Creative Director, Brand & Packaging

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$150K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Creative Vision & Brand Leadership
  • Set and champion the creative vision for brands across identity, packaging, and the broader consumer experience.
  • Translate strategy, consumer insight, culture, and business objectives into distinctive creative ideas and brand systems.
  • Think beyond individual executions to create ownable, scalable brand worlds with clear principles for how they behave.
  • Protect the core idea from concept through execution, ensuring creative integrity across every expression of the brand.
  • Know when to preserve brand equity, when to evolve it, and when to challenge conventions entirely.
  • Brand Systems & Omnichannel Thinking
  • Lead the creation of holistic brand systems designed to work across packaging, retail, shopper, digital, social, content, campaigns, and emerging channels.
  • Bring deep expertise in CPG and packaging design, including portfolio architecture, shelf impact, consumer navigation, and the realities of bringing packaging to market.
  • Guide teams in translating core brand equities into flexible visual and verbal systems

Requirements

  • 12+ years of progressive experience in brand and packaging design, including significant creative leadership experience.
  • A standout portfolio demonstrating brand creation, identity systems, CPG packaging, and broader brand activation across channels.
  • Deep expertise in packaging and a sophisticated understanding of how brands operate across the consumer journey.
  • Proven experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams and developing senior creative talent.
  • Strong strategic instincts and the ability to connect business, consumer, and brand objectives to creative solutions.
  • Exceptional presentation and visual storytelling skills, with experience leading senior-level client conversations.
  • Strong understanding of packaging production, photography, CGI, content creation, and the realities of bringing creative ideas to market.
  • Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite and presentation tools; curiosity and fluency with emerging creative technologies.

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.
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Propelis

The businesses of SGS & Co and SGK have united to form Propelis, a go-to-market ecosystem that enables marketers to move their brands forward with greater speed, clarity, and confidence. Our broad range of integrated solutions include brand creative, packaging, print solutions, branded environments, and content production. Services are delivered through our family of brands: SGX, Marks, Equator, Collide, and 5Flow. With a combined legacy spanning more than 150 years, Propelis commences operations with 10,000 employees in 30+ countries, nearly $1 billion in annual sales, and a diverse client base of over 2,000 leading companies.

318 employees (79 in marketing)

Salaries

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$150K/yr – $160K/yr

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Creative Director, Brand & Packaging

Propelis · Chicago, IL · On-site