Flex Designer II

Softline Solutions, Inc.; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K Retirement Plan

Paid Vacation Time

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Softline Solutions, Inc. is seeking a mid-level Brand Systems Designer to act as the production backbone of the Brand Systems team in Southern California.

You will ensure brand standards stay precise, assets remain sharp, and guidelines live across high volumes of work, spanning logo identities, packaging, print, digital, and OOH. The role blends production craft with brand systems strategy, defending design decisions and embracing AI-enabled workflows to increase speed, quality, and creative

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in brand design, graphic design, or related production-focused role.
• Strong production craft with understanding of brand systems and their rationale.

Responsibilities

• Execute logo design and brand identity work across active projects and deliver final files in all formats.
• Define and apply typography, color, iconography, and photography direction for scalable brand systems.
• Own brand guideline development for use by designers, partners, and vendors.

Skills

Brand systems

Production craft

Adobe CS proficiency

Typography

Packaging design

Brand standards

AI-assisted workflows

Multi-channel output

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

After Effects

Job description

Softline Solutions is a full-service digital marketing agency based in Southern California that helps businesses grow online by increasing visibility, generating leads, and boosting sales. We build tailored, data-driven campaigns across key digital channels and manage everything from strategy to execution and reporting. The goal is measurable growth, not buzzwords.

About the role

We are seeking a mid-level Brand Systems Designer to serve as the production backbone of the Brand Systems team — the designer who keeps brand standards precise, assets sharp, and guidelines alive across a high volume of work. This role blends brand identity production, commercial design, and multichannel output across print, digital, OOH, and marketing applications. You should be equally comfortable executing logo identities, preparing pre-press art files, producing packaging layouts, presentations, catalogs, brand guidelines, and managing brand templates that stay rigorously on system.

This is not a template-fill role. The ideal candidate combines strong production craft with a genuine understanding of brand systems — knowing not just how to follow the standards, but why they exist —and brings the strategic vocabulary to defend decisions alongside an active command of how AI tools are reshaping the brand design process.

What you’ll do

Build the Brand Identity Foundation

• Execute logo design and brand identity work across active projects — supporting concept exploration, producing refinements, and delivering clean final files across all required formats and lockups
• Architect brand systems end-to-end: define and apply standards for typography, color, iconography, photography direction, and imagery that scale across print, digital, and environmental applications
• Own brand guideline development — building documents that are strategic, comprehensive, and written to be used by designers, partners, and vendors — not filed away

Extend the Brand Across Channels

• Prepare and manage pre-press art files for print production — packaging, catalogs, large‑format, and collateral — with a working knowledge of print specs, dieline setup, and vendor handoff requirements
• Design OOH and large‑format adaptations — translating brand standards into billboards, signage, banners, and environmental applications with an understanding of scale and production requirements
• Support photography and imagery curation — applying established art direction criteria to asset selection, organization, and formatting for brand consistency

Drive Commercial and Campaign Output

• Produce commercial design work across a mix of digital and print: packaging layouts and dieline adaptations, marketing collateral, catalog design, presentation design, and campaign support materials
• Apply brand systems thinking to commercial work — across brand touchpoints and visual frameworks that feed into print, packaging, campaign layout, paid media, marketing, and email
• Contribute brand strategy copywriting: naming, messaging frameworks, brand voice guides, and positioning language in partnership with copy and strategy leads
• Stay current with design trends, tools, and emerging formats — including AI‑assisted workflows that improve speed, quality, and creative range

Nice to Have

• Agency, consultancy, or fast‑paced in‑house experience managing multiple brand identities and campaigns simultaneously — ideally across franchise, multi‑location, or licensed brand
• Exposure to paid media or email production workflows — familiarity with sizing, spec requirements, and handoff expectations for digital marketing channels
• Experience applying motion design or video tools (After Effects, Premiere, Cinema 4D, Blender, Keyshot, or equivalent) with a desire to grow in that direction
• Familiarity with Figma for design systems documentation or digital handoff workflows

Qualifications

Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in brand design, graphic design, or a related production‑focused creative role

Skills

• Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) — produces clean, production‑ready files and knows how to set up work for multiple output formats
• Solid command of typography, color theory, and layout principles — able to apply brand standards with precision and recognize when something is off‑system
• Hands‑on experience with packaging design — dieline setup, print spec awareness, and retail or CPG production context
• Working familiarity with brand guidelines and design standards in a professional context — you’ve used them to produce work, not just reviewed them
• Demonstrated range across at least two or three commercial output channels: print, packaging,
• Familiarity with AI tools in creative workflows: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Pletor, or equivalent

Why This Role

• You’re building alongside leadership — your work feeds directly into the Creative Director of Brand Systems, not into a queue where it loses context or momentum
• Work across a diverse portfolio of brands where craft and print production depth are equally valued — from identity to packaging to large‑format and beyond
• Build production depth and grow toward strategic contribution alongside senior brand design leadership — this role is positioned to take on greater ownership as the team scales
• Contribute to a fast‑moving, multi‑channel creative environment where the work is visible, the impact is measurable, and what you ship helps shape how Softline’s brands look, feel, and scale across every touchpoint
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Paid Vacation Time
• Paid Holidays

The pay range for this role is:
95,000 - 135,000 USD per year (Softline HQ)