Creative Director
The Honest Company
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About Us
The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST) is a digitally-native consumer products company born in the Gen Z era to make purpose-driven consumer products designed for all people. Since its launch in 2012, Honest has been dedicated to creating thoughtfully formulated, safe and effective personal care, beauty, baby and household products, which are available via honest.com, third-party ecommerce partners and approximately 50,000 retail locations across the United States, Canada and Europe. Based in Los Angeles, CA, the Company's mission, to inspire everyone to love living consciously, is driven by its values of transparency, trust, sustainability and a deep sense of purpose around what matters most to its consumers: their health, their families and their homes. For more information about the Honest Standard and the company, please visit www.honest.com.
Our Mission
We're on a mission to empower people to live happy, healthy lives. We're a wellness brand with values rooted in consciousness, community, transparency, and design. Every day and in every way, we hold ourselves to an Honest standard. We believe that it is our responsibility to do our part to help create a healthy and sustainable future for all.
The Role
The Honest Company has kicked off a search for a new Creative Director! In this role, you will lead the ongoing production of all Honest marketing and promotional campaigns to drive business growth. As a Creative Director, you’ll partner with cross functional
stakeholders to develop and execute conceptual work that meets the needs of our consumer. This role reports directly into the Chief Growth Officer. If you are a true thought leader and creative guru that thrives in a fast-paced environment, this role is for you.
What you’ll do:
- Build, inspire and lead a small in house creative team
- Create world class marketing that creates a connection with our brand and inspires demand for our products in digitally progressive ways.
- Be a guardian and champion of our brand and style guide helping on-board and coach new creative team members to ensure we consistently build brand equity and elevate our creative mastery in-house.
- Guide the execution for brand identity across all aspects of the brand experience including all channels and media vehicles (advertising, digital/social, packaging, Ecommerce, retail, experiential), ensuring a cohesive brand experience across every touch point for the consumer.
- Drive our overall print and pattern strategy across our products to make style and pattern a strategic ownable point of difference for the brand.
- Lead brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas. Build a culture of ideation and creativity into the fabric of the Honest internal culture.
- Create brief-driven concepts and conceptual presentations. Present and sell work to internal executives and key stakeholders
- Mentor, develop and lead junior talent, providing clear direction and constructive feedback to build a high performance team
- Collaborate cross functionally with a spirit of business partnership and creative problem solving.
Compensation
The pay range for this role is $157K - $170K base salary. Actual compensation is based on many factors including but not limited to depth of experience, skill level, ability, knowledge, education, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total rewards package for this position may also include base, annual incentive plan, benefits, retirement plan, equity, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
You’ll love this job if you’re:
- An outstanding creative. You’re a superstar in your field with a gleaming portfolio to match.
- A strong communicator and collaborator. You’ll work effectively with all members of the organization, from individual contributors to top execs
- Highly organized with extreme attention to detail
- Flexible and resilient. You’re patient and positive in the face of project drift
- A talented juggler. You successfully manage competing priorities, and you make it look easy
- Able to thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree, and/or Masters in Design.
- 7-8 years of experience in web design, graphic design, mobile video & digital media, packaging design
- 5+ years experience in a creative lead role; experience leading and developing others
- Proven track record of having demonstrated creativity and innovation with working knowledge of retail, E-commerce, social media best practices so you innovate beyond them.
- Experience in CPG / lifestyle/ digitally progressive brands/ company.
- Strong and impeccable aesthetic consistent with Honest that leverages our inspired-by- real people heritage in relevant and distinctive expressions.
- Relevant photo/advertising composition background with expertise in concepting and overseeing/directing shoots & production for multiple platform applications.
- Creative portfolio of results oriented work that shows a diversity of experience across both online and offline media and retail channels.
- Strong business acumen, with a solid understanding of how to achieve business objectives while meeting an expected brand standard and high bar for aesthetic
- Ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast paced environment
**MUST PROVIDE PORTFOLIO FOR CONSIDERATION**
Bonus points for:
- Combination of in-house and agency experience
Benefits & Perks
We offer a competitive benefits package including comprehensive health and wellness coverage, 401k with company match, wellness incentives including a monthly fitness reimbursement and onsite fitness classes, options for education reimbursement, and a discount on all products. We value work-life balance and offer a generous and flexible vacation policy. Thinking about adding little ones to your family? Honest offers generous maternity and paternity leave. We love the furry kids too and offer pet insurance so your companions are well taken care of.
California Privacy Rights Notice for Californian Job Applicants and Prospective Talent
Effective Date: January 1, 2020
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), The Honest Company, Inc. (“Honest” or “us” or “we”) is required to inform California residents who are our job applicants or prospective talent (together “job applicants” or “you”) about the categories of personal information we may collect about you and the purposes for which we use this information. Click here if you are a California resident to read disclosures required by the CCPA. Note this notice applies only to personal information that is subject to the CCPA.
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- Telephone number
- Education
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- Auditing related to our interactions with you;
- Legal compliance
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- Performing services for us, such as analytics;
- Internal research for technological improvement; and
- Internal operations.
Other Interactions with The Honest Company. More information about our privacy practices can be found in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.