Packaging Designer
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.