Designer / Senior Designer

Summary

Magic Spoon is a food and beverage company seeking a versatile Designer or Senior Designer to join its Creative team. The role will create and extend brand work across digital marketing, retail, packaging, social, web, and other consumer touchpoints, including supporting the company’s packaging redesign. The designer will lead projects, collaborate cross-functionally, manage production details, and adapt to evolving creative priorities.

Responsibilities

• Create on-brand work across digital, retail, shopper, social, email, web, paid media, sales materials, presentations, packaging, and other channels
• Help extend Magic Spoon’s redesigned packaging into a broader visual system for the brand
• Lead assigned projects from kickoff through final delivery, including concepting, execution, feedback, and support production
• Help shape briefs, clarify direction, and identify practical creative solutions when projects are still taking form
• Manage timelines, files, feedback, and deliverables with strong organization and attention to detail
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners and communicate creative rationale clearly
• Adapt to changing priorities while maintaining quality and momentum
• Support photography, illustration, video, rendering, and AI-assisted creative projects
• Work with freelancers, photographers, illustrators, stylists, food stylists, printers, and other external partners as needed
• Prepare production-ready files and support internal packaging proofing, retouching, renders, and final assets

Skills

• A designer with approximately 4 to 8 years of relevant professional experience
• Flexible, self-motivated, and comfortable working across a wide range of projects
• Collaborative, low-ego, and receptive to feedback from different teams and perspectives
• Able to work independently while knowing when to ask for input
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and multiple projects at once
• Excited by typography, layout, color, composition, imagery, and brand systems
• Curious about new tools, processes, and creative approaches
• A clear communicator with strong attention to detail and a high standard for execution
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding of typography, layout, visual storytelling, and brand systems
• Experience creating work across both digital and physical channels
• Expert proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; familiarity with After Effects, Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar motion/video editing tools a plus
• Experience designing for social media, email marketing, paid media, websites; designing for packaging and print production a plus
• Strong design skills and organized file-management habits
• Experience working within an established brand identity while helping it evolve
• Highly collaborative, resourceful, and proactive
• All candidates must be in possession of identification proving authorization to work in the United States
• An openness to learning print-specific file builds is important as this role will support packaging design of new flavors, retail print support, and new product formats
• Experience in consumer, food and beverage, retail, lifestyle, wellness, or e-commerce
• Experience with shopper marketing, retail displays, or point-of-sale materials
• Art direction experience across photography, illustration, rendering, or video
• Motion design, animation, video editing, or illustration skills
• Packaging design or packaging production experience
• Familiarity with AI-supported creative tools, or an interest in learning them
• An eye for capturing appetizing, polished short-form product videos at home for paid and organic marketing
• Experience developing brand guidelines, templates, or design systems
• Experience working in Asana or a similar project-management platform
• Packaging experience is a plus, but it is not required
• Expert proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; familiarity with After Effects, Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar motion/video editing tools a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

• A designer with approximately 4 to 8 years of relevant professional experience
• Flexible, self-motivated, and comfortable working across a wide range of projects
• Collaborative, low-ego, and receptive to feedback from different teams and perspectives
• Able to work independently while knowing when to ask for input
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and multiple projects at once
• Excited by typography, layout, color, composition, imagery, and brand systems
• Curious about new tools, processes, and creative approaches
• A clear communicator with strong attention to detail and a high standard for execution
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding of typography, layout, visual storytelling, and brand systems
• Experience creating work across both digital and physical channels
• Expert proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; familiarity with After Effects, Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar motion/video editing tools a plus
• Experience designing for social media, email marketing, paid media, websites; designing for packaging and print production a plus
• Strong design skills and organized file-management habits
• Experience working within an established brand identity while helping it evolve
• Highly collaborative, resourceful, and proactive
• All candidates must be in possession of identification proving authorization to work in the United States
• An openness to learning print-specific file builds is important as this role will support packaging design of new flavors, retail print support, and new product formats

Nice to Haves

• Experience in consumer, food and beverage, retail, lifestyle, wellness, or e-commerce
• Experience with shopper marketing, retail displays, or point-of-sale materials
• Art direction experience across photography, illustration, rendering, or video
• Motion design, animation, video editing, or illustration skills
• Packaging design or packaging production experience
• Familiarity with AI-supported creative tools, or an interest in learning them
• An eye for capturing appetizing, polished short-form product videos at home for paid and organic marketing
• Experience developing brand guidelines, templates, or design systems
• Experience working in Asana or a similar project-management platform
• Packaging experience is a plus, but it is not required
• Expert proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; familiarity with After Effects, Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar motion/video editing tools a plus

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus eligibility
• 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental insurance (50% covered for dependents)
• 401(k) with company match
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible vacation
• Paid company holidays
• Paid sick leave
• Catered lunch in office
• Dog friendly office
• Unlimited cereal ✨ 🥣
• Open to remote candidates, as well as hybrid candidates based in New York City