Have a pet named "Pixel"?
Is your bathroom filled with product boxes because you can't stomach throwing away great packaging...?
Or do you general have a passion for design and hold your design esthetic to a higher standard...
Then keep reading.
About the role
We're looking for a Creative Director to lead and elevate the creative vision of the ~Pourri portfolio. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for shaping how our brands show up across every customer touchpoint, from packaging and product launches to digital campaigns, retail experiences, social content, and emerging brands within our incubator.
You'll partner closely with executive leadership to define creative strategy, build memorable brand experiences, and ensure every piece of work reflects the bold, disruptive personality that has made ~Pourri a category-defining brand. This role requires both strategic thinking and hands-on creative leadership. You'll guide designers, creators, agencies, and cross-functional partners while building the processes and systems needed to scale creative excellence across the organization.
The ideal candidate is equal parts brand visionary, creative operator, and people leader. You have exceptional taste, high standards, and an obsession with great design. You know how to inspire teams, challenge convention, and turn ambitious ideas into impactful work that drives business results. Most importantly, you're excited by the opportunity to build what's next, not just maintain what's already been created.
What Success Looks Like
- Elevate and evolve the ~Pourri portfolio while maintaining a cohesive and distinctive brand presence across all consumer touchpoints.
- Build and develop a high-performing creative team capable of delivering exceptional work at scale.
- Create efficient creative processes that improve collaboration, speed, and quality across the organization.
- Partner with leadership to launch impactful campaigns, products, and new brands.
- Ensure creative work consistently supports business goals while pushing creative boundaries.
- Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and creative excellence.
Role and Responsibilities
- Own the overarching creative vision for Pourri and translate it into cohesive, high impact work across web, digital, print, packaging, retail, and social.
- Partner with leadership to define creative direction and concepts for campaigns, product launches, and new business proposals.
- Own and manage the creative budget responsibly and proactively and distribution of budgets across creative projects.
- Work to build integrated project management processes to align creative teams with other project stakeholders and internal teams, as well as external clients.
- Coordinate with leadership on creative visions of company projects to develop project roadmaps, design processes, and present visions and paths to execution.
- Collaborate with leadership to build and manage company processes ensuring project profitability through time and scope of projects based on your team members working on them.
- Oversee creative approval management & process for the creative department on all print projects, digital asset creation, etc... to ensure regulatory, spelling, and all items are correct and briefs are met.
- Collaborate in management of agency and freelance creative partners as needed to ensure projects stay on time and on track with visions.
- Guide and lead the Creative team to ensure project dates and expectations are met and processes are developed to ensure reasonable timelines are kept for both sides.
- Work with leadership to build creative directions for brands created by the incubator to build brand identities, design systems, media blueprints, etc...
- Work with leadership to establish creative directions for campaign and product proposals and projects.
- Work with head of development to create project outlines and tasks for projects to keep items on track for deadline.
- Lead creation of creative assets for use across marketing, ui/ux, packaging.. Etc...
- Collaborate with the team to create marketing strategies for each unique company, client pitches, and execution on briefs.
- Assists in creative strategy and insights to guide both the creative and marketing team in optimizing creative across all areas of visual expression, including Print, mobile.
- Ensure Creative approaches are aligned with a deep understanding of our own and our clients' customers, audiences, product offerings, marketing plans, and key messaging across all lines of business.
- Ensure a high level of design execution is met across a wide variety of B2B and DTC marketing assets.
- Collaborate with team to design a fluid briefing and management process / structures that allow for quick pivots and explorations while upholding our quality expectations.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of progressive creative experience with increasing responsibility in brand, design, packaging, marketing, and creative leadership.
- 5+ years of experience leading and developing creative teams.
- Proven success building and evolving consumer-facing brands.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional creative thinking, brand-building, and design execution.
- Experience leading creative development across digital, social, retail, packaging, print, and web channels.
- Deep understanding of branding, visual storytelling, customer experience, and creative strategy.
- Experience managing creative budgets, agencies, freelancers, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong operational mindset with the ability to build processes that improve efficiency without sacrificing creativity.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and modern creative collaboration tools.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and highly collaborative environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with disruptive, challenger, or category-creating consumer brands.
- Background in DTC and omnichannel retail environments.
- Experience launching new products, sub-brands, or entirely new brands.
- Familiarity with content creation, video production, photography, and performance marketing creative.
- A genuine passion for branding, design, storytelling, and building brands that challenge convention.
Benefits (The Good Stuff)
- Creative, energetic environment (with award-winning products)
- Hybrid work setup (remote plus in-office and on-set days)
- Medical and dental benefits
- Matching 401(k)
- Massage chair and relaxation room (when in-office)
- Bottomless lattes (also when in-office, we're not shipping espresso... yet)
- Casual work environment, flush yeah
- Endless poop and odor jokes (obviously)
