Graphic Designer - Beauty, Skincare, Visual Merchandising

Graphic Designer - Beauty, Skincare, Visual Merchandising

New York, NY

Location: Fully Remote
Type: Freelance / Ongoing Ad Hoc Support
Duration: Ongoing, up to 10 hours a week

$40 - $45 /hr

Our client, an emerging New York-based skincare brand, is seeking a talented Graphic Designer with strong trade marketing and visual merchandising experience to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with a fast-growing beauty brand and bring creative retail concepts to life.

Key Responsibilities

• Design visually compelling retail displays, signage, and layouts that elevate brand presence in-store.
• Develop planograms and merchandising solutions for beauty retail environments, ensuring engaging and attractive product presentation.
• Create marketing assets for trade initiatives, supporting brand visibility across retail partners.
• Collaborate with internal teams to maintain brand consistency across all visual touchpoints.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Graphic Designer within the beauty/skincare industry; familiarity with Ulta merchandising standards is highly preferred.
• Strong background in visual merchandising, including signage, displays, and planogram creation.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and other design tools.
• Ability to work independently and deliver high-quality designs on tight timelines.

Portfolio Requirement

Applicants must provide a portfolio showcasing planogram development and retail display design, ideally including examples of in-store display redesigns.

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.

EEO Employer

Creative Circle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.

About Creative Circle

Creative Circle matches creative and marketing professionals with hiring managers looking for talent. The above listing is for a position with one of our clients. If you’re a good fit for this role or another we’re currently working on, a recruiter will reach out to you directly. We only contact the applicants who are the best fit for the position, so if you do not hear back, please take a look at the other roles we have available. Thank you for your interest!