Senior Graphic Designer

Cosmetics; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Vacation Policy

Family Leave

Disability Insurance

Hybrid Work

Dog-Friendly HQ

Job summary

Milani Cosmetics seeks a Senior Graphic Designer to shape brand expression across retail, packaging, and the physical consumer experience. You will translate creative direction into distinctive design, develop compelling merchandising and packaging concepts, and build scalable design systems for consistency across retailers, formats, and channels.

You will define key visuals and flex them across in-store environments, product launches, retailers, and channels, while protecting creative intent

Qualifications

• Translate brand strategy into strong retail design concepts.
• Develop merchandising and packaging concepts that reflect brand identity.
• Lead production-ready files with dielines, dimensions, and color specs.
• Collaborate across Creative, Marketing, Visual Merchandising and Production.
• Maintain consistency across retailers, formats and environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate brand and campaign strategy into visual ideas.
• Develop merchandising concepts and packaging concepts.
• Lead production-ready files and dielines for production.
• Collaborate across Creative, Marketing, Visual Merchandising, and Production.

Skills

Brand systems

Retail design

Visual merchandising

Production design

Cross-functional collaboration

Art direction support

Tools

3D visualization tools

Job description

Milani Cosmetics is built on a simple belief: beauty should feel exceptional, every day. For more than 20 years, that principle has guided the brand's mission to raise the standard of mass beauty. Working with trusted suppliers in Italy, South Korea, the US and beyond, Milani creates formulas with premium ingredients, rich pigments and meticulous detail; products designed to exceed expectations.

Today, Milani has built a cult following as the #7 U.S. mass color cosmetics brand, the third fastest- growing brand and the only independent brand in the top 10. Milani is known for its best-selling Baked Blush, crafted through a unique baking process on Italian terracotta tiles, along with Make it Last Setting Spray Original, the #1 ranked mass setting spray. The brand’s products feature premium skin-loving ingredients and technologies such as guava fruit extract, blue algae, chamomile, glycerin and niacinamide, and all products are proudly cruelty-free. For Milani, what’s inside matters, which is why every product is made with ingredients worthy of the consumers who wear them.

What's Inside is Everything!

Summary

Milani Cosmetics is seeking aSenior Graphic Designerto shape key brand expression across retail, packaging, and the broader physical consumer experience.This role is ideal for a conceptual, systems-minded designer who can translate creative and art direction into distinctive design, develop compelling merchandising and packaging concepts, and build thoughtful frameworks that create consistency across retailers, formats, categories, and environments.

You are comfortable developing key visuals and defining how they flex acrossin-store environments,productlaunches, retailers, and channels. You bring strong visual judgment, systems thinking, and hands‑on production knowledge, with the ability to protect creative intent frominitialconcept through final execution.

Reporting to the Art Director and partnering closely with the Executive Creative Director, you will translate brand and campaign strategy into compelling visual ideas with a clear point of view across typography, imagery, color, composition, hierarchy, and product storytelling. You will also provide clear creative guidance and quality control to production designers and external partners across Marketing, Visual Merchandising, and print production.

Responsibilities

Key Art, Brand & Systems

• Partner withArt Directorto develop and extend campaign key art and launch concepts across retail applications
• HelpdefineMilani’s evolving brand identity and translate it into a recognizable physical brand experience
• Build scalable design systems across retailers, fixture sizes, categories, launches, and evergreen programs
• Establish cohesive frameworks for typography, imagery, color, hierarchy, product communication, and retailer adaptationswhilemaintainingan editorial visual approach
• Help develop and evolve visual merchandising guidelines, templates, and standards that improve consistency and efficiency

Visual Merchandising & Retail Design

• Develop elevated visual merchandising concepts and systems across fixtures, displays, launches, signage, product navigation, and promotional environments
• Translate brand and campaign strategy into compelling physical retail experiences that strengthen storytelling, hierarchy, navigation, andshopability
• Adapt creative intelligently across retailer‑specific formats and constraints whilemaintainingbrand consistency
• Lead retail programs from concept and visualization through final production
• Create polished retail mockups and presentations that clearly communicate creative intent

Brand Systems & Production Design Leadership

• Own work from concept through production, balancing creative ambition with retail, print, and fabrication requirements
• Prepareaccurateproduction‑ready files, includingdielines, mechanicals, dimensions, imagery, color specifications, and final artwork
• Brief, direct, and partner with production designers on rollout work,providingclear design guidance, templates, examples, feedback, and final approvals.
• Review proofs, prototypes, and production outputs to ensure creative intentand quality are maintained
• Contribute to broader physical brand initiatives—including packaging systemsand print collateral—as needed

Collaboration & Ownership

• Partner cross‑functionally across Creative, Marketing, Visual Merchandising, and Production
• Clearly present and articulate design thinking and creative decisions
• Manage multiple complex projects and shifting priorities without compromising quality

  Additional Strengths

  • Retail fixture, print, and fabrication vendor experience
  • Development of visual merchandising or retail brand guidelines
  • Packaging graphics and packaging systems
  • 3D visualization, rendering, or environmental design tools

  What Success Looks Like

  • Elevate the creative standard of our retail presence
  • Successfully bring our evolving brand identity into physical environments
  • Strengthen the connection between campaign key art and the shopper experience
  • Establish scalable visual merchandising systems across retailers and formats
  • Improve retail consistency, storytelling, navigation, andshopability

  Portfolio

  We would like to see sophisticated visual merchandising and retail design, campaign/key art development or extension, scalable design systems, strong typography and product storytelling, and evidence of concept‑to‑production ownership.

  Beauty experience is valuable, but exceptional retail design thinking and taste are more important than category experience.

  Please include a URL to a strong portfolioshowcasingrelevant work.

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k w/ Company Match)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Generous Vacation Time Policy
  • Family Leave
  • Short Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Work Environment / Hybrid (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday required on site in Milani’s Culver City Office)
  • Dog-Friendly HQ

  Compensation:

  The base salary range represents the low and high end of Milani’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on factors including, but not limited to location, education, skills, and experience. The base salary range for this role is $85,000.00 to $100,000.00.

  EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability