KeHE-a natural, organic, specialty and fresh food distributor-is all about "good" and is growing, so there's never been a more exciting time to join our team. If you're enthusiastic about working in an environment with a people-first culture and an organization committed to good living, good food and good service, we'd love to talk to you!

The Senior Graphic Designer will play a pivotal role in creating and executing high-quality design work for packaging, marketing materials, and tradeshow experiences. Exceptional organizational skills, nimble problem-solving abilities, and passion for current graphic trends will drive success in this role. This role will collaborate closely with the Marketing, Brand, Sales, and Operations teams to ensure best-in-class execution, maintain an informed perspective on market trends, and stay ahead of consumer needs. This individual should have a can-do attitude, be able to roll with evolving creative direction, and be obsessed with design and production work and love to collaborate.  As with all positions at KeHE Distributors, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE’s Mission, Vision, and Values.

DUTIES, TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designs and creates various graphic assets from CPG packaging, sales collateral, trade show booths, point of sale materials to PowerPoint templates, and other forms of marketing assets and media.
• Updates and maintains current packaging to ensure consistency across all product categories and SKUs.
• Creates eye-popping and “on-brand” deliverables.
• Partners, collaborates and follows the direction of Creative Lead on all projects.
• Communicates with Creative Lead, Project Managers, Marketing Manager, Operations and freelance team on the timelines, deadlines and needs.
• Ensures quality, accuracy, and attention to detail on all projects.
• Participates in broader brand team initiatives such as staffing trade show booths, and other tasks as needed.
• Revises work based on internal feedback and performance results in a timely and efficient manner along with soft proof and hard proof reviews.
• Creates exceptional packaging concepts and design skills with proven portfolio.
• Interfaces with suppliers and vendors to communicate desired outcome of creative and production cycle for print accuracy and brand integrity.
• Follows brand guidelines, legal packaging label requirements, and other policies.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to effectively manage a wide variety of tasks simultaneously.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with rapidly shifting priorities.
• Tenacious focus on identifying opportunities, pursuing solutions, and achieving results.
• An energetic self-starter who possesses initiative, a sense of urgency, and an unyielding positive attitude.
• Effective time management and project management skills with an obsessive attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work productively and effectively in a team environment.
• Creative ability to take a powerful idea and see it through to completion (design through production) with an eye for aesthetics and hold extremely high design standards.
• Highly organized and attentive to detail to not let things slip through the cracks, you check, double check and ask questions.
• Ability to work independently and be accountable to deliver results.
• Must possess an ability to work quickly on tight deadlines while upholding the highest quality output with very strong multitasking abilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management both verbal and written.
• Expert proficiency in all Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro). Proficient in Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). Experience with Monday and BOX is a plus.
• Editing and strong Adobe Photoshop skills are preferred (Perform photo retouching and enhancements)
• Print and digital production proficiency is essential.
• Ability to organize and participate in leading a photo shoot.
• Minimum 3 days in the Downtown Boulder, Colorado office.

 EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in art/design or certification in related field.
• Minimum of 6+ years of general creative/graphic design experience required.
• Experience working directly for a CPG brand creative/marketing department or within an agency focused on CPG brands preferred.
• Experience in developing product packaging and technical design of product packaging with the ability to lead.
• PDF and/or Online portfolio required.
• Prior knowledge of CPG packaging legalities and certifications preferred.