Art Director
Apply NowCompany: Maesa
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
#MaesaMagic
Maesa is the world's largest independent beauty incubator, housing numerous, fast growing "it" brands within all categories of beauty. We are a high growth global company in the middle of the transition from founder lead to private equity owned. With an incubation flywheel ideating on new global brand launches, Maesa pushes creative and technical boundaries to deliver exceptional performance and establish global staying power. Maesa has a keen focus on marketing and white space analysis, which guides its thinking on marketing existing brands as well as development of new brands through its extremely unique structure. We are vertically integrated globally with in-house marketing, branding, product development/formulation, packaging design/engineering and regulatory. With a focus on modernity and sustainability, we design innovative solutions and make proactive choices to achieve environmental neutrality and consumer wellness. Maesa has mastered "commercializing creativity," making itself a leader in the fundamental revolutionary change in the beauty industry. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Dongguan, Maesa employs about 400 team members worldwide.
Work Location: 225 Liberty Street, Suite 2301, New York, NY 10281
Hours/Week: 40
No. of Positions Available: 1
Responsibilities
Qualifications
What We Offer
$90,000 - $116,000. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This position is eligible for participation in a discretionary bonus plan based on individual and company performance.
Maesa offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees. Employees can choose to enroll in health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans. Through generous paid time off, a hybrid office setup, and paid leave options, Maesa encourages wellness and balance among employees.
Our Commitment to You
At Maesa, we live by our values of collaboration, curiosity, game-changing, creativity, and discipline. We believe our people and partners are a creative force that catalyzes the possibilities in beauty to break through traditional limits and discover the "new" without restriction. We prioritize creating and fostering a welcoming environment for employees, partners, ideas, approaches, and endeavors - all through a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. As set forth in Maesa's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
#LI-DNI
Maesa is the world's largest independent beauty incubator, housing numerous, fast growing "it" brands within all categories of beauty. We are a high growth global company in the middle of the transition from founder lead to private equity owned. With an incubation flywheel ideating on new global brand launches, Maesa pushes creative and technical boundaries to deliver exceptional performance and establish global staying power. Maesa has a keen focus on marketing and white space analysis, which guides its thinking on marketing existing brands as well as development of new brands through its extremely unique structure. We are vertically integrated globally with in-house marketing, branding, product development/formulation, packaging design/engineering and regulatory. With a focus on modernity and sustainability, we design innovative solutions and make proactive choices to achieve environmental neutrality and consumer wellness. Maesa has mastered "commercializing creativity," making itself a leader in the fundamental revolutionary change in the beauty industry. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Dongguan, Maesa employs about 400 team members worldwide.
Work Location: 225 Liberty Street, Suite 2301, New York, NY 10281
Hours/Week: 40
No. of Positions Available: 1
Responsibilities
- Oversee the design of graphic presentations of products in a unique way for each brand of retailer, including devising branding concepts, creating logos, developing packaging, and designing advertising
- Collaborating with clients to understand and assess their graphic presentation requirements
- Determining the most effective means of building the client's corporate identity and brand presentation
- Identifying and developing techniques for brand differentiation
- Conferring with clients' sales, marketing, and design staff to conceptualize new graphics ideas based on an understanding of competitive products and market needs
- Developing and designing storyboards and user maps
- Preparing sketches, drawings, and specifications to translate product ideas into unique and captivating packaging
- Creating logos, samples, and packaging prototypes to assess conceptual designs, in compliance with U.S. and European licensing and trademark requirements
- Evaluating and approving graphics and layouts
- Drafting and maintaining design documentation to assure quality in graphic designs
- Creating improvements to existing graphic designs
- Researching design and marketing developments to constantly improve design ability, and related product and industry knowledge
- Promoting the company's graphic design services and its international promotion operations to clients
- Providing input to the company's sales and marketing departments to develop pricing schedules for graphic design services.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Product Design, Graphic Design, or related
- 2 years in job offered, as Graphic Designer, or related, including 2 years in the color cosmetics, beauty, or fashion industries
- Adobe Creative Suite, including Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop
What We Offer
$90,000 - $116,000. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This position is eligible for participation in a discretionary bonus plan based on individual and company performance.
Maesa offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees. Employees can choose to enroll in health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans. Through generous paid time off, a hybrid office setup, and paid leave options, Maesa encourages wellness and balance among employees.
Our Commitment to You
At Maesa, we live by our values of collaboration, curiosity, game-changing, creativity, and discipline. We believe our people and partners are a creative force that catalyzes the possibilities in beauty to break through traditional limits and discover the "new" without restriction. We prioritize creating and fostering a welcoming environment for employees, partners, ideas, approaches, and endeavors - all through a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. As set forth in Maesa's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
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