Job Description
- Lead the creative department. Design excellent work, coach and mentor your team, and partner with marketing to bring new projects to life
- Manage creative execution all aspects of product packaging, including but not limited to, conception, photography, copy, compliance and regulations.
- Analyze current creative team and workloads to build in efficiencies, evaluate strengths and weaknesses and build a team structure that can accomplish objectives within needed timeframes.
- Assure KONG brand language is clearly defined, plainly communicated and consistently applied in all types of printed/graphic materials, both internally and consumer/customer facing, across all mediums
- Oversee special brand projects from ideation to completion. Facilitate concepting, creativity, and execution.
- Create outstanding deliverables across multiple media and platforms including the retail environment, social media, packaging design, trade show design, photo, and video.
- Cultivate a healthy, encouraging and creative team culture that represents a Great Place to Work, by meeting with each team member on a regular basis, establishing measurable goals and objectives and coaching/directing toward accomplishment of those goals.
- Empower subordinates creatively and professionally and develop the talent you are entrusted with.
- Steward and maintain the KONG brand throughout the globe
- Set the bar for quality of work. You are responsible for work that represents a brand known for durability, quality, and trust.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in creative leadership in consumer-packaged goods. Emphasis in retail packaging essential.
- You have an award-winning and compelling portfolio, with distinctive work that elevates a brand’s creative experience, and excites people to learn from and work with you.
- You are willing to be hands-on with key projects, all the while being able to both mentor and manage.
- You are experienced in a wide variety of media including, retail, print, social, video, and packaging
- You are up to date on current trends and consumer expectations related to design and know how and when to translate that to a legacy brand
- You are a proven leader with a passion for coaching and developing a creative team to reach their full potential
- Multicultural design experience at a global company and experience in regulatory issues pertaining to consumer products is a plus.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with the job.
Compensation
- From $100,000 annually
- Quarterly profit sharing
Work Location
- KONG Headquarters – Golden, Colorado
- Onsite Monday through Friday
Benefits
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance with low-cost premiums
- Access to voluntary benefits
- Employer paid short-term/long term disability and life insurance
- 401k with employer matching
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Personal Leave Accrual
- Pet Insurance, Tuition reimbursement, dog toys, and more!
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