ABOUT THRIVE MARKET

Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Every day, we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our over 1,000,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We recently reached a significant milestone by becoming a Certified B Corporation, making us the largest grocer to earn this coveted qualification.

THE ROLE

The Sr. Designer, Packaging, creates iconic owned-brand, original artwork that wows our members and meets brand guidelines and standards. In this role, you’ll be responsible for owning the packaging process from brief to final proof. You will closely work with Content, Brand Managers and Product Innovators to deliver award-winning packaging designs.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in CPG packaging design at an agency or in-house creative team who was able to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines. Requirements include a passion for mission-marketing; a deep interest in healthy living; and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a high bar for excellence. Thrive Market is a fast-growing and young brand. The Sr. Designer will be an integral member of the Marketing Creative team helping to develop and evolve our owned-brands identity.

This role will report to the Manager, Packaging Design.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own designs of consumer packaging goods in line with brand style guides from start to finish 
• Conduct competitive research, staying up to date with the trends and understanding the consumer landscape
• Collaborate with team members across photo, content, and merch marketing to determine objectives, style, and approaches necessary to complete creative objectives; Interpret and follow Creative Briefs
• Create presentations with packaging mockups and compile with competitive landscape for review by leadership
• Effectively communicate status of projects to key stakeholders on a regular basis, thoughtfully describing your process, strategy, and rationale
• Collaborate with Content on editorial direction of product packaging 
• Assist in choosing structures and material when relevant
• Work with production design team to deliver final assets
• Ensure final product is as accurate as possible by proofing digital and physical assets and communicating effectively with manufacture when necessary
• Ensure brand continuity across all packaging using brand style guide
• Identify new opportunities to elevate our brand in the packaging space, staying up to date on best practices of design, print and branding

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of design experience, preferably in agency or startup environments
• B.S./B.A. degree or equivalent experience in Design or comparable creative field
• Must love design and have passion for creating iconic, best-in-class packaging designs
• A solid eye, with conviction. A designer who understands modern design trends yet is always looking to optimize and push past them
• Strong CPG and or print experience 
• Basic understanding of retouching, color correcting, comping, and photo editing
• Have an eye for layout, color, typography with a finger on the pulse of current design trends
• Possess an exacting attention to detail and strong conceptual skills
• Mastery of the Adobe Creative suite, Illustrator, Photoshop & Indesign
• User-centric approach to concepts and design execution
• Highly functioning within a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills along with the ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously with a cool, positive, upbeat personality

BELONG TO A BETTER COMMUNITY

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Dog-Friendly Office
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
• 401k plan
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Stocked kitchen in our Thrive Market Home Office with Thrive Market products
• Yoga, meditation and other weekly events for mindfulness
• Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform
• Free Thrive Market membership and discount on private label products
• Casual atmosphere and great people to work with




We're a community of more than 1 million members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process.




Thrive Market is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer




At Thrive Market, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive work place that is representative, at all job levels, of the members we serve and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to be an inclusive company and an Equal Opportunity Employer and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. If you’re thinking about joining our team, we expect that you would agree!




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