Senior Brand Designer

Overview

Kate McLeod creates solid body care that delivers concentrated moisture using pure plant butters. Our waterless formulas melt nourishing ingredients directly into the skin, without dilution or fillers. We’re best known for The Body Stone™, a moisturizing lotion bar that delivers a deep-conditioning treatment.

Senior Brand Designer
- Location:

NYC. Job Type: Full-time.

Schedule:

Hybrid, 1-2 days in office. Salary: $120,000 - $150,000. The Senior Brand Designer is a hands-on, lead designer responsible for executing and evolving the brand’s visual world across packaging, campaigns, and key digital touch points. This role brings exceptional design craft, strong systems thinking, and production fluency—ensuring every output is cohesive, elevated, and unmistakably on-brand. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to translate brand strategy into thoughtful, precise design—building scalable frameworks while maintaining high standards across packaging and UX-informed site updates.

• Brand & Campaign Design Execution:
  Design and deliver campaign and evergreen brand assets across channels (site, email, social, paid, print, product storytelling); translate briefs into clear visual concepts, layouts, and final deliverables with strong typography and detail; maintain cohesion across touch points by applying and refining brand systems.
• Packaging Design & Production (Core Ownership):
  Lead packaging execution across new and existing SKUs—from concept through production-ready files; ensure packaging aligns with brand standards, functional requirements, and sustainability goals; translate dielines, regulatory requirements, and manufacturing specs into accurate, print-ready deliverables; partner with vendors/printers and internal stakeholders to manage proofing, troubleshooting, and quality control; build scalable packaging systems and templates to support future growth and line extensions.
• UX & Digital Experience Support:
  Partner with the Senior Manager of E-Commerce & Retention to support wireframes, flows, and UX solutions as needed; apply a strong brand lens to new site features, landing pages, and customer journeys; support design of key e-commerce modules and experiences where brand expression and conversion intersect.
• Photo Selects & Retouching Feedback:
  Participate in image review and selects from shoots with a strong point of view on composition, lighting, brand tone, and product storytelling; identify hero and supporting imagery across use cases (PDP, email, paid, social, print); provide clear, actionable retouching notes to ensure imagery is polished and on-brand; partner with internal stakeholders and/or freelance retouchers to ensure final files are clean and production-ready.
• Creative Systems & Operations:
  Build and maintain clean, scalable file systems and creative libraries; create templates and guardrails to improve efficiency while keeping output consistent and elevated; audit tools and workflows and propose improvements to reduce friction and rework; establish shared libraries (styles, components, packaging frameworks) to support collaboration.

• 8–10+ years of experience in brand design, visual identity, and/or packaging design
• Strong packaging background, including production workflows and vendor collaboration (beauty/wellness/CPG preferred)
• Excellent design fundamentals: typography, layout, systems thinking, and a sharp eye for detail
• Strong visual judgment and comfort reviewing photography, making selects, and providing retouching direction
• Working knowledge of UX and e-commerce best practices
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite;
  Figma preferred
• Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable collaborating cross-functionally

• Paid Time Off: 10+ days of PTO with 2nd and 4th anniversary increases, plus paid holidays and sick time
• Health Insurance: 80%+ employer contribution (medical, dental, vision) for full-time employees
• 401(k) Retirement Plan:
  Employee contribution only
• Performance-Based & Anniversary Bonuses
• 75% product discount and 24+ free products annually
• Regular weekly schedule
• Warm, supportive work environment
• Snacks, team events, and a culture of celebration

Kate McLeod is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome our employees’ differences in race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, among other characteristics.