Senior Graphic Designer, Harry's
Flamingo
$91.6-126k
2+ days a week in office
Men's grooming brand
Job no longer available
Men's grooming brand
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$91.6-126k
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To offer high quality shave, body, hair, and skin care products at an exceptional value.
Role
Who you are
- Exceptional portfolio showcasing innovative design solutions across multiple disciplines
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design
- 5–7 years experience designing across digital products particularly for web/mobile, email, and social media platforms
- Strong understanding of UX/UI design and best practices to collaborate with our UX lead
- Super passionate about design, process, and industry trends
- Highly skilled with Figma or Sketch, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Google Suite
- Experience with After Effects is a plus
- Strong knowledge of digital best practices for digital channel formats (e.g. Instagram vs. email)
- Talent for graphic systems, color, layout, typography, motion graphics, and video editing
- Interest and experience in design for packaging, print, and art direction is a plus
- Experience building design decks and presenting your work to a variety of stakeholders (both designers and non)
- Exceptional communication skills, always sharing the why and how behind your work, and not afraid to ask questions to seek clarity
- Proven track record of collaborating cross-functionally on projects
- Open-minded, enjoys both working independently and in an energetic and collaborative environment
- Strong ability to work under pressure, organize yourself, and prioritize work to meet multiple competing deadlines
- Thrive on direct, honest, and supportive communication while being able to pivot quickly based on feedback
- Inquisitive, looking to understand outside your role, an eager problem solver, and highly motivated to produce best-in-class work
- Always thinking about how to help the teammates around you excel
- There’s nothing more exciting than a new challenge
- Knowledge and interest of beauty or skincare, wellness or related industry is a plus
- Sense of humor—we take our work seriously and ourselves un-seriously
- Ability to live by Harry’s values
What the job involves
- Flamingo is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Graphic Designer to join our internal Brand Creative and Comms team, reporting into the Head of Design & Art Direction
- This role will join a multidisciplinary team of graphic designers, art directors, copy writers, creative strategists, and marketing and social media managers
- With a focus on packaging and in-store retail displays, this role will own how the Flamingo brand shows up physically in the world—if you can touch it, you’ll have designed it
- This role is highly collaborative, frequently working across many cross-functional teams (e.g. print production, industrial design, R&D, innovation), to flawlessly execute on design-driven initiatives that stem from a clear understanding of our user's needs and business goals
- As needed, this role will have the opportunity to flex outside this scope by assisting team members in a variety of projects including: brand campaigns, art direction for still life and in-use photoshoots, brand collateral, and design of various digital assets
- Reporting to the Head of Design/Art Direction
- Working with Flamingo Creative and Comms Team
- Collaboration with Harry’s Design and Creative/Comms Teams
- Collaborate with Harry’s Inc. level DTC, Retail, Growth/DR Teams
- Collaborate, commission, and partner with external vendors (when applicable)
- Work within the Flamingo Creative/Comms Team and partner cross-functionally on projects big and small, establishing relationships and trust along the way
- Design and develop physical design assets, including:
- Packaging
- In-store retail displays
- Collateral
- Concept and art direct still life and in-use photography for packaging/retail displays/collateral
- Collaborate with the wider Creative/Comms team in concepting and designing digital and print assets for larger brand activations
- Assist in the design of brand digital assets as needed
- Collaborate with Copywriter in developing coherent messaging across the brand
- Build prototypes and create dynamic presentations to best tell your story to project stakeholders
- Design and strategize how the brand shows up in retail by creating engaging artwork
- Manage your design from an end-to-end process: conception through production
- Maintain visual identity systems across retailers and understand when to push our brand guidelines
- Evolve design to iterate and develop new approaches for how our brand identity comes to life around the world
- Work closely and collaboratively throughout the design process to ensure work maintains quality, deadlines, and budget
- Strategically develop processes that allow you to consistently meet deadlines and exceed expectations
- Ensure all creative efforts accurately represent project goals, user insights, and maintain brand values
- See the business and collaborative process from a 360 view, humbly get other's perspectives or input, and apply them tactfully into your work
- Continually explore opportunities to enhance, improve, and expand Flamingo’s brand value
- Mentor younger designers and help develop their work and career
- Stay inspired and connected to the industry and design trends
Our take
Harry's shot onto the scene in 2012 with the simple idea of great razors at fair prices. And at a time when buying blades felt like taking out a small loan, Harry's built a direct-to-consumer brand that made men's shaving feel modern and affordable. So, what started as an online upstart quickly grew into a serious player, landinow on the shelves of major retailers and one of the best known names in men's grooming.
The road hasn't been entirely smooth as in 2020, a planned billion-dollar sales to Edgewell Personal Care (the owner of brands like Schnik) was blocked by the Federal Trade Commission on competition grounds. At the time, this looks like a major setback, however, it have Harry's the room to keep building on its own terms. Instead of folding into a legacy giant, the company doubled down on growth, raised fresh capital and continued to expand its reach in retail and product lines.
Now, the company isn't just a small startup taking on the razor establishment. It has broadened its grooming range well beyond blade, built a loyal customer base, and proved it can compete both online and in-store. What began as a challenger brand has evolved into a mainstay of the men's personal care aisle.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2018
$112m
SERIES D
Jul 2015
$75.6m
SERIES C
Total funding: $474.6m
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Andy Katz-Mayfield
(Co-Founder)Andy is also the co-founder of Mammoth Brands where he has served as the Co-CEO since 2012.
Jeffrey Raider
(Co-Founder)Jeffrey co-founded Mammoth Brands alongside Andy where he serves as the Co-CEO. He is also the co-founder of Warby Parker.
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