in Graphic Design or a similar field.
  • 5–10 years of work experience in design, agency, or a related field.
  • Must be able to show a portfolio of work that reflects creative thinking with a broad range of examples — including branding, graphic design, and packaging work.
  • Demonstrated experience with packaging design, including knowledge of dielines, structural formats, print production, and pre-press file preparation.
  • Strong graphic design foundation with expertise in typography, layout composition, color theory, and visual hierarchy applied across both print and digital formats.
  • Experience with creating comprehensive brand deliverables such as identity, style guides, iconography, etc.
  • Proficient/Expert in Adobe Suite, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign for packaging and print workflows.
  • Familiarity with packaging production processes including offset, flexographic, and digital printing, as well as finishing techniques such as embossing, foil stamping, and spot UV.
  • Collaborative and ego-free personality, with enthusiasm for working with and receiving feedback from our team of designers, marketers, and brand managers.
  • Ability to receive direction as well as take initiative.

Preferred

  • Bonus tool-kit: Experience in animation, coding, and/or interaction design is a bonus.

Benefits

  • We offer a great package including PTO, benefits, 401K, and holidays.

Club Kuma

Creativity is what drives us. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. At Club Kuma, we help create unforgettable products, brands, and experiences that drive business results. Based in Santa Monica, we partner with clients both domestically and internationally in a wide range of industries including art, consumer goods, automotive, beauty, and selfcare. Our partnerships involve strategy, creative services, development, and full-service solutions.

Founded in 2022
Santa Monica, California, USA
29 employees (5 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$85K/yr – $100K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
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Median Tenure
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Brand Designer

Club Kuma · Santa Monica, CA · On-site