Senior Designer

Summary

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.
 

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
   

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
   

About Us

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.

Chobani uses food as a force for good in the world – putting humanity first in everything it does. The company’s philanthropic efforts prioritize giving back to its communities and beyond: working to eradicate child hunger, supporting immigrants, refugees and underrepresented people, honoring veterans, and protecting the planet. Chobani manufactures its products in New York, Idaho, Michigan and Australia, and its products are available throughout North America and distributed in Australia and other select markets.

For more information, please visit www.chobani.com and www.lacolombe.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Chobani is an equal opportunity employer. Chobani will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on any basis including, but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, military and/or veteran status, marital status, predisposing genetic characteristics and genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws.

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