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Senior Product Graphic Designer – Licensed Merchandise

Desert Cactus 🇺🇸 Rolling Meadows, IL 60008, United States of America

Full-time Senior

Develop and lead designs for licensed merchandise across product categories, taking concepts through licensor approval and production-ready file delivery while meeting deadlines. Mentor product graphic designers, improve design workflows, research market trends, and collaborate with product development, merchandising, marketing, and sales teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead designs for licensed merchandise across product categories, taking concepts through licensor approval and production-ready file delivery while meeting deadlines. Mentor product graphic designers, improve design workflows, research market trends, and collaborate with product development, merchandising, marketing, and sales teams.

Requirements

  • Requires 3–5 years of professional graphic design experience, a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field, and a portfolio demonstrating product, print, and digital design. Candidates should have expert Adobe Creative Suite skills, print production and licensing-guideline knowledge, strong communication and organizational abilities, and preferably sports or collegiate licensing experience.

Benefits

  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Profit Sharing
  • Defined Benefit Plan
  • Paid Time Off
  • Public Holidays
  • Maternity Leave
  • Paternity Leave

Key Skills

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Creative Suite Print production Licensing guidelines Product design Graphic design Portfolio development Mentoring Design workflow optimization Market trend research Cross‑functional collaboration Communication Organizational skills Sports licensing knowledge College licensing knowledge Attention to detail Time management Problem solving

About Desert Cactus

Desert Cactus is an e-commerce licensed products company (founded 2012) offering merchandise for the NBA, NHL, 700+ colleges, Hasbro, Gumby, Pan Am, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, the Department of Defense, fraternities, sororities and other organizations.

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