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Blue Bottle Coffee is seeking a Senior Designer to lead design across all brand touchpoints—digital, print, merchandise, and physical experiences. You will develop visual concepts and systems for integrated campaigns, product launches, and seasonal initiatives. Your work will span packaging design, eCommerce and digital assets (email, social, paid media), physical brand expressions (café signage, menus, environmental graphics, collateral, wayfinding, CPG), and branded products. You'll translate creative concepts across scale and context—from social assets to packages, café windows, and physical activations—while maintaining conceptual strength and craft.
Key responsibilities include: leading projects from concept through execution and production; prototyping ideas in 2D and 3D to explore and refine concepts; partnering with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Product, Café, Digital) to understand business needs and deliver creative solutions; presenting concepts and design rationale persuasively to stakeholders; guiding and providing feedback to full-time and freelance designers; collaborating with vendors and production partners on materials, fabrication, printing, and packaging; contributing to the evolution of Blue Bottle's brand standards and design guidelines; and staying curious about culture, design, technology, and emerging creative mediums.
You are a multidisciplinary designer energized by moving between mediums rather than specializing in one. You are a conceptual thinker who develops strong creative ideas and translates them into cohesive visual systems. You care equally about the big picture and smallest details, are flexible with changing priorities, and comfortable navigating ambiguity. You move between projects, scales, and mediums while maintaining consistency and quality. You work well under creative direction while bringing independent thinking, are fast and generative in exploring multiple directions, and manage competing deadlines proactively. You are solutions-oriented, collaborative, a strong communicator (verbal, visual, written), comfortable giving and receiving feedback, highly organized, and deeply curious about culture, art, design, fashion, food, hospitality, and the world.
**Requirements:**
- 8+ years of professional design experience in an agency, in-house creative team, studio, or similarly multidisciplinary environment
- Portfolio demonstrating exceptional conceptual thinking and versatility across multiple mediums (digital, print, packaging, product, physical brand experiences)
- Experience leading integrated projects or campaigns from concept through production and execution across multiple channels
- Experience leading, mentoring, or directly managing designers and creative collaborators
- Strong experience in print and packaging design, including press-ready files and overseeing production and press checks
- Strong understanding of digital design across eCommerce, email, social media, and other digital platforms
- Experience designing within established brand systems while knowing when and how to thoughtfully evolve them
- Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Figma, and Google Workspace
- Strong knowledge of typography and exceptional eye for composition, hierarchy, image-making, and detail
- Experience working with vendors, fabricators, printers, or production partners to bring physical creative ideas to life
