Packaging Designer

Otter Products, LLC; Fort Collins (CO); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Otter Products, LLC in Fort Collins, CO is seeking a Packaging Designer to join our team on a hybrid schedule. You will develop creative packaging concepts for customer engaging product packaging and ensure designs meet Otter Products' brand standards.

You will collaborate with designers, engineering and marketing to create packaging materials and work with external vendors to maintain brand consistency across packaging.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; Graphic Design, Art, Visual Communication degree preferred; experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
• Minimum of three years of design related experience required.
• Print or packaging design experience required.

Responsibilities

• Create packaging designs for a variety of product lines in collaboration with design, engineering and marketing teams.
• Review project schedules and status with Packaging Project Managers.
• Create and revise packaging materials according to business needs.
• Collaborate with Otter Products departments to design packaging materials meeting business needs.
• Ensure packaging print files are print-ready, with correct color builds, dieline placement, and artwork accuracy.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design/Visual Communication

Job description

Packaging Designer

Job Locations: US-CO-Fort Collins

Category: Marketing

Posting closes: 9/7/2026

Hybrid status: Hybrid = Work is completed at an assigned Otter facility Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with the option to work remotely on Monday and Friday.

Overview

Otter Products is hiring for a Packaging Designer to join our team in Fort Collins, CO. This role can work a hybrid schedule. The Packaging Designer develops creative concepts and innovative ideas for customer engaging product packaging. This role ensures the development of packaging meeting or exceeding Otter Products' standards. The Packaging Designer works with external vendors to ensure consistency of the brand on packaging.

About Otter Products

At Otter Products, we protect what's important. From our founder's garage in 1998 to the global technology leader we are today, Otter Products continues to drive growth through innovation and sense of purpose. Through our industry-leading brands - OtterBox and OtterCares - we provide our partners and customers the number one selling and most trusted products in our categories. Our commitment to excellence and our philanthropic spirit is the foundation on which we foster our partner relationships, allowing us to grow and to give - together. By way of our charitable arm, the OtterCares Foundation, we support our communities and invest in the future through education that inspires kids to change the world. Our founder's core values are still at the heart of everything we do. We measure our success not just by business results, but by our ability to give back to our communities and strengthen opportunities for all. To learn more, visit www.otterbox.com/pages/careers.

Responsibilities

• Work with designers, engineering and marketing to create packaging designs for a variety of product line.
• Work with Packaging Project Managers to review project schedules and status.
• Create and revise packaging materials according to business needs.
• Contribute to brainstorm, conception, team collaboration and idea generation.
• Collaborate with other departments within Otter Products to design packaging materials that meet the needs of the business.
• Interpret and develop designs based on packaging briefs.
• Create eye-catching designs and images to display the Otter Products' brands.
• Escalate risk through communication, meetings and status reports with internal packaging team.
• Recognize, research and discuss design trends, style, and packaging innovations, and translate them into effective design work.
• Collaborate with packaging engineers, packaging project manager, creative manager, and agency partners to develop and maintain print quality standard documentation and process.
• Ensure packaging print files are built to print and artwork standards, including but not limited to, reviewing color builds, dieline placement, artwork placement, treatments and translation accuracy.
• Work with creative agency to ensure design consistency and on-deadline delivery of all packaging.
• Serve as primary quality assurance checkpoint for all packaging creative.
• Support and maintain a positive safety culture by following all safety policies and procedures and actively contributing to a safe working environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required. Graphic Design, Art, Visual Communication degree preferred. Experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
• Minimum of three years of design related experience required.
• Print or packaging design experience required.

EEO

Otter Products, LLC is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic or status protected by law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act and in accordance with all other applicable federal, state and local laws.

Base Compensation Range Minimum

USD $70,000.00/Yr.

Base Compensation Range Maximum

USD $85,000.00/Yr.

Additional Total Rewards

Otter Products offers a robust benefits package to eligible employees including medical, dental, vision, basic life, voluntary life, long-term and short-term disability, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and 401(k) retirement plan. Additionally, for eligible employees, we offer accrued paid time off based on seniority, volunteer time off, parental leave, bereavement leave, company holidays, and years of service awards. Check out www.otterbox.com/pages/careers for more info., Variable Incentive Program - This position is eligible for the Profit Sharing Program.