Graphic Designer

About the Role

KENZZI is a company specializing in launching consumer brands across various sectors such as beauty tech, personal care, sexual wellness, and lifestyle. We focus on creating brands that succeed in the marketplace, collaborating with some of the largest global retailers. Design plays a central role in all our activities.

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Graphic Designer to join our Auckland creative team in a full-time, permanent position. This hands-on role offers genuine creative ownership, involving you in end-to-end brand development—originating concepts to final products—across diverse categories including matcha tea, pet products, beauty tech, and sexual wellness. We operate in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design brand-aligned visuals for packaging, digital channels, and product marketing to support active brand launches.
• Develop product mockups, renders, and promotional visuals targeted at retail partners and international campaigns.
• Prepare and finalize print-ready files, ensuring conformity with technical and quality standards required for global retail production.
• Advance and refresh KENZZI's visual identity to remain trend-conscious, relevant to category demands, and have a feminine appeal.
• Ensure brand cohesion across packaging, digital media, and retail presentation for all portfolio brands.
• Contribute meaningfully to new brand creation, including early stages like naming and identity conceptualization through to the delivery of launch materials.
• Assist in shaping visual identities, packaging frameworks, and brand structures for multiple brands concurrently.
• Translate insights from categories, consumer trends, and retailer needs into impactful brand concepts.
• Engage actively in new product development brainstorming sessions and creative reviews, offering input on naming, formats, positioning, and visual direction.
• Utilize AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation and explore creative concepts swiftly during early development phases.
• Guarantee that all creative outputs meet brand, quality, and color standards across various formats.
• Manage print-ready files and collaborate closely with suppliers for accurate, production-ready results.
• Support the production workflow for packaging, retail displays, and promotional materials.
• Help maintain visual standards, aesthetic direction, and brand consistency across all brand touchpoints.

Qualifications and Skills Required

• Over three years of professional graphic design experience, with essential expertise in packaging design.
• Strong knowledge of pre-press techniques and confidence in preparing print-ready artwork, including understanding color profiles, bleed, dielines, and print production.
• A compelling portfolio demonstrating skills in packaging, branding, and digital content creation.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite applications.
• Excellent visual judgment in layout, typography, color management, and composition.
• Ability to adapt seamlessly between diverse brand aesthetics, such as feminine beauty, bold wellness, and playful pet product designs.
• Willingness and curiosity to incorporate AI tools in the creative workflow; experience is advantageous but not required.
• Exceptional attention to detail and the capability to handle multiple projects within stringent deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset for effective cross-functional teamwork.

Why Join KENZZI?

• Be part of forming brands from the ground up, with authentic creative involvement from the beginning rather than merely executing assignments.
• Work on an unusually broad variety of categories so that every brand you engage with is unique.
• See your creative work featured on shelves worldwide through major retailers like Walmart and CVS across multiple markets.
• Collaborate with a growing, design-focused team where your efforts directly influence product development.
• Receive a competitive salary aligned with your experience.
• Join a permanent, full-time role based at our Auckland office.