Chobani is Hiring a Senior Designer (NYC)
Chobani Creative is a team of designers, writers, producers and makers who use world-class creativity and craft to fight for happily ever after. As a Senior Designer at Chobani, you will join a team that is responsible for how the Chobani brand is brought to life visually. You will help determine the overall style and tone of the brand across our packaging, digital, marketing communications and campaigns. We aspire to do work that is experimental and unexpected but powerful. In your role as a Senior Designer, quantity and quality equally matter. This means your core responsibility is to be a geyser or provocative ideas, expertly crafted.
Compensation Range: $92,800.00 - $139,200.00, plus bonus.
About the company
Chobani is a food maker with a mission of making high-quality and nutritious food accessible to more people, while elevating our communities and making the world a healthier place. In short: making good food for all. In support of this mission, Chobani is a purpose-driven, people-first, food-and-wellness-focused company, and has been since its founding in 2005 by Hamdi Ulukaya, an immigrant to the U.S. The Company manufactures yogurt, oat milk, and creamers – Chobani yogurt is America's No.1 yogurt brand, made with natural ingredients without artificial preservatives. Following the 2023 acquisition of La Colombe, a leading coffee roaster with a shared commitment to quality, craftmanship and impact, the Company began selling cold-pressed espresso and lattes on tap at 32 cafes, as well as Ready to Drink (RTD) coffee beverages at retail.
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of design experience and bachelor’s degree or 7+ years of design experience and certification or equivalent
Experience in ad agency/in house or marketing services preferred
Expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. 3D skills a plus
Ambitious and eager to work at a larger scale without sacrificing craftsmanship or beauty
Proficient knowledge of standard design tools
Concept and idea-driven, whether that is starting with an original concept or retrofitting an existing one
Self-propelled and not waiting for instruction
Outspoken about your ideas while being able to accept internal and cross functional critique
Thrives in ambiguity and large amounts of autonomy
Craft obsessed
RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensure all work is strategically sound, conceptually inspiring and creatively powerful
Be a hands-on design expert, shaping the concept and seeing it through implementation
Reinforce Chobani’s visual identity system and photography style and implement it into all design work, ranging from packaging to digital properties
Collaborate with Integrated Production to ensure executional excellence
Generate ideas; articulating and defending your point of view with the larger team
Participate in dialogue about the work, encouraging debate
Elevate the imaginations, design references, and craftsmanship of the Brand Design team
You are a systems thinker with the ability to craft pixel-perfect dynamic solutions for packaging, brand identity and web
Bring product innovation brand identities to life from concept through to market
Build flexible design systems that allow the company to produce hardworking assets quickly and beautifully, thus, allowing the Brand Design team to focus their energies on more expansive and exciting creative opportunities
Occasionally oversee and mentor entry level Designers on small to medium sized projects
Rational understanding of how design solves for business objectives
A foundational understanding of print processes
Be open to learning new processes and tools for creation
Generate content quickly and perfectly making sure to stick to deadlines
Collaborate with team members on various projects
