Senior Packaging Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Develop innovative packaging concepts across SKIMS Beauty, including primary packaging, secondary packaging, sets, gifting, promotional packaging, and special projects.
• Translate the SKIMS brand identity into a distinctive and cohesive packaging language for Beauty.
• Create concepts from initial ideation and sketching through detailed design development, mock-ups, and final production.
• Explore form, material, color, finish, typography, graphics, and functionality to create elevated and recognizable packaging.
• Balance creativity and innovation with functionality, commercial viability, cost, sustainability, and production requirements.
• Create compelling presentations, renderings, and prototypes to effectively communicate design concepts to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Maintain consistency across the portfolio while continuing to evolve and elevate the SKIMS Beauty packaging identity.

• Translate creative concepts into technically viable packaging solutions, with a strong understanding of materials, construction, decoration techniques, and manufacturing processes.
• Develop and manage dielines, mechanical files, artwork, specifications, and production-ready files.
• Review prototypes, samples, color proofs, materials, finishes, and production submissions to ensure execution meets the original creative vision.
• Partner closely with Product Development and Packaging Development to troubleshoot technical challenges and identify creative solutions.
• Understand the opportunities and limitations associated with components including glass, plastics, metals, paper, cartons, labels, closures, pumps, applicators, and other beauty packaging formats.
• Maintain exceptional attention to detail throughout development and production.

• Partner closely with Creative, Product Development, Brand Marketing, Operations, Sourcing, and Production throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with external packaging suppliers, manufacturers, agencies, and production partners to deliver exceptional results.
• Work within established timelines, budgets, and launch calendars while maintaining a high creative standard.
• Participate in design reviews and confidently present concepts, recommendations, and solutions to senior leadership.
• Respond quickly to feedback and evolving business priorities while protecting the integrity of the overall design vision.

• Stay informed on emerging beauty packaging, materials, manufacturing technologies, sustainability innovations, and broader cultural and design trends.
• Continually identify opportunities to improve the consumer experience through packaging innovation, functionality, and design.
• Explore new materials, finishes, structures, and production techniques that can differentiate SKIMS Beauty within the global beauty landscape.
• Contribute to the development of packaging guidelines and systems that create consistency as the Beauty business scales.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 6+ years of packaging design experience, ideally within beauty, cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, luxury, fashion, or a highly design-driven consumer brand.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating sophisticated packaging design, concept development, structural thinking, and production execution.
• Demonstrated experience designing both primary and secondary packaging.
• Strong knowledge of packaging materials, manufacturing processes, print production, finishes, and decoration techniques.
• Experience taking packaging from initial creative concept through development, sampling, and final production.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• Experience with 3D design, rendering, or visualization software is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of typography, color, composition, materials, and physical product design.
• Experience partnering directly with packaging developers, suppliers, manufacturers, and production teams.
• Beauty industry experience and knowledge of beauty packaging components and manufacturing processes strongly preferred.

• Exceptional creative taste and a highly refined design sensibility.
• Deep appreciation for the SKIMS aesthetic and the ability to translate it authentically into Beauty.
• Highly detail-oriented with an uncompromising commitment to quality.
• Strong conceptual thinker who can also execute at a highly technical level.
• Commercially minded and able to balance creative ambition with cost, timing, scalability, and manufacturing realities.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong communicator who can clearly articulate creative rationale and confidently present to senior leadership.
• Collaborative, solutions-oriented, and comfortable working across creative and operational teams.
• Curious and forward-thinking, with a passion for beauty, packaging, product innovation, culture, and design.

Benefits

• Up to 100% Company Paid Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Kind Body Fertility Benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with up to 4% match
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Access to LinkedIn learning
• Employee Discounts

• Free weekly catered lunch at HQ – M/T/W/Th
• Dog-Friendly office on a Thursday and Friday
• Free Swag Giveaways
• Annual Holiday Party
• Annual Summer Party
• Invitations to pop-ups and other company events
• Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages