About Twelve
Twelve designs and builds the world’s most inspiring merchandise and packaging for the world’s most coveted brands. With deep expertise across global production, creative innovation, and sustainability, we turn bold ideas into elevated, high-impact realities. Our clients—ranging from luxury fashion and beauty to leading lifestyle brands—trust us to deliver unforgettable experiences through beautifully executed product and packaging.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Designer with a focus on merchandise design for promotional and custom programs. This role involves developing trend-driven, brand-aligned designs for global brands, creating product renderings, and preparing production-ready artwork. The ideal candidate has a strong eye for design, understands branding, and can translate creative concepts into commercially successful products.
Responsibilities:
- Create compelling, trend-driven designs for commercial cosmetics merchandise, ensuring alignment with brand identity and market expectations.
- Produce production-ready templates and artwork files, ensuring technical accuracy for manufacturing.
- Ensure consistency across product collections by deeply understanding and adhering to client branding guidelines.
- Conceptualize innovative designs with an understanding of client preferences, target consumers, and industry trends.
- Maintain highly organized file structures for efficiency and easy access to design assets.
- Execute Photoshop renderings, production file setup, tech packs, and document creation for seamless project execution.
- Collaborate across multiple teams, including Creative, Development, and Production, to bring concepts to life.
- Work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail to ensure high-quality artwork delivery.
- Balance multiple projects simultaneously, adapting to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment and ensuring deliverables are completed on schedule.
- Execute internal marketing materials, presentations, and decks that support Twelve’s brand storytelling and sales efforts.
- Stay informed on the latest trends in art, design, typography, and product development, integrating fresh ideas into creative solutions.
- Leverage AI to improve process efficiency and automation while preserving individual creativity, judgment, and original thinking.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in relevant design experience, ideally within beauty, lifestyle, or accessories.
- Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, experience in Dimensions / Substance is a plus).
- Experience combining typography, graphics, and illustrations to create impactful product designs.
- Strong skills in illustration, pattern-making, and typography.
- Experience preparing print-ready files, dielines, templates, tech packs, and post-production artwork.
- Strong adaptability in working within other designers' files with non-destructive editing methods.
- Ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams while also taking ownership of independent projects.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and highly communicative in a team environment.
- Working knowledge of AI tools, such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, to streamline workflows and strengthen analysis.
What You Can Expect:
- 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
- Family planning and wellness benefits
- Summer Fridays
- Discretionary Bonuses
Salary: $80 -$90k depending on experience.
Twelve Inc. is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. It is the policy of the Company to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, alienage or citizenship status, disability, or handicap, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation, arrest record, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of relevant design experience, ideally in beauty, lifestyle, or accessories
- Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
- Experience with Adobe Dimension or Substance
- Experience combining typography, graphics, and illustrations for product designs
- Strong illustration, pattern-making, and typography skills
- Experience preparing print-ready files, dielines, templates, tech packs, and post-production artwork
- Ability to use non-destructive editing methods when working in other designers' files
- Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and independently own projects
- Self-motivated, proactive, and highly communicative in a team environment
- Working knowledge of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini
What We Do
We design and build the worlds most inspiring merchandise and packaging for the worlds most coveted brands. Women-founded and led since 2005 with offices on three continents, we create design-driven merchandise and all of the moments that surround it for the world’s most compelling brands, immersing ourselves in our clients’ values, strategies, and brand identity. We are led by innovation, rooted in agility, and defined by long-term strategic partnerships, many spanning over a decade. Our uniquely designed methodology drives end-to-end innovation; from Dream to Design to Development to Delivery. Category Offerings include: retail private label merchandise and packaging, influencer seeding merchandise and packaging, promotional branded merchandise, gifts with purchase and loyalty drivers. Our Added Value Services include kitting, fulfillment and warehousing, custom digital solutions, trend presentations and forecasting, material edits, sustainable solutions, interactive unboxing experiences, and more. We would love to tell your story. [email protected] | [email protected]
