Sr. Manager, Packaging Design
$130,000–$160,000 year
On-siteBeverly Hills, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead packaging creative design and production for multiple brands and licensees, from initial concept through final physical proofs. Oversee the full packaging lifecycle, including design, structure, substrate choices, and production of collateral, while ensuring outputs are innovative, brand-right, functional, cost-effective, and compliant with sustainability and regulatory standards. Manage and develop a team of four experienced packaging designers and two project managers, with dotted-line oversight of photo editing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and global vendors to navigate fast-paced, high-volume environments within club wholesale or similar fast-fashion channels. Assess, prioritize, and reassign workload and resources to keep projects on time, on budget, and on brand.
Required Qualifications
- Must have previous fashion packaging experience
- Extensive experience as a senior packaging designer or packaging design leader
- Ideally within club wholesale or fast-fashion apparel
- Proven ability to lead and mentor design teams
- Manage multiple concurrent projects
- Drive high-quality creative outcomes
- Hands-on expertise in packaging concept development (design, structure, substrates)
- Reviewing/approving physical proofs
- Comfort working with global vendors
- Navigating the nuances of international production and timelines
- High emotional intelligence
- Ability to read between the lines
- Build trust
- Translate feedback into clear direction
- Strategic mindset
- Passion for improving processes from ideation through delivery
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Confidence to operate in a high-velocity, dynamic environment
- Bias for action
- Ownership mentality
- Commitment to excellence
- Highly collaborative
- Relocating to 9250 Beverly Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 in Spring 2026
Desired Qualifications
- Ideally within club wholesale or fast-fashion apparel
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