Senior Packaging Design Director — Beauty Innovation

Elfbeauty; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Equity

Annual bonus

Hybrid work model (3 days in office, 2

Job summary

e.l.f. Beauty is seeking an Associate Design Director to lead disruptive packaging designs across 2-3 brands, guiding projects from concept to production with cross-functional teams including Innovation, Digital, Brand, and Packaging Development.

You will shape premium packaging, stay ahead of beauty trends, and drive cost-effective, sustainable solutions for retail and DTC launches. This role blends creative leadership with strategic collaboration in a hybrid NYC-area setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years’ experience in a dynamic, high volume, deadline-driven environment
• Current on fashion, beauty, design, digital trends and our Gen Z audience
• Experience working with in-house digital teams, visual merchandising and E-Commerce
• Highly skilled on computer programs including Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
• AI experience
• Experience in art direction for beauty a plus

Responsibilities

• Create stand out packaging amplifying brand look and communication
• Provide leadership by example to create an environment of creativity, teamwork, adaptability, growth, and problem-solving expertise
• Infuse strong knowledge of beauty trends to create thumb stopping designs for new product launches, PR kits, social media, swag and collaborations
• Ensure timely development of high quality, innovative packaging based on brief, customer requirements, manufacturability, wall space, and 360-degree objectives
• Create cross-functional internal partnerships in conjunction with innovation, design, packaging development, marketing, NPD and operational teams
• Spearhead productivity initiatives to enable continual cost reduction through optimization of the entire packaging process
• Drive company-wide environmental initiatives through material reduction, use of post-consumer recycled resins,light weighting and other sustainability targets
• Oversee day-to-day collaboration with package development and the China development team to follow up on sample development and modifications
• Ability to design against both our retail and DTC environment for maximum effect

Skills

Packaging design

Creative leadership

Trend awareness

Digital/e-commerce collaboration

AI experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Photoshop

AI

Job description

e.l.f. Beauty is seeking an Associate Design Director to lead disruptive packaging designs across 2-3 brands, guiding projects from concept to production with cross-functional teams including Innovation, Digital, Brand, and Packaging Development.

You will shape premium packaging, stay ahead of beauty trends, and drive cost-effective, sustainable solutions for retail and DTC launches. This role blends creative leadership with strategic collaboration in a hybrid NYC-area setting.