Graphic Designer (Contract)

Company Overview

Since 1946, Parfums Christian Dior has exemplified excellence, creativity, and the distinctive artistry of its founder, Christian Dior. Renowned for redefining French elegance and luxury through perfumes and innovating in makeup and skincare, the brand continually reinvents its style to celebrate beauty and joy. As part of the LVMH Group, the company invites you to join its North America team in New York.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Graphic Designer on a contract basis to support various digital platforms. The ideal candidate will possess outstanding conceptual skills, expert typography and layout abilities, and an eye for refined aesthetics suited to high-end beauty branding. Responsibilities include creating and adjusting digital assets for retailer.com partners, brand websites, and performance-driven digital campaigns, along with advanced retouching and maintaining exceptional production quality.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Develop on-brand creative designs for digital, print, and retail channels that conform to luxury standards and brand guidelines.
• Convert campaign ideas into visually polished work across diverse formats and platforms.
• Ensure excellence in typography, composition, color schemes, and visual stories tailored to a luxury beauty audience.
• Produce and resize assets for retailer.com environments including homepage banners, product detail pages, brand shops, emails, promotional tiles, and seasonal events.
• Adapt designs to retailer specs and templates, maintaining brand authenticity.
• Coordinate with marketing and e-commerce teams to align creative assets with launch schedules and promotions.
• Execute advanced retouching of product and model images, including color correction, cleanup, compositing, texture-sensitive edits, packaging refinements, and product substitution.
• Prepare images for diverse platforms with appropriate color profiles, resolutions, and formats to ensure accurate color portrayal and a premium finish.
• Create assets for paid media campaigns (static and lightweight motion designs), organic social media, emails, and website updates.
• Resize video content optimized for social platforms.
• Develop modular design systems for scalable and adaptable placements across multiple aspect ratios.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine creatives based on performance feedback while upholding luxury brand standards.
• Prepare production-ready files with meticulous attention to bleeds, safe zones, dielines, packaging limits, and preflight validations.
• Handle multiple projects efficiently, ensuring deadlines are met and working files stay well organized.
• Maintain and contribute to brand templates, toolkits, and guidelines.
• Work closely with Creative, Marketing, E-commerce, Product Marketing teams, and external collaborators to deliver unified creative solutions.
• Communicate clearly regarding timelines, specifications, and production needs, proactively identifying risks and suggesting solutions.

Qualifications and Experience

• 3 to 6 years in professional graphic design roles, preferably within luxury beauty, fashion, skincare, fragrance, or premium consumer companies.
• Proven experience creating assets for retailer.com platforms and major retail partners.
• A robust portfolio demonstrating sophisticated design, campaign adaptation, and digital execution.

Preferred Competencies

• Knowledge of luxury beauty retail environments such as brand shops, product page optimization, and retailer templates/specifications.
• Familiarity with Digital Asset Management systems and structured file naming/version control.
• Awareness of accessibility standards and best practices in digital design.

Core Design Skills Required

• Advanced understanding of design principles: typography, layouts, grids, hierarchy, composition, and color theory.
• Ability to conceptualize and effectively translate brand strategies into compelling visual designs.
• Meticulous attention to detail and precision in production quality.
• Versatility in design across web, social media, email, retail, print, out-of-home, and packaging contexts.

Retouching and Imaging Expertise

• Proficiency in Photoshop workflows including non-destructive editing, masking, compositing, and color correction to complete assets from raw visuals to final forms.
• Skill in elevating product photography to luxury standards while preserving realism and brand consistency.

Technical Tools

• Expert level use of Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
• Experience with Figma for digital layout, team collaboration, and handoff.
• Knowledge of file preparation for digital and print – covering color profiles, resolution, and export standards.

Soft Skills

• Effective time management and prioritization in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Clear and confident communication, with openness to feedback.
• Collaborative and proactive problem-solving approach.
• Basic motion graphics or video skills (After Effects, Premiere, or equivalent) to create simple animations.

Additional Information

This job description outlines primary responsibilities and is not exhaustive. Tasks and duties may evolve or be added without prior notice. All applicant information is treated confidentially per EEO guidelines. Salary ranges from $30 to $40 per hour serve as guidance, with flexibility based on expertise, performance, and seniority. The employer reserves the right to pay outside this band.