Design Director
We are hiring an experienced Design Director to lead brand development, package design and digital experience.
About Bartlett Brands
We are an award-winning innovation agency that creates brands that challenge the status and cut through the quo with smart strategies, stylish storytelling and sustainable design.
This is you if…
- You love building innovative direct-to-consumer brands from the ground up
- You are self-motivated, self-directing and ambitious (we are a boutique studio—and your mama doesn’t work here).
- You understand what it takes to bring brands and products to life in a range of budgets and organization styles.
- You are knowledgeable in the categories we specialize in:
DTC brands in wellness, beauty, femcare, personal care, food & beverage, lifestyle - You are obsessively detail-oriented
- You are passionate about sustainability
- You like working with badass bitches (our team and clients are 90% boss women)
- You want to do cool shit that makes a difference
Responsibilities
- Engaging with clients and internal team to build brands from conception to launch
- Partnering with the Creative Director to establish distinctive and visually ownable conceptual brand territories
- Developing brand concepts across all touchpoints including identity systems, package design, web design, photo/video asset development, digital marketing for launch
- Presenting concepts and designs to clients, confidently, continuously and kindly pushing back to keep them from going rogue
- Translating client feedback, briefing designers
- Managing client, third party and vendor communication through some parts of creative execution in collaboration with our Director of Creative Services & Production
- Ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery in line with SOWs
- Multi-tasking and navigating a fast-paced environment
- Contributing to thought-leadership projects that support our purpose-driven agency initiatives specifically in sustainability, female empowerment and the amplification of BIPOC founders
Skills
- 10 years of experience with a design background
- 2+ years of experience in an Art or Design Director role (associate or higher)
- Experience in branding and marketing for personal care, wellness, food and beverage categories
- Experience in developing custom package designs
- Knowledgable about sustainable design practices
- Strong understanding of all aspects of the DTC CPG project workflow
- Experience in developing marketing campaigns in a digitally native world
- Experience in marketing asset creation (photography/video art direction, management and implementation)
- Excellent client-facing presentation skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud apps, Figma or Sketch, Google Suite
- Basic knowledge of web, email and social CMS platforms
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Health Insurance & HSA
- 401k with matching
- 3 weeks paid vacation & US holidays
- Optional 4-day work week (because we know what it’s like to be the boss of your family too)
- Innovative projects and amazing clients
- Badass team of women who treat each other like family