Design Director

The role

The Design Director will lead the day-to-day design discipline within the Creative Studio. This person will guide and develop the design team and ensure the brand identity is expressed across all consumer touchpoints.

What you will do

• Translate the ButcherBox creative vision and new brand identity into scalable design systems.
• Guide design development across integrated campaigns, digital, social, video, and print.
• Extend central brand and campaign ideas across consumer touchpoints.
• Lead the application of the brand across packaging, product labels, and retail.
• Shape photography and visual storytelling across food, product, lifestyle, and farms.
• Develop creative treatments and provide art direction on set.
• Provide direction as work moves from exploration through final execution.
• Manage, mentor, and develop designers across experience levels.
• Build a collaborative critique culture.
• Collaborate with copy, video, production, marketing, growth, product, and external agencies.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in brand design, art direction, or a related creative discipline.
• Substantial experience within a leading branding, design, or creative agency.
• Experience building or evolving distinctive consumer brands.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional taste, conceptual thinking, brand-building, and meaningful personal contribution.
• Ability to translate a central brand idea across various consumer touchpoints.
• Meaningful packaging experience and understanding of retail environments.
• Experience developing photography concepts and providing art direction.
• Experience formally leading, managing, or mentoring a team of designers.
• Ability to draw outstanding work from team members.
• Strong knowledge of typography, composition, image-making, identity systems, packaging, and production.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and fluency with contemporary design tools and workflows.
• Exceptional written, verbal, visual, and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Additional in-house consumer-brand experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience within food, beverage, wellness, retail, or another consumer-focused category is ideal.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Employer-funded HSA
• Short & long-term disability benefits
• 401(k) with generous employer match
• Annual bonus based on company performance
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• 20 weeks parental leave
• Annual Learning & Development stipend
• Access to personal and professional coaching solutions through BetterUp
• A free Custom Classic ButcherBox each month
• Weekly lunch reimbursement
• Reimbursement for wellness activities

About the company

ButcherBox is a certified B Corp headquartered in Boston that delivers grass-fed beef, organic chicken, pork, and wild-caught seafood directly to members. The team is made up of people who collaborate and support one another to build a world that is better for all.