Director, Graphic Design

Published: 6/14/2022

Job Description

About Samyang America

Samyang America stands as the #1 Gen Z brand, boldly shaping the future of food culture with innovative flavors, viral trends, and unforgettable brand experiences. We don’t just create food - we craft moments that spark excitement, inspire connection, and celebrate bold individuality.

Our mission is to bring daring, delicious products to the market that resonate deeply with the next generation of food lovers. From iconic spicy noodles to creative new launches, we are driven by passion, creativity, and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of taste and culture.

At Samyang America, you’ll join a dynamic team that thrives on innovation, collaboration, and a shared love for bold flavor experiences. We value fresh ideas, energetic spirit, and the courage to lead trends rather than follow them.

If you’re ready to be part of a brand that’s more than just food - a brand that moves culture and creates unforgettable moments - join our team today!

Position Summary:

The Director, Graphic Design leads the company's overall graphic design vision and execution across packaging, brand identity, e-commerce, digital, retail, and other consumer-facing channels GR. This role ensures a consistent, compelling, and differentiated visual expression of the company's brands while partnering closely with Marketing, Brand, Sales, E-commerce, Innovation, and other cross-functional teams.

This position will lead internal and external creative resources, establish design standards and processes, and ensure high-quality creative execution that supports brand growth and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Brand & Creative Strategy

Own the overall design vision and creative direction for the company and its portfolio of brands.
Translate brand positioning, consumer insights, and business objectives into compelling visual strategies.
Establish and evolve brand identities, visual languages, design principles, and creative standards.
Develop a clear creative vision that differentiates the company and brands within a competitive food CPG marketplace.
Serve as the senior design authority and champion design excellence across the organization.
Partner with Marketing and Brand leadership to develop annual and long-term creative priorities.

Packaging Design

Lead the end-to-end packaging design strategy and creative development process across new products, renovations, line extensions, and portfolio updates.
Establish packaging architecture and design systems that create consistency while allowing individual products and brands to stand out.
Partner with Innovation, R&D, Marketing, Sales, and TOR to ensure packaging designs are both creatively compelling and commercially viable.
Oversee design development from initial concepts through final artwork, production, and commercialization.
Ensure packaging effectively communicates brand equities, product benefits, claims, hierarchy, and shelf impact.
Collaborate with printers, packaging suppliers, agencies, photographers, illustrators, and other creative partners.

E-Commerce & Digital Experience

Own the design vision for the company's e-commerce and digital consumer experiences.
Lead the visual design of websites, e-commerce platforms, product detail pages, digital campaigns, and other consumer-facing experiences.
Ensure digital experiences are consistent with brand identity while optimized for consumer engagement and conversion.
Partner with E-commerce, Digital Marketing, Technology, and external agencies to establish effective design systems and user experiences.
Develop guidelines for digital photography, product imagery, icons, graphics, typography, and other digital assets.
Ensure brand consistency across owned digital channels and key retail/e-commerce platforms.

Creative Direction & Content

Provide creative direction for photography, video, illustration, typography, and other visual content.
Lead art direction for product photography, lifestyle photography, campaign development, and digital content.
Build and maintain a high-quality library of brand and product assets.
Establish visual standards for social media, advertising, retail, presentations, and other marketing communications.
Partner with internal marketing teams and external creative agencies to bring campaigns and brand stories to life.

Retail & Commercial Design

Ensure the brand experience translates effectively from packaging to retail environments and shopper touchpoints.
Oversee design for point-of-sale materials, displays, trade marketing, sales presentations, and other commercial applications.
Partner with Sales and Customer Marketing to create compelling, on-brand retail experiences.
Ensure designs work effectively across multiple retailers, channels, formats, and consumer environments.

Design Systems & Governance

Establish and maintain comprehensive brand and design guidelines.
Develop scalable design systems that enable consistency across brands, channels, and teams.
Create efficient workflows, briefing processes, approval processes, and creative standards.
Ensure appropriate version control and management of design assets.
Establish quality-control standards for all consumer-facing creative work.