Brand Experience Designer

Welcome to Unilever Personal Care! Unilever Personal Care is the home of outstanding brands, such as Dove, Dove Men, Rexona, and Pepsodent which deliver personal hygiene, self-care, and confidence to billions of people. Through our brands, we’re taking action to drive positive change. With more than 1 billion people using our products every day, we have an opportunity to use our scale and brands for good so that people and planet can thrive together.

Why join Personal Care Design? We are a group of ambitious and visionary design leaders residing in our Marketing organization responsible for transforming the creative culture of Personal Care projects and people by promoting and implementing best practices in creative problem-solving processes, tools, and techniques. Joining Personal Care Design means working within a small-but-mighty, dedicated design team on the development of high-impact brand innovation. We foster an agile and open-minded environment with strong and passionate design thinkers and doers who are constantly seeking to elevate purpose in terms of brand, people, sustainability, technology & business growth.

What you’ll be doing as a Brand Experience Designer:

✨ Guide teams through the exciting early stages of innovation using design thinking magic Team up with top-tier agencies to dream beyond packaging and into the future of holistic brand experience Partner with brand leaders to unlock new value and spark business growth Champion design consistency across every touchpoint, from concept to consumer Collaborate with insights pros to ensure every design prototype hits the sweet spot of consumer desire and business need Shape creative frameworks to enable brilliant creative decision-making Dive into semiotics to spot what’s next before it’s cool and leverage it to craft stellar design briefs Dazzle with visual storytelling that makes your concepts shine Participate in workshops that unlock strategy and spark innovation ️ Prototype (scrappily) early, often, and boldly—because great ideas deserve to be tested Experiment with new tools and tech to keep our design ecosystem cutting-edge Who you are:

You thrive on crafting compelling narratives through design, with an eye for stunning aesthetics and desirable experiences. You are a natural-born storyteller, with a true gift for translating those stories into innovative product ideas. You have a passion for outstanding user experience at all touchpoints, and you use creativity, empathy, and a diverse breadth of tools and methodologies to help define what that end-to-end experience looks like. You care deeply about designs that strike the balance of beautiful and feasible. You communicate clearly and have a collaborative spirit. You are entrepreneurial at heart.

You are a design thinker AND doer, a self-starter with a growth mindset in relation to your own personal development. About your skills and capabilities: You will have worked in a similar role for 1-3+ years, with a range of brand design experience in a corporate, consultancy or agency environment. Ideally, you hold a degree within the area of design, marketing, branding or innovation. You have strong communication and visualization skills, especially in the area of early concepting.

You also have a brilliant knack for translating technical ideas to non-technical audiences, and a strong ability to distill consumer insights into opportunity areas for design. You have a keen eye for detail and impeccable crafting skills, but equally important to us is a designer who can confidently express their ideas through words. Presenting and discussing work within the design team, as well as with stakeholders and external creative partners, is a *fundamental* requirement of this role.

In terms of hard design skills, you are a whiz in Adobe Creative Suite with a passion for graphic design ideation, mockups, and refinement. You have working knowledge with 3D modeling and rendering software. You have awareness of common packaging materials, their manufacturing processes, and their design and sustainability implications. You have a passion to learn, collaborate, and challenge yourself to grow as a designer. POTENTIAL NEXT STEPS: We invest in opportunities for development and personal growth for our employees and enable a working culture that embraces diversity.

Depending on your own development, you will have the chance to evolve further in Personal Care Design. APPLICATION DETAILS: Please send us a great reason why you would be a matching candidate for us, your resume and a portfolio or comprehensive outline of your previous responsibilities in Product Experience Design. BENEFITS: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan.

Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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