Designer

Twelve; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work environment

Mental Health Mondays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Summer Fridays

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Twelve in New York is seeking a creative Graphic or Multi-Disciplinary Designer for our Retail Product team. You will design products in beauty, lifestyle, and accessories, collaborating with top-tier global brands.

The ideal candidate blends trend awareness with product development, delivering high-quality designs aligned with clients' branding and market needs. This role offers hybrid work, full-time benefits, and opportunities to influence line layouts, mood boards, and production-ready

Qualifications

• 4–6 years design experience in-house or agency.
• Strong commercial design skills across mass-market to luxury.
• Excellent layout and client-facing deck design.
• Proficient in Photoshop renderings and mock-ups.
• Solid understanding of Pantone color system.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Art Director and Development team to produce renderings and artwork.
• Conceptualize designs aligned with client branding and market trends.
• Maintain brand consistency per client guidelines.
• Lead projects from concept to final production.
• Create marketing materials and collateral for Twelve.
• Mentor junior designers and support production workflows.

Skills

Brand development

Product development

Layout design

Typography

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Pantone color system

Job description

About Twelve

Twelve designs and builds the world’s most inspiring merchandise and packaging for the world’s most coveted brands. With deep expertise across global production, creative innovation, and sustainability, we turn bold ideas into elevated, high-impact realities. Our clients—ranging from luxury fashion and beauty to leading lifestyle brands—trust us to deliver unforgettable experiences through beautifully executed product and packaging.

About Twelve

Twelve designs and builds the world’s most inspiring merchandise and packaging for the world’s most coveted brands. With deep expertise across global production, creative innovation, and sustainability, we turn bold ideas into elevated, high-impact realities. Our clients—ranging from luxury fashion and beauty to leading lifestyle brands—trust us to deliver unforgettable experiences through beautifully executed product and packaging.

Position Summary

We are seeking a creative and commercially savvy Graphic or Multi-Disciplined Designer to join our Retail Product team. This role focuses on designing products in the beauty, lifestyle, and accessories sectors, collaborating with top-tier global brands. The ideal candidate has a keen eye for trends, a passion for product development, and the ability to produce high-quality designs that resonate with clients’ branding and market trends.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Art Director and Creative + Development Team to produce product renderings, presentations, and artwork.
• Conceptualize designs tailored to clients’ branding, market trends, and preferences.
• Ensure brand consistency throughout projects by understanding and adhering to client guidelines.
• Take ownership of design projects from concept to completion, executing and maintaining high design standard.
• Balance priorities effectively, meeting deadlines while communicating with internal stakeholders.
• Ability to relentlessly collaborate and at the same time work independently on several different projects at once.
• Must be commercially and financially aware of the business, from creative time management of projects and product development.
• Prepare accurate, factory-ready artwork and maintain organized production files for efficiency.
• Create marketing materials, including newsletters and collateral, for Twelve.
• Additional tasks may include mentoring junior designers, producing mood boards, sample photography, and file organization.
• Leverage AI to improve process efficiency and automation while preserving individual creativity, judgment, and original thinking.

Experience

• 4-6 years of relevant design experience at an in-house creative team or design agency preferred.
• Strong skills in creating commercially successful designs, spanning mass-market to luxury.
• Extensive Adobe Creative Cloud- InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator experience necessary.
• Must have excellent layout design skills, including building highly creative client-facing decks.
• Proficient experience in Photoshop renderings and mock-ups.
• Proficient experience in illustrating, printmaking, and typography.
• Proficient understanding of the Pantone colour system.
• Understanding of product development such as budget and material limitations, is beneficial but not necessary.

Requirements

• A passion for product - specifically within the beauty, lifestyle, and accessories space
• Strong understanding of brand development and consistency with the capability of solving complex problems through effective design
• Must have their pulse on the latest in product/design/fashion/typography trends.
• Ability to execute design tasks quickly and efficiently.
• Must be flexible, open-minded, and respond to constructive criticism with revisions to designs and projects as necessary
• Demonstrate excellent creativity, oral and written communication, listening, and decision-making skills.

What You Can Expect

• Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life)
• Hybrid work environment
• Mental Health Mondays: Once a month our offices close globally (that's an additional 12 days per year)
• Generous Paid Time Off -- Including your birthday, personal days, and time off around holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Summer Fridays
• Discretionary Bonuses

Salary: $75k-$85k depending on experience

Twelve Inc. is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. It is the policy of the Company to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, alienage or citizenship status, disability, or handicap, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation, arrest record, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.