Packaging Creative Director - Kendo Brands

Job Description

ABOUT KENDO

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury group. A play on the words "can do", Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• "Can Do" Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone's voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It's our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this position is $164,000 - $205,000 per year based upon a San Francisco location. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and location. Kendo Total Rewards offerings also include an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, a retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for two weeks in the summer and July and December wellness/shutdown weeks for applicable positions.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, KVD Beauty, Lip Lab, Ole Henriksen.

POSITION SUMMARY

We are looking for an experienced Creative Director who specializes in Packaging Design. This person will be responsible for creating outstanding packaging designs for Fenty and other brands that surprise and delight and evolve brand codes over time. This leader will have equal responsibility in creating designs and guiding / inspiring the team. They will partner with packaging development, production, and brand teams to bring ideas to life - owning the graphical and visual execution of products and collaborating on structures, colors and other initiatives. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, understands our consumers, industry trends, and knows how to create forward-thinking designs for ultimate product success.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the packaging design vision for all projects and ensure cohesion and consistency as needed
• Create original designs and concepts that speak to our client
• Deliver amazing (sell-out, award winning) holiday and limited-edition collections
• Develop and maintain consistent product and packaging codes across core products, line extensions, seasonal campaigns and promotions (style guides)
• Partner closely with product development and packaging teams to achieve the highest level of quality for each project - understanding limitations due to timing, costs, etc.
• Present designs to cross-functional partners
• Meet the deadlines of many projects running in parallel in a fast-paced environment while adhering to review and approval processes
• Comfortable implementing feedback in a timely fashion
• Demonstrate strong leadership and mentorship of team - project positivity, model collaborative behavior and develop the team to elevate and deliver results
• Build and cultivate ongoing design resources via full time and freelance talent
• Ideate designs/product ideas beyond what is briefed

REQUIREMENTS

• Multi-disciplinary designer with 10+ years of overall experience in the beauty, fashion or consumer products, packaging design experience required
• 7-10 years managing creative teams
• Extraordinary collaborative and leadership skills, team-player
• Detail oriented leader, comfortable shifting directions, work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Must possess strong interpersonal skills and creative resolution skills
• Ability to quickly generate concepts and visually communicate those ideas with renderings and/or comps
• Excellent eye for color and typography
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong presentation, oral and written communications skills with professional demeanor
• Passion for beauty with a sense of both current and developing trends in print/pattern, art, and packaging
• BA or BFA in Design, Arts, and/or Graphic Design
• Advanced/Expert Apple computer skills in Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, with a specialty within Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign