About RANAVAT
RANAVAT is a luxury Ayurvedic beauty brand rooted in tradition and elevated through innovation. Our mission is to bring the transformative power of Indian beauty rituals to a global audience while maintaining an unwavering commitment to quality and authenticity.
As part of our team, you will play a critical role in shaping the visual identity of a rapidly growing brand that inspires self-care and celebrates culture.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented Senior Design Manager to join our creative team. This position is instrumental in ensuring the brand’s visual language is consistently represented across all touch points. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop compelling designs that elevate the customer experience and drive brand growth.
This is a full time role with in-office work from Monday to Thursday and work from home on Fridays.
You must be reside within 20 miles from Westwood, CA (near UCLA campus).
Key Responsibilities:
Brand Identity Management:
- Ensure all designs align with RANAVAT’s brand aesthetic and ethos, maintaining consistency across platforms and materials.
- Oversee the creation of all visual content, ensuring alignment with RANAVAT’s brand identity and marketing goals
Creative Direction:
- Lead or assist in conceptualizing and executing creative strategies for campaigns, product launches, and marketing initiatives.
- Create mood boards and shot lists for photo and video shoots.
Content Creation:
- Design assets for social media, email marketing, website updates, packaging, and print materials.
Collaboration:
- Collaborate with CEO on finalizing designs for E-Commerce and Retailers.
- Serve as primary contact with creative vendors/freelancers domestically and internationally.
- Communicate regularly with vendors/freelancers on ongoing projects such as launch, retouching, and photo/video shoots.
- Lead and manage graphic designers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support.
- Partner with marketing, e-commerce, and product teams to align project goals, timelines, and deliverables.
- Review and approve all design work, maintaining high standards of quality and creativity.
Project Management:
- Organize, prioritize, and execute multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines are met.
- Asset distribution: Cropping of campaign assets, mocking up web banner suites, optimizing for social media, retailer product pages and other placements: both static and animated.
- Strategizing and communicating closely with internal DTC partners to create new or redesign existing collateral to bring it up to standard.
- Updating packaging or printed collateral.
Trend Awareness:
- Stay informed about industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging design techniques to keep RANAVAT ahead of the curve.
Qualifications
Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in design, preferably in the beauty, luxury, or lifestyle industries.
- Strong in graphic design.
- Work experience within an agency or in-house Creative team.
- Has vision to evolve brand/ creative identity. Can establish new templates, digital concepts, etc.
- Can support on design, creative direction, shoots/ production, retouching/ editing.
- Experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating creativity and technical skills.
- Experience in design for Digital and Print – including but not limited to: social, email, web, SMS, in-store retailer POS, promotional collateral, packaging, invites etc.
- Experience with responsive Web Design and Motion Graphics.
- Video editing, text animation and gif creation abilities.
- 3D design experience a plus.
