Senior Packaging Production Designer

Job Overview

RUN Studios and its client partner, a large online retailer headquartered in Seattle, is seeking a Senior Packaging Production Designer for a 6‑month project. The role is fully onsite in San Francisco, CA.

• Prepare production‑ready packaging artwork for device cartons, in‑box documentation, labels, and regulatory inserts, ensuring accuracy in layout, typography, dielines, and print specifications.
• Manage packaging artwork across complex device programs with multiple SKUs, accessory configurations, and regional variations for global launches.
• Collaborate with packaging designers and industrial designers to ensure final artwork accurately reflects intended design systems and product presentation.
• Partner with packaging engineers and manufacturing teams to ensure files meet print production and manufacturing specifications.
• Work with print vendors and manufacturing partners to review production files, resolve print and dieline issues, and ensure mass production readiness.
• Review artwork for completeness and production readiness, including typography, color specifications, imagery, regulatory content, and dieline alignment.
• Manage packaging artwork updates and revisions across product programs, ensuring accurate implementation and documentation.
• Maintain organized, version‑controlled packaging files and documentation to support efficient collaboration with internal teams and global manufacturing partners.
• Ensure packaging deliverables align with product development milestones and manufacturing timelines.
• Maintain packaging templates, artwork libraries, and documentation standards across the device portfolio.

• 7+ years minimum experience in a web production environment.
• Experience producing packaging artwork for consumer electronics or complex hardware products.
• Familiarity with packaging manufacturing processes and print production workflows at scale.
• Experience working directly with packaging engineers, print vendors, and global manufacturing partners.
• Extensive production design experience on global packaging systems in large global CE portfolios with retouching skills.
• BA/BS in Design or equivalent.
• Excellent Adobe Photoshop skills.
• Proficient in Illustrator and Dreamweaver/HTML/CSS.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self‑motivated and capable of working independently.
• Strong knowledge of Flash, Action Script a plus.
• Retail web experience a plus.
• Illustration skills a plus.

• Supervisory Responsibilities:
  
  None.
• Physical Demands:
  Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Work Environment:
  Typical office setting; fully onsite in SF.
• Travel:
  None.

Pay Range: $80.00 – $90.00 per hour. Benefits may vary by location and nature of work, but eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits; health savings and flexible spending accounts; other telehealth and wellness benefits; a minimum of seven paid holidays per year; accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year;

a 401(k) plan with company match; discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance; and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.

As an equal opportunity employer, RUN Studios is committed to pay equity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.