Retail Production Designer

Grüns is a nutrition company creating convenient gummy supplements made from whole-food ingredients. The Retail Production Designer will manage technical production for retail and packaging, adapting approved designs into accurate, print-ready files while coordinating with vendors and cross-functional teams. The role will also build production systems and quality checks to ensure brand consistency and prevent print issues.

Responsibilities:

• Own technical production for retail and packaging: dielines, print-ready files, and vendor specs
• Adapt approved retail concepts across formats, retailers, and sizes, and catch layout issues before they go to print
• Build and maintain a production system (templates, specs, file organization) that keeps retail assets moving fast and accurate as we add new retailers
• Become our go to person with print vendors about materials, tolerances, and print methods, and become their go-to person
• Be the go-to resource for cross-functional partners on print production, resolving technical questions and driving projects forward
• Provide backup production support for retail and DTC packaging
• Build quality checks that catch problems before they reach shelves

Requirements:

• Has 3+ years as a production artist in packaging, print, retail, visual merchandising, or something similar
• Strong expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
• Has managed high-volume production across multiple SKUs, formats, retailers, and versions without missing a detail
• Communicates clearly with designers, vendors, printers, and internal teams
• Has a good eye for spacing, typography, and hierarchy, with room to grow
• Exceptional proofreading skills and an eagle-eye focus on picking up minor alignment, copy, or structural discrepancies
• An understanding of color management techniques to maintain color consistency during print production
• Figma and 3D rendering tools (like sketchup) are a plus
• Bonus points if you've worked with print vendors or know flexo, digital, offset, or litho printing