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For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we'll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

Job Summary

We are seeking a visionary Principal Brand Designer to lead the development and execution of high-impact, brand-defining design work across channels and touchpoints.

This role is critical to elevating how our brand is experienced through campaigns, product launches, digital platforms, and corporate communications.

As a Principal Brand Designer, you'll serve as a creative leader, cross-functional partner, and hands-on designer who brings together business goals, audience insights, and bold visual storytelling. You'll help shape the future of our brand while mentoring others and championing design excellence across the organization.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Lead strategic design initiatives by driving the creative vision and execution of major brand moments, campaigns, product launches, executive communications, and storytelling through engaging multimedia content across digital and print platforms, including video, web, social media, and collateral.
Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders to translate business objectives into cohesive, compelling brand experiences that drive results.
Champion brand consistency by ensuring visual alignment across all touchpoints, digital, print, environmental, and experiential while maintaining and evolving brand standards, guidelines, and assets.
Provide creative direction and feedback to junior and mid-level designers. Contribute to a culture of excellence, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Education

Job Qualifications

Degree in Graphic Design, Multimedia Arts, Visual Communications, or a related field required.

Experience

8-10+ years of brand, visual, or communication design experience-preferably in-house at a global company.
Exceptional portfolio that demonstrates strategic thinking, design craft, and an ability to bring brand stories to life across formats.
Expertise in brand systems, typography, layout, print design, and design thinking.
Experience collaborating with creative teams, executives, and cross-functional partners.
Experience managing external vendors and agencies, with a strong track record in leading large-scale booth designs for trade shows and industry events, from concept through execution.

Other

Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator,) and other design tools.
Strong understanding of design principles and digital media trends.
Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate design concepts.
Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Experience with visual identity design, ensuring consistency across print, digital, and video media.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in corporate branding, advertising agencies, or digital marketing teams.
Proven ability to develop interactive multimedia storytelling experiences that drive audience engagement.
Understanding of visual storytelling, pacing, and editing techniques for corporate, commercial, and social media videos.

Workplace Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and work/type at a computer.
Ability to thrive in a remote environment, effectively balancing independent work with seamless collaboration.
Travel may be required for multimedia shoots, events, or team meetings.

Compensation Data

The pay range for this position is $96,000 - $105,000K USD annually. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

About Corporate Functions

The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.

About Charles River

Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients' clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client's unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people's lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

We're committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, family status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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