Senior Graphic Designer

Senior Graphic Designer – Waldencast Brands

About Waldencast Brands

The Waldencast Ventures family of brands is comprised of Glaze, a line of hair glosses launched exclusively with Superdrug in 2021 and now expanded to Target in the USA, Coats a skincare line launched in 2022 and now available at Boots, and Whind a Moroccan inspired body and fragrance line launched in the UK in 2021 and now in the Middle East.

Job Description:

We are seeking a creative individual to join our team as a Senior Graphic Designer to lead the brand's visual aesthetic and develop distinctive creative across all consumer touch points. If you are a creative visionary with a strategic mindset and a drive to push boundaries in design, we want to hear from you! This is a unique opportunity to influence a brand's visual narrative and make a significant impact on our marketing initiatives. The ideal candidate will have 4-6 years of experience in the beauty or adjacent sectors, whether within an in-house creative team or at an agency or studio. The role requires passion for design, collaboration, and strategic thinking.

The Designer will collaborate closely with marketing, sales, ecomm and CRM teams to create a cohesive brand identity.

This role will report into the Waldencast President.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:

• Design and produce marketing campaign assets, social graphics and ad units for new launches and monthly animations
• Design Sales and Marketing seasonal templates, invites and presentations
• Concept 360 campaign execution and facilitate pre-production and presentations to stakeholders
• Design monthly website updates, new product landing pages and blog stories
• Manage and direct packshot photography for launches and evergreen content, including post-production and asset management
• Design and edit paid and organic social content including gifs, motion graphics and short form video
• Collaborate with Social Media Manager to produce high quality content and campaigns consistent with other touchpoints
• Design and update in-store displays and visuals in collaboration with Commercial/Marketing
• Design 2D retailer-facing communications and printed brand collateral
• Work closely with NPD on packaging artwork
• Supervise part-time freelancers and collaborate with design agencies to maximize efficiency and creativity in the design process.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in graphic design, visual arts, or a related field
• 4-6 years of experience in graphic design, preferable within the beauty, consumer or luxury industry either in a design agency or in-house experience
• Proficient in Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Bridge)
• Experience with web and app design tools including Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
• Strong portfolio showcasing your design capabilities and previous work in brand development
• Elevated typographical instinct and approach with a keen eye for detail
• Knowledge of best practices for image optimization, color profiles and video formats
• A keen eye for detail and a passion for staying updated on design trends and best practices
• Experience with motion graphics and After Effects a plus
• Knowledge of Shopify and HTML/CSS is a plus
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Strong planning, tracking & organizing skills

Compensation & Benefits

• Bonus based on meeting/surpassing agreed upon KPIs
• 28 Days PTO
• Medical Insurance
• Complimentary products

Personal Characteristics:

Individuals that are part of Waldencast are as much driven by the strength of the company’s purpose, as it is by sharing our dreamer/maker values: ambition with humility, idealism with practicality, grit with empathy, vision with action.

About Waldencast BrandsTM

We are a Beauty Pure Play because Beauty is different. Success in beauty requires focused expertise that combines art and commerce at a level of complexity unmatched in any other CPG category. Deep industry expertise matters.

• Waldencast’s strength is to spot, nurture, and scale the next generation of beauty and wellness brands by attracting the industry’s best product visionaries, brand artists, and the world’s best industry operational experts. The Waldencast team and industry collective are among the best operators in the industry who are unencumbered by the heavy structure, politics, and bureaucracy of the old groups.
• Waldencast will provide the platform for scale beyond what brands can do individually by providing unparalleled access, deep partnership, and clout with the leading global retailers. Applying its deep marketing, digital, and commercial capabilities. Providing access to the best R&D and innovation in the industry. Driving economies of scale on all back-office and shared service functions, but maintaining entrepreneurial, human-size, independent “front ends” for the brands to foster creativity, agility, and innovation.
• In its first 18 months, Waldencast has established itself as a magnet for some of the hottest brands and creative and operational talent in the industry. The group’s venture arm has already assembled and developed an unparalleled portfolio of 7 early-stage beauty brands. In its debut year, it was recognized by a number of publications and industry insiders as the beauty industry’s most influential early-stage investor.