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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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