Designer – OLEHENRIKSEN and Lip Lab

Job Description

ABOUT KENDO

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. A play on the words “can do”, Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• “Can Do” Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone’s voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no one else: It’s our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever-constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this position is $90,134 – $112,668 based upon a San Francisco location. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and location. Kendo Total Rewards offerings also include an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, a retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for a month in the summer and July and December wellness/shutdown weeks for applicable positions.

Effective January 18, 2022, as a condition of employment, Kendo requires all newly hired employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by their start date unless they have requested and received an exemption from the Company in the form of a reasonable accommodation due to a qualifying medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief or practice.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, KVD Beauty, Lip Lab, Ole Henriksen.

Kendo Brands has a hybrid work model with three days in office and two days remote each week.

POSITION SUMMARY
OLEHERNIKSEN is seeking a highly motivated, passionate, and conceptual Designer to join our in-house creative team. We are looking for a candidate with experience designing dynamic, on-brand creative assets, visual merchandising, print collateral, and social/digital advertising. The ideal candidate must maintain a strong understanding of design for print, digital, and emerging media formats. Designers with experience and familiarity in creating motion graphics are highly encouraged to apply. You must have a strong design aesthetic and typography skills with a passion for customer experience and brand storytelling.

This position primarily focuses on supporting the Creative Director in planning, managing and delivering strategic global brand creative from initial development to final execution and release. The role is also responsible for creating and developing innovative and refined creative assets that deliver the entire brand experience.

The ideal candidate must be highly organized and be a strong creative problem solver. The Designer will also partner with and assist other designers and senior directors on larger projects as needed. The ideal candidate MUST be an organized, creative, and strategic thinker who has the ability to prioritize and execute multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles, CA

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and produce comprehensive, brand-right layouts and graphics for seasonal and product-driven launches, including advertising and special projects.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of typography, photography, layout, graphic design and digital design; ensures all assets adhere to brand direction
• Assist CD and Senior Designer with graphic production tasks and project deliverables, including managing assets and ensuring clarity of direction and consistent use of creative across all channels
  • Shows knowledge of newest design, typography, illustration, fashion/beauty and culture
  • Execution of assets that meet business objectives
  • Assist in the organization of photo and design assets for our direct team, as well as coordinate final assets to be shared across the company or with vendors and ensure consistency across multiple customer touch points, with careful consideration for proper digital file types and naming conventions and compressing files, if necessary, for web
• Demonstrate solid grasp of brand aesthetic, usability principles, and high taste level in design sensibility
• MUST be able to independently AND collaboratively navigate the creative process, negotiating successfully with other teams while being communicative, proactive, resourceful, professional, and flexible
  • Maintains collaborative partnerships with supporting teams, including
    Brand Management, Marketing, Program Management, Product Dev/Packaging, Copy and Retouching
• Meet all deadlines under pressure and ambiguity with the highest quality of standards
• Positively receives critiques from peers and executives and reflects changes in work throughout the revision process
• Thinks about how a customer shops in current climate; focuses on solutions, and aware of the importance of a strong digital and inshore presence. Understands how creative can evolve or migrate from one format to different format and how the usability, efficiency and return can be impacted by doing so: ultimately aiding in customer conversion, sales, overall market impact and other business objectives.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree or BFA. Graphic Design
  (or related: Communications Design, or UX/UI) degree or equivalent experience preferred
• 5+ years of design experience in digital design focused on one or
  more of the following: E-Commerce web design, UX/UI, paid social, emails, and/or responsive design for web (mobile and desktop).
  Experience with Retail/e-Commerce, Fashion, and Beauty encouraged.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Can articulate creative ideas, either verbally, by example, or sketches.
• Strong problem-solving skills with focus on developing and recommending solutions quickly and in a calm and clear manner
• Must be able to work autonomously and remain flexible to changing priorities
• Knowledge of Adobe’s Creative Suite; with a comfortable and proficient knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop.
  • XD, AfterEffects, Adobe premiere, Illustrator, Bridge, and remainder of Suite is highly encouraged.
• Must possess excellent typography and design skills
• Strong understanding of web standards, grid system and responsive design as well as print mechanicals.
• Self-motivated, team-oriented, and have a collaborative approach to creative development
• Time management, organization skills, file management and excellent attention to detail and consistency
• Ability to work in a very fast paced environment and meet very tight deadlines
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word,
  Excel and PowerPoint
• Maintain a positive and open attitude while making multiple rounds of revisions to projects
• The drive to excel and succeed; self-motivated and agile