Senior Creative Director

| El Segundo
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At Chef’d we believe great food creates memories, enhances moments, and nurtures the soul. Our mission is to enrich lives through culinary adventure with our hand-cultivated, meticulously curated, delicious experiences. Chef’d is the only subscription-free meal marketplace allowing you to discover new foods the way you want—no strings attached. We have over 1500 recipes from some of the best names in food—celebrity chefs, major brands, and culinary influencers.

We're a team filled with chef's, culinary writers, data scientists, marketing/sales experts, production associates and more - all committed to playing our hearts out. We follow through with our goals, move fast, and take risks. The industry is growing and we're at the forefront of innovation and personalization.

Chef'd, a venture-backed, series-B company, is beginning to experience high growth as we scale our operations to new markets and distribution channels. There are plenty of areas where we can innovate and optimize.

The Senior Creative Director will oversee the development of brand design, creative assets and marketing campaigns across digital, video, print, retail and emerging media that brings to life the Chef’d brand, through its value proposition. Chef’d is at the onset of bringing to life a more fresh, relevant and powerful brand to the marketplace, and this role will be key to building experiences that make our promises real. The Senior Creative Director will collaborate with stakeholders to drive innovative ideas that resonate, be the voice of brand excellence, and continuously championing the brand across the organization.

Responsibilities:

  • We’re looking for a player and a coach — Oversee teams of creators (content and design). Partner closely with data scientists, content strategists and campaign managers, to bring user-centric thinking and world-class experience design into everything they do.
  • Be the voice of brand excellence — both a thought leader and a doer, able to set the vision for brand activations and champion exceptional ideas throughout the marketing and entire organization.
  • Direct and guide the execution of world-class talent - helping to shape amazing work both by directly executing and by inspiring designers to do the best work of their careers.
  • Act as an ambassador for the global brand program at the company and continue to nurture relationships across marketing organization to foster world-class work.
  • Develop brand creative assets and experiences across all touchpoints and channels.
  • Build, codify and maintain a world-class, principles-based and global visual identity system. Continuously evolve the design strategy and the pattern of the Chef’d brand.
  • Ensure all touchpoints are on brand, coherent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice across all channels online, social media, email, point of purchase, mobile, video, print and retail.
  • Participate in post-mortem reporting, including evaluation of process and infrastructure.
  • Get into the weeds on storytelling, shining a light on how great experiences come to life and shepherding through test-and-learn best practices to drive the business forward.
  • Lead by example in all moments — direct and guide the execution of world-class talent, helping to shape amazing work both by executing directly and by inspiring designers to do the best work of their careers.

Profile:

  • Minimum of ten (10) years experience, with not fewer than three (3) in a creative leadership position with a world-class content creation for Fortune 500 brands.
  • Experience designing and directing the development of large scale brand identity programs, brand creative assets and experiences for world-class global brands, and large, integrated cross-channel campaigns a must.
  • Primary bias towards visual storytelling; another bias towards social activation and participatory marketing.
  • An exceptional portfolio of groundbreaking work that inspires others to sharpen their pencils
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
  • Able to seamlessly move across conversations at all levels of the organization, from field marketing to the C-Suite.
  • Background in brand, broadcast, digital or print production. Must have retail experience.
  • Strong industry knowledge and connections at both agencies and production houses.
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Graphic/Communications Design, Advertising, or related fields preferred.

Founded in 2014, Chef'd is Headquartered in El Segundo, CA with production facilities in El Segundo, CA, Brooklyn, NY, and Pico Rivera, CA. Chef'd offers competitive compensation packages including full medical, dental, and vision benefits, flexible PTO, pet insurance, and discounts on meal kits!

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Just south of LAX, conveniently located near two train stops and only 2 miles from the beach!

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