Director, Brand Design Hill's

Overview

Established in 1806 as a small soap and candle business in New York City, Colgate-Palmolive is now a truly global company with products sold in over 200 countries and territories under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, elmex, Tom's of Maine, Sanex, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, Haci Sakir, Suavitel, PCA SKIN, EltaMD, Filorga and Hello as well as Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescription Diet.

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses – Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programs that enrich communities around the world.

Every day millions of people trust our products to care for themselves and the ones they love. Our goal is to use our technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live.

A career at Colgate-Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.

Job Title:

Director, Brand Design Hill's

Travel Required?:
Travel - up to 10% of time

Posting

Start Date:

1/13/26

Hybrid

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
Job Number#171195 - Overland Park, Kansas, United States

As an innovative and strategic design leader, you possess extensive experience in the discovery, development, and delivery of both online and offline brand experiences. You excel in navigating complex internal and external challenges and can effectively collaborate within a global enterprise. Your role requires you to define and lead pioneering design and brand initiatives, with a strong focus on innovation and experiential design, that surpass business objectives across 2D and 3D packaging, digital platforms, retail environments, and e-commerce, setting new industry benchmarks for pet nutrition brands.

• Design & Experience Leadership:
  Lead the Hill’s design team in delivering excellence in strategic brand-design experiences, focusing on packaging design systems, execution, and sustained activation for Global and Divisional brands.
• Strategic Innovation & Future Vision:
  Drive the entire design process from blue-sky innovation to delivery, ensuring that high-level disruptive creative concepts are successfully translated into final, market-ready assets and scalable future platforms, while actively scouting and integrating emerging design trends and technologies to fuel brand growth.
• End-to-End Execution:
  Ensure that high-level creative concepts are successfully translated into final, market-ready assets, covering the full design lifecycle from concepting to production and delivery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Design Thinking:
  Partner closely with the Hill’s global brand marketing team to align design strategy with overall brand guidelines while adapting to local market needs, championing Design Thinking methodologies to solve complex business challenges.
• Team Development & Creative Culture:
  Mentor and grow the design team through hiring, training, and performance management, fostering a culture of fearless experimentation, rapid prototyping, and continuous design evolution.
• Agency Partnership & Design Excellence:
  Drive design excellence standards with internal and external agency partners, spanning packaging, brand experience, and activation, challenging partners to co-create groundbreaking brand expressions and user-centric solutions.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree in Design or a related creative field.
• Experience:
  
  15+ years of professional design experience, primarily within the Consumer Product Goods (CPG) sector on Global brands, with a demonstrable portfolio showcasing design-led innovation and measurable business impact.
• Technical Expertise & System Thinking:
  Proven "hands-on" packaging design skills with a deep understanding of great brand design systems, including brand equity,…