Creative Director
Golden Hippo is a young, growing digital marketing company committed to helping everyone live their healthiest life. We create cutting edge health, wellness, and beauty products and work tirelessly to get them into the hands of the people who need them most - our customers. We're growing fast, but our core values remain the same as when we were founded in 2010.
Golden Hippo is currently looking for a Creative Director to lead our graphic design team to translate company clients’ business strategy into clear creative direction, evolve company design culture and processes, elevate quality of existing and new brands, and provide creative leadership to company teams and clients.
HERE IS WHAT WE OFFER YOU
At Golden Hippo you have a chance to make an impact. You will have the opportunity to be creative, take initiative and grow. A career at Golden Hippo is more than just a job. It's the chance to work among friends every day, to work and play hard, and to see the results of your work firsthand. We work in a lively, laid back work environment with a fully stocked kitchen for our employees to use. We also offer:
- Competitive salary (DOE)
- Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, life)
- Matching 401K plan
- In-office CrossFit gym with professional coaches
- Yoga and meditation breaks
- Casual, "no dress code" atmosphere and an open office space
- Highly interactive work with a talented, passionate team
- UNLIMITED room for growth and results-based pay increases
WHAT YOUR DAY IS LIKE
Drive and evolve all of our brands marketing on and offline
Supervise a team of designers to develop quality work through all phases of design
Develop new brands and redesigns, pitch and sell through big idea presentations to key clients and internal stakeholders
Direct brainstorming meetings and creative sessions
Ensure creative excellence, cohesiveness, and quality across all creative designs
Lead the ideation, development, and management of user centric brands and projects
Collaborate cross functionally with clients regarding product design, digital marketing, etc.
Understand the expectations for each brand and communicate this information to design team
Make creative briefs and translate clients goals and visions
Collaborate with media buyers and develop creative ideas for the improvement of new sales letters and funnels by analyzing data
Oversee design for packages, labels, websites, sales funnels, etc.
Represent Golden Hippo in client-facing pitches and meetings
BEST CANDIDATES WILL HAVE
10+ years experience in a creative agency/brand focused environment with an emphasis on performance marketing
5+ years of management experience
Bachelors Degree required
Beauty, health, wellness industry background
Experience with branding, packaging, Ecommerce, performance marketing experience
A strong portfolio of previous work that is relevant to our business and this position
Experience using Invision and Sketch
Knowledge of UI/UX design
Passionate about design and motivate team to create good work
Ability to direct highly strategic vision work but also manage tactical, iterative and fast-paced asset production
Understand integrated content across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, but also understand offline, print and traditional retail.
Excellent written, communication and presentation skills for client-facing and sales leadership interaction
Highly empathetic to your audiences and ensure creative ideas are grounded in insights
Familiar with Crazy Egg, Hot Jar
Golden Hippo is always looking for smart, driven self-starters who are excited to build a place for themselves in one of the most fun, exciting companies in Los Angeles. If you thrive on community and communication, learning from your failures, and embracing the unexpected, Golden Hippo just might be the place for you.
Golden Hippo Company Culture Highlights:
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company in Los Angeles 2019
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Happiness 2018
- Golden Hippo is ranked in the top 5% of companies for Work Culture on Comparably.
Check us out on Comparably: https://www.comparably.com/companies/golden-hippo