Art Director

Location

Carlsbad, CA

Job Type

Full-time hybrid: 4 days on site, and 1 day remote.

About Us

With each day comes a new opportunity to soak in the world around you. Hemlock is a San Diego-based headwear brand made to create connection: to the world, to the present, and to the soul. Hemlock provides premium style and shade for everyone, with unisex collections to elevate any day, any outing. Through a deep commitment to craftsmanship, superior quality, and endless exploration, Hemlock inspires stylish self-expression in everyday moments.

About the Position

Hemlock is looking for an Art Director who will play a vital role on the leadership team. This position will report directly to the CEO and help develop and execute the company’s creative vision that brings Hemlock’s story to life. This person will work closely with our marketing team to ensure that all the visual and creative content aligns with our overall marketing strategy.

Big picture items will be focused on creative and visual direction, creating processes, as well as management and oversight of the creative team. This position is responsible for creative materials that support the finished product, brand ethos & strategy and drive overall brand awareness.

The day to day will involve conceptualizing and executing compelling on-brand content. This will include all creative form of medias, social content, website visuals, product packaging, B2B assets and creative email campaign direction.

What We Are Looking For

The ideal candidate has a passion for design and brand vision with the technical chops to turn their ideas into reality. This person can conceptualize and execute on creative and visual content to help drive our brand message and products to the next level.

Equally important to the creative aspect is the interpersonal aspect. This position will need to effectively manage the internal creative team as well as supervise and work with outside creatives: photographers, videographers, models, graphic designers and hair and make-up artists. Being able to clearly communicate their objectives, visual direction for creative concepts and shoots, and meet tight deadlines all while adhering to the brand guidelines is a must.

This person needs to be comfortable with ambiguity and figuring out the best possible path towards our goal. To start, this role will not have a direct report but will be responsible for building a team as the organization grows. We need someone who is not afraid to “get their hands dirty” and help with the day-to-day work, even if it is a little outside the scope of the Art Director’s responsibility.

Overall, we are looking for a specific type of person who has the capability to balance creative work, technical skills, project and people management, and most importantly aligns with our culture and shares our values.

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of design and creative work experience
• 3+ plus years of direct management experience, including hiring and recruiting talent
• Be able to understand the brand ethos and conceptualize and execute on creative and visual content
• Knowledge of the fashion/apparel industry is a plus
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite
• Be able to understand a company’s goals and create a visual strategy to help achieve their objectives
• Project management and meet deadlines across multiple projects
• Eager to learn and continuously develop their professional skillset

Compensation

Salaried: $100,000 – $120,000. Full Time, Exempt

Additional

• Paid Time Off
• Healthcare Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental
• Free headwear, swag and friends and family discount
• Team events and so much more!

Who We Are

Purpose

To inspire people to seek out meaningful connections.

Core Values

These are the guide for everything we do.

01. Connection: at the heart of everything we do is a deep respect for the power of connection

02. Craftsmanship: we’re inspired by the joy, creativity, and artisanship it takes to craft beautiful, long-lasting headwear

03. Commitment: we hold ourselves to the highest standards when it comes to our products and our customer experience

04. Optimism: we approach our work, and life, with an infinite sense of optimism that allows us to weather any storms and focus on the inevitable brighter days ahead

Next Steps

If this job description sounds like something you have the passion and capability to do, send us your resume. If your resume stands out, we will set up a phone call. From there we will do two in-person interviews and then present an offer letter to the ideal candidate. Simple as that!

Hemlock Hat Company