Senior Graphic Designer (Recruiting for the Allen Company) MUST BE COLORADO LOCAL AND HAVE CPG PACKAGING DESIGN EXPERIENCE
The Allen Company (www.byAllen.com) has grown into one of the premier brands in the outdoor industry. We passionately focus on developing high-quality hunting, shooting, archery, and tactical gear. As outdoor enthusiasts, we understand the customers’ passion for what they do and are excited to be the brand they choose for their next adventure. Whether you take to the field or the range, our products are designed and tested by outdoor experts to ensure optimal performance at the highest level. Your experience is only limited by your gear—discover your potential with the Allen Company.
Summary:
We are looking for a talented Senior Graphic Designer to join our creative team. This position is located at our Louisville, CO headquarters. As a Senior Graphic Designer on our creative team, you’ll play a vital role in creating visually compelling packaging, sales collateral, catalogs, POS displays and trade show graphics. Reporting to the Creative Services Manager, this fast-paced role will be involved in all our product lines across a wide breadth of categories in the outdoor industry.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop consumer product packaging for the outdoor industry, specifically hunting, shooting, archery, and fishing categories.
- Support sales team by developing a variety of compelling collateral material including sell sheets, catalogs, fliers, signage, print ads and trade show graphics.
- Create style and brand guidelines to ensure consistency across a high sku count portfolio of products.
- Work closely with product development, sales, purchasing and fellow creative team members to ensure clear communication between departments. At times, guide the work of junior designers.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of consumer packaging trends, formats, finishes and substrates.
- Create die lines as needed across a wide variety of packaging formats including tuck boxes, trapped blisters, backer cards, clamshells, pdqs and hangtags.
- Manage the proofing process, vendor communication, and file organization for own projects.
- Create design elements, illustrations, icons, and logos as needed.
- Execute work with a high attention to detail and quality.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or equivalent and at least 8 years of graphic design experience in a consumer packaged goods company
- Strong portfolio demonstrating creative cpg packaging experience.
- Project management and experience setting and maintaining timelines.
- Thorough understanding of packaging and or print production.
- Expert in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
- Thrive in a fast paced, high sku count, deadline driven environment.
What you get:
- Base compensation in the $70,000 - $90,000 range (commensurate with experience).
- 401K and health insurance.
- Generous paid time off and holiday policy.
- Flexible 3 days in office + 2 days work from home schedule.
- An “own your job” and get it done supportive culture.
- The chance to learn and grow with a profitable, privately held, and scaling outdoor industry company.
At Allen we work to build a culture that attracts a diverse mix of talented people who are committed and vibrant team members that bring determination and passion to work every day. We recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a broad and diverse candidate pool. To be considered, all applicants must include a portfolio.