# Jennifer Palmer

> Graphic Design and Production

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jenniferpalmer

• CPG Packaging
• Brand Design - logos and cross category branding
• Project Management
• Team Management
• Concept Presentations
• Photo Art Direction, Pre-Pros and Retouching
• Vector Illustration
• Style Guides
• Production Mechanicals and Pre-press
• Signage
• Fast-paced Environment
• Adobe CC Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Expert
• Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Google Slides

## Work Experience
### Production and Comms Designer @ IDEO
Jan 2018 – Present

### Sr. Production Designer for Apple @ Hogarth Worldwide
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, CA
Print and digital production in a fast-paced, high-volume environment with acute attention to detail.

### Freelance Production and Design @ Swirl
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Production and Design for Microsoft. 

Prepared presentation decks for approvals and adapted mechanicals for final release for large-scale store signage, table signs, catalogs and relevant collateral. 

Concept design for Spring ad campaign.

### Associate Creative Director @ Sam's Club
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
Design management and lead creative for the major private label brands at Sam’s Club and Walmart. Lead on all other aspects—Client liaison, concept direction and presentation, design team management, photoshoot direction, unique illustration—down to the nuts and bolts like final retouching, mechanical production, pre-press and “Jill-of-all-trades” go-to for emergency last minute needs.

Creative lead for logos and re-brand of all Sam’s Club’s major Private Brands across all categories - Household,Food Service, Organics. Creative Lead on Brand Transition Style Guides and led implementation of all food packaging transition.

Creative lead for Farberware redesign for Walmart. Created all packaging for initial line of new Farberware home appliances.

Awards: 2 International Vertex Awards given for Sam’s Club consumables re-brand.

General:
• Brand Design - logos and cross category branding
• Project Management
• Team Management
• Concept Presentations
• Photo Art Direction, Pre-Pros and Retouching
• Style Guides
• Production Mechanicals and Pre-press
• Signage
• Fast-paced Environment
• Adobe CC Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Expert

### Senior Design Manager @ Walmart
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design management and lead creative for the major private label brands at Sam’s Club and Walmart. Lead on all other aspects—Client liason, concept direction and presentation, design team management, photoshoot direction, unique illustration—down to the nuts and bolts like final retouching, pre-press and “Jill-of-all-trades” go-to for emergency last minute needs.

Design Manager for Walmart private brands: Mainstays Kids, Mainstays Office, Canopy Home, Your Zone Teens, Backyard Grill and Super Tech Automotive. Created logo and packaging design for the brand launches of Mainstays Kids and Super Tech and led redesign of Canopy Home and Mainstays Office. 

Design support for Better Homes and Gardens redesign and Seasonal style guides.

Led design and execution of style guides and in-store signage for brands. Art direction of photo shoots - off-site and through web.

Manage and work with product developers, product suppliers, photography studios and internal teams (dot.com, brand directors, copy and production staff) to meet high volume and accelerated timeline demands.

For the initial 2 years with Walmart, I was Packaging Production Manager for private brands Canopy and Your Zone.

### Packaging Production Manager @ Walmart
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco Bay Area
Managed all aspects of packaging production for Walmart Private Brands. 
• Produced packaging mechanicals and pre-press for 1000's of seasonal home retail SKUs and managed deliverables for time-driven assets with a very tight timeline.
• Supplier liaison for packaging assets.
• Created Brand Style Guides
• Created all brand update and cross-category design system presentations
• Signage
• Website banners
• Project Management
• Team Management
• Photo Art Direction, Pre-Pros and Retouching
• Technical drawings and assembly instructions
• Fast-paced Environment
• Adobe CC Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Expert

### Freelance Production and Design @ Landor, Shaklee, Fagan-Welles
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
Clients: Hilton, Chevron, Nestlé, Embassy Suites, Equator Coffee, Blackstone Minerals

Production and design for corporate style guides, product catalogs and industry magazines.

### Golf Assistant @ Arnold Palmer Enterprises, Inc.
Jan 2002 – Jan 2005
Took some time off to pursue a professional golf career.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Illustration
Rhode Island School of Design


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jenniferleepalmer

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Last updated: 2026-04-13