Full-Time
Senior Director of Package Engineering & Package Innovation
Updated on 9/3/2026
Patrick Ta Beauty
51-200 employees
Luxury color cosmetics with cream-powder duos
Compensation Overview
$170k - $200k/yr
West Hollywood, CA, USA
Hybrid
Three days in the Los Angeles corporate office per week are required; domestic and international supplier travel is required.
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- 10+ years of progressive experience in packaging engineering, development, or innovation within cosmetics, beauty, or luxury consumer goods.
- Deep expertise in color cosmetics packaging, including color, eye, face, and lip categories, with an understanding of luxury packaging requirements.
- Proven mastery of complex tooling development and manufacturing processes for plastic, glass, metal, and specialty materials.
- Expertise in decoration processes including hot stamping, screen printing, electroplating, vacuum metallizing, specialty coatings, and premium finishes.
- A track record of leading long-horizon innovation projects and high-velocity day-to-day development.
- Established relationships with global packaging suppliers, particularly in China, Vietnam, South Korea, and Europe.
- Experience working directly with brand founders or senior creative leadership to translate vision into product reality.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally to supplier facilities.
- Lead innovation initiatives by identifying emerging packaging materials, formats, and finishes aligned with luxury positioning and sustainability ambitions.
- Build and maintain an innovation pipeline that anticipates category trends and strengthens the brand’s competitive position.
- Partner with founders to translate creative vision into manufacturable, market-ready packaging solutions.
- Promote curiosity and experimentation within the packaging function.
- Own the full packaging development lifecycle from concept and tooling through production and launch across color cosmetics and beauty categories.
- Manage complex tooling development, including injection-molded components, custom compacts, brushes, applicators, specialty closures, and soft goods.
- Oversee decoration development including hot stamping, UV printing, lacquering, electroplating, embossing, and other luxury surface treatments.
- Ensure packaging meets functional, aesthetic, and regulatory requirements across domestic and international markets.
- Drive development timelines to support the product launch calendar.
- Cultivate and manage a global network of strategic packaging suppliers.
- Negotiate with suppliers on tooling investment, lead times, capacity, and quality standards.
- Serve as the primary packaging liaison to Product Development, Creative, Operations, and Finance.
- Translate creative briefs into feasible packaging specifications with founders and internal stakeholders.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a packaging engineering team.
- Establish and refine internal packaging processes, workflows, and best practices.
- Build systems for tracking tooling assets, development status, and supplier performance across the SKU portfolio.
- Experience in a high-growth indie or luxury beauty brand environment.
Patrick Ta Beauty operates in the luxury color cosmetics market, selling high-quality makeup through its website and retailers like Sephora, CULT Beauty, and Flannels. The product line reflects Patrick Ta’s artistry, featuring dual-formula cream-powder designs that enable easy layering for a red-carpet glow. It differentiates itself through celebrity-driven artistry, a direct-to-consumer model paired with selective retail partnerships, and products that make professional techniques accessible at home. The brand’s goal is growth and product innovation, supported by a minority growth investment from Stride Consumer Partners to expand reach.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Burbank, California
Founded
2019
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- On January 14, 2026, Patrick Ta Beauty launched at Sephora Middle East.
- On September 1, 2026, it expanded Major Dimension with three new palettes.
- Kimberly Villatoro, CEO since March 2023, brings Smashbox and GLAMGLOW scale experience.
What critics are saying
- Sephora reportedly drives 70%-80% of revenue, creating brutal bargaining leverage in 2026.
- International rollout into Mexico and the Middle East risks inventory and localization mistakes.
- Celebrity-founder brands fade fast if Patrick Ta stops driving cultural relevance by 2027.
What makes Patrick Ta Beauty unique
- Patrick Ta Beauty owns a recognizable artist-led glow aesthetic rooted in Patrick Ta’s techniques.
- Its cream-plus-powder duos operationalize pro layering for mass prestige consumers.
- Sephora and Cult Beauty distribution gives immediate prestige credibility across key markets.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
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↑ 12%Patrick Ta Beauty debuts three new Major Dimension palettes. Cool Taupe, Warm Rose and Dream Date extend the Major Dimension collection with new shades and textures. September 1, 2026, 3:04 pm Patrick Ta Beauty expands its Major Dimension eye collection with three new six-pan eyeshadow palettes: Cool Taupe, Warm Rose and the limited-edition Dream Date. The release develops the brand's compact Artistry Edit format with new matte shades and, for Dream Date, a new shimmer formula created for a reflective finish with minimal fallout. Cool Taupe and Warm Rose join the Major Dimension Essential Artistry Edit Eyeshadow Palette range. Each palette contains six velvet mattes with a buttery texture and buildable color. Patrick Ta positions the formulas for layering, soft definition and stronger payoff depending on application. The two new options expand the existing Artistry Edit lineup, which also includes Light, Medium and Deep variations. Cool Taupe introduces the coolest tones currently offered within the collection. The color story moves from cool beige through deeper brown, giving the palette a neutral direction without shifting warm. The compact format keeps the focus on matte shades, making it suited to tonal eye looks or more defined sculpting around the lids. Warm Rose moves in another direction with mauve and burgundy tones. Patrick Ta describes the palette as soft and sultry, with six matte shades that extend the same velvet formula used throughout the Essential Artistry Edit line. The rose-based selection introduces a warmer, richer option within the range while retaining the same six-pan structure. The third release, Major Dimension Dream Date Eyeshadow Palette, changes the format by combining three mattes with three iridescent shimmers. Patrick Ta created a new shimmer formula for the limited-edition palette, bringing a pearlescent, light-catching finish into the Artistry Edit format for the first time. The palette uses silver chrome packaging, distinguishing it from the rose-gold compacts used for the permanent Essential Artistry Edit palettes. Dream Date contains six shades. Soulmate offers a nude shimmer, while Romantic introduces a warm mauve shimmer. Manifesting completes the reflective trio with a slate-grey shimmer. The matte side includes Intuition, a cool nude; Chemistry, a cool pink; and Interested, a warm taupe. Together, the shades move between muted neutrals, rose tones and darker grey. Patrick Ta designed Dream Date so the matte and shimmer formulas can work together within the same eye look. The mattes provide buildable color, while the three shimmers add a more luminous finish. The brand also offers sets pairing Dream Date with one of the Essential Artistry Edit palettes, allowing the matte color stories from Cool Taupe or Warm Rose to work alongside the reflective shades.
Patrick Ta Beauty launches at Sephora Middle East. THE WHAT? Patrick Ta Beauty is expanding into the Middle East through a new retail partnership with Sephora Middle East. THE DETAILS The celebrity makeup artist-founded brand will debut online via Sephora Middle East, followed by an in-store rollout across 34 Sephora locations in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. The launch includes a selection of the brand's core complexion and colour cosmetics range, including hero products from its blush and foundation categories. THE WHY? The expansion marks Patrick Ta Beauty's latest step in international growth as prestige makeup brands continue to target the Middle East's high-value beauty market. With strong consumer demand for artistry-led and glow-focused products across the region, the Sephora partnership provides a scalable route to build retail presence and brand visibility.
Sarah Medford, previously Senior Director, Brand Marketing at Hourglass Cosmetics, has been appointed Senior Director, Brand Development & Product Marketing at Patrick Ta Beauty.
/PRNewswire/ -- Stride Consumer Partners LLC ("Stride"), a growth-equity investment firm focused on passion brands in consumer products and services, announced...