Packaging Designer

**Job Summary** We are a leading barbecue accessory manufacturer supplying all major big-box retailers across North America, alongside a rapidly growing private-label business for grocery and hardware stores. We are seeking a creative, detail-oriented **Packaging Graphic & Artwork Designer** that is a self-starter that can take on a variety of tasks that allow for the successful completion of packaging designs, sell sheets, signage, planograms, catalogue, and power point presentation layouts. You will use advanced AI-assisted design workflows to accelerate creative concepts and utilize our internal project management ecosystem to keep high-volume private label rollouts on schedule. **Key Responsibilities** * **Visual Asset Creation:** Design striking, high-impact retail packaging artwork, including full-box graphics, wrap cards, hangtags, header cards, PDQ's, and floor display. * **AI-Enhanced Workflows:** Leverage **Photoshop AI** features (such as Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and advanced object selection) to efficiently manipulate lifestyle imagery, clean up product photography, and composite barbecue accessories into realistic retail settings. * **Project Tracking & Operations:** Maintain real-time project updates within [**Monday.com**](http://Monday.com), ensuring all creative milestones, asset requests, and multi-SKU private label deadlines are accurately tracked and visible to stakeholders. * And, provide direction to Overseas Team on packaging projects. * **Collaborative Proofing:** Manage the feedback and approval pipeline using **Ziflow**. Upload design iterations, review multi-department markups, implement vendor feedback, and secure final approvals for production-ready artwork. * **Private-Label Execution:** Adapt core design systems to match the strict visual brand guidelines of various grocery, hardware and major retailers * **Die-line Application:** Seamlessly lay out complex graphics, typography, photography, and text onto pre-existing 2D structural die-lines provided by our China team. * **Retail Compliance & Prep:** Prepare pixel-perfect, press-ready files for global printing partners. Ensure flawless placement of mandatory elements including UPC barcodes, warning labels, multilingual copy, and multi-color setups (CMYK + Pantones). **Required Skills & Qualifications** * **Experience:** 35+ years of dedicated professional graphic design experience, with a heavy portfolio focus on Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), hardgoods, or retail packaging. * **Software Mastery:** Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Adobe Illustrator (for vector artwork/dieline layout) and Adobe Photoshop (with proven expertise utilizing **Photoshop AI** tools for creative efficiency). * **Workflow Tool Proficiency:** Hands-on experience working within [**Monday.com**](http://Monday.com) for task tracking and **Ziflow** (or closely equivalent digital proofing software) for managing collaborative asset approvals. * **Typography & Hierarchy:** A masterful eye for typography and visual hierarchy, ensuring key product features and barbecue tool selling points are instantly scannable on crowded retail shelves. * **Print Production Knowledge:** Deep understanding of commercial printing processes (flexography, litho-lamination, digital prepress) and how color behaves on different cardboard substrates (kraft vs. white corrugated). * **Detail-Oriented:** Exceptional proofing skills to manage dense packaging copy, legal requirements, and multi-language translations without errors.