
Junior Packaging Designer
twelveNYC
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Brooklyn • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $70,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Support senior designers and development teams in creating retail-ready packaging for a variety of brands.
- Assist with design execution across packaging collections, including layouts, graphics, and visual refinements.
- Research packaging trends, materials, and sustainability initiatives to help inform design concepts.
- Create mockups, comps, and basic renderings to help visualize packaging ideas.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute fresh, thoughtful ideas within a collaborative team environment.
- Learn and apply brand guidelines (when necessary) to ensure consistency across seasonal and evergreen packaging collections.
- Help maintain organized working files, ensuring assets, links, and versions are clearly labeled and easy to locate.
- Assist in developing packaging concepts with consideration for brand tone, market trends, and price points.
- Support exploration of new packaging materials, structures, and production techniques under senior guidance.
- Incorporate feedback from senior designers, developers, and stakeholders, making revisions as needed.
Requirements
- Internship or entry-level experience at an in-house creative team or design agency preferred.
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Packaging Design, Graphic Design, or a related field.
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).
- Basic understanding of how typography, imagery, color, and layout work together in design.
- Familiarity with print-ready files, dielines, and templates is a plus.
- Experience or interest in illustration or 3D rendering software is a plus.
- Basic understanding of packaging materials and print production processes.
- Ability to generate and communicate ideas visually through sketches, comps, or simple renderings.
- Familiarity with the Pantone color system.
- Open-minded, adaptable, and receptive to constructive feedback.
- Strong communication skills, Detail-oriented, organized, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
- Team-oriented, humble, and solutions-driven with a positive attitude.
Benefits
- Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life)
- Hybrid work environment
- Mental Health Mondays: Once a month our offices close globally (that's an additional 12 days per year)
- Generous Paid Time Off -- Including your birthday, personal days, and time off around holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Summer Fridays
- Discretionary Bonuses
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Hard Skills & Tools
packaging designgraphic designtypographyimagerycolor theorylayout designillustration3D renderingpackaging materialsprint production
Soft Skills
communication skillsdetail-orientedorganizedeager to learnteam-orientedadaptableopen-mindedsolutions-drivenpositive attitudereceptive to feedback