Senior Production Artist, Packaging

Description

About Us:  Born in artistry, built for real life, and fueled by a global community, Morphe delivers high-performance, high-design beauty without the prestige price tag. Leveraging exceptional product development, regulatory, and supply chain capabilities, we make innovative products that invite creativity and celebrate the freedom to look how you want, when you want. Join us in shaping what’s next in beauty.

Summary of Position:

The Senior Production Artist, Packaging partners closely with Packaging Designers to execute high-quality, print-ready artwork across packaging and related print materials. This role is responsible for translating approved designs into precise production files, ensuring technical accuracy, color integrity, and consistency across brands. The ideal candidate brings strong design fundamentals, deep print production expertise, and exceptional attention to detail, while collaborating cross-functionally to support flawless execution from concept through final production.

Principle Accountabilities: 

• Production Artwork & Mechanical Development 

Create, manage, and release final mechanical files for packaging projects, translating approved designs into print-ready artwork. Define and apply print specifications, dielines, and production requirements with precision.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Release Management 

Partner with Packaging Design, Project Management, Sourcing, Packaging Engineering, Regulatory, and Brand teams to ensure artwork accuracy, compliance, and timely release aligned to project timelines.

• Proofing, Quality Control & Vendor Communication 

Own post-release quality control, including review and approval of press proofs, color proofs, samples, and range boards. Oversee the output of matchprint proofs, both through external vendors and on an in-house Epson proofer, ensuring accuracy against approved artwork and color standards. Interface directly with vendors to resolve production issues, ensure adherence to specifications, and maintain quality standards; attend press checks as required.

• Color Management & Print Accuracy 

Maintain and apply color management processes across projects, including four-color and spot color workflows. Select appropriate Pantone color targets, match product samples to Pantone standards, and ensure accurate color reproduction throughout print production.

• Standards, Guidelines & Asset Systems 

Partner with Packaging Designers to develop, document, and maintain packaging guidelines, templates, and production standards that promote consistency, efficiency, and scalability across brands.

Budget Owner? Yes

Key Working Relationships:

• Design: Partner on building out artwork mechanicals based on approved design direction.

• Packaging Engineering/Sourcing: Partner to ensure layout and specifications are correct, and work to maintain quality control via proofs, pre-production sample review and range boards.

• Project Management: Plan workload to prioritize projects and releases artwork on time.

• Brand Team: Maintain consistency across brand design systems and specifications.

• Regulatory: Ensure international compliancy and other requirements are met.

• Product Development: Partner on product shade matching for packaging needs.

• External Suppliers: Work directly with external vendors to prepare artwork for manufacturing.

Travel Requirements: Some international travel may be required for press checks. 

Physical Requirements: N/A

Must be able to perform essential functions (with or without an accommodation) without posing a "direct threat" to the health and safety to self or others.

The Company reserves the right to alter, change, abolish and even combine jobs depending upon changing conditions.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience:

• BA in Graphic Design or other relevant education.

• 5-7 years production artist experience.

• Thorough knowledge of Adobe CC programs, specifically Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Acrobat.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including creating and editing Word and PowerPoint documents.

• Understanding of type / fonts, vector based design, line art, keyboard shortcuts.

• Understanding of raster/image based artwork and design.

• Understanding of printing techniques as well as packaging specifications and limitations.

• Excellent technical skills with a design eye.

• Excellent verbal and written skills.

• Must be friendly, motivated, and a team player.

• Ability to juggle many projects at once, while maintaining quality control.

• Must be open to feedback and comfortable with making multiple rounds of changes.

• Partner with Project Management to ensure PHQ 100% up

• Acute attention to detail.

• Able to troubleshoot minor problems with fonts, applications, and with your system.

• Ability to work autonomously or collaboratively as the project requires.

• Comfortable with creating and releasing small and large format files.

• Experience going to press checks a plus but not required.

• Excellent color matching skills

• Experience outputting and managing matchprint proofs on an Espon (or similar) proofer preferred

• Multi-lingual is a plus.

• Retail experience a plus.