Graphic Designer

The Creative Store - New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Creative Store - New Zealand is seeking a hands-on Graphic Designer to join our Auckland team on a permanent, full‑time basis. You will contribute to branding, packaging, and retail campaigns across diverse categories, from beauty to lifestyle.

We value strong typography, color, and layout skills, a good portfolio, and comfort with AI-assisted ideation. The role offers mentorship, collaboration, and opportunities to shape brands from concept to shelf.

Qualifications

• 1-2+ years of experience in graphic design.
• Strong portfolio with branding, packaging, and digital work.
• Understanding of pre-press fundamentals (colour, bleed, dielines).
• Proficiency in Adobe CC and typography skills.
• Strong eye for layout, colour, and composition.
• Effective communication and team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute brand visuals across packaging, digital content, and product marketing.
• Produce mockups, renders, and launch visuals for retail partners.
• Translate concepts from ideation to print-ready assets under guidance.
• Develop brand identity across multiple categories while maintaining consistency.
• Support delivery of packaging and retail materials through production workflow.

Skills

Graphic design

Portfolio

Typography

Color theory

Team collaboration

Tools

Adobe CC

Job description

FREELANCE. We have a wide range of freelance and contract roles. Ranging from 1 day to 3 – 6-month contracts – offering you flexibility to pick and choose when you want to work. You have the option to invoice or to have your PAYE done for you. Easy As.

Graphic Designer

Are you looking for a role with a tech-forward company that is building consumer brands from the ground up and getting them onto shelves with some of the world's biggest retailers? You'll work across Beauty tech, personal care, sexual wellness, and lifestyle, and across every category they work in, the brief is the same: create a brand that wins. Design sits at the centre of everything they do.

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic, detail-driven Graphic Designer to join the Auckland-based creative team on a permanent, full-time basis. This is a hands-on role with genuine creative involvement – you will support the full lifecycle of new brands, from blank page to shelf, across categories as diverse as matcha tea, pet products, beauty tech, and sexual wellness.

They work at speed. AI tools are part of how they ideate and compress the time between brief and launch. You do not need to be an expert - but you will be working in a team that embraces these tools and will help you learn how to use them to do better creative work, faster.

Responsibilities

Design and Execution

• Support the creation of brand-aligned visuals across packaging, digital content, and product marketing for active brand launches
• Assist in producing product mockups, renders, and launch visuals for retail partners and campaigns globally
• Help take designs from initial concept through to print-ready files, under guidance from senior designers, ensuring artwork meets technical and quality requirements for global retail production
• Support the evolution of the brand's visual identity to stay trend-forward, category-relevant, and feminine
• Help maintain brand consistency across packaging, digital, and retail environments for each brand in the portfolio.

New Brand Development

• Be part of a team creating entirely new consumer brands - from early naming and identity concepting through to launch-ready assets
• Support the development of visual identities, packaging systems, and brand architectures across multiple categories
• Help translate category insights, consumer trends, and retailer requirements into compelling brand concepts
• Participate in NPD brainstorms and creative reviews, contributing ideas across naming, format, positioning, and visual direction
• Use AI-assisted tools to help accelerate ideation and explore concept directions during early-stage development.

Brand Standards and Quality

• Help ensure creative output meets brand, quality, and colour standards across formats
• Learn to prepare and manage print-ready files, working alongside senior designers and suppliers
• Support the delivery of packaging, retail displays, and promotional materials through the production workflow
• Help uphold visual standards, aesthetic direction, and brand integrity across all touchpoints.

What You Bring

• 1-2+ years of experience in a graphic design role; packaging experience is a plus but not essential
• A developing understanding of pre-press fundamentals - colour profiles, bleed, dielines - with a willingness to learn print production in depth
• A strong portfolio and an eye for layout, typography, colour, and composition
• Proficiency in Adobe CC
• Versatility and curiosity - comfortable exploring different aesthetics, from feminine beauty to bold wellness to playful pet branding
• Good attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks across tight timelines, with support from the team
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-first approach

Be part of a team building brands from scratch - not just executing assets. Every new project comes with real creative involvement from day one. You will work across an unusually diverse range of categories; no two brands look the same.

In this role, you will see your work on shelf with some of the world's biggest retailers such as Walmart, and you will be excited to join a growing, design-led team where great work genuinely shapes what gets built and get hands-on mentorship as you grow.

This is a permanent, full-time role based in the Auckland office.

We will only review candidates who have a valid work permit / working rights for New Zealand.

Due to the volume of applications, we can only reply to candidates who are suitable for our current roles.