Creative Director

Job Description

A Little About Us

Lifetime Brands is a leading global designer, developer, and marketer of a broad range of branded consumer products used in the home. This position is located in Seattle, WA and will be a part of the Rabbit Wine, Chef’n, and Planetbox brand teams. We’re looking for someone to provide strong creative direction, thoughtful leadership to the creative team, inspiring and motivating others to push boundaries and deliver with excellence. We believe that working together with intention and passion create the best outcomes!

About the Job

The Creative Director should be a dynamic and strategic thinker who can blend creativity with business objectives to elevate Rabbit Wine, Chef’n, and Planetbox brands. You will also be responsible for leading and managing each brand’s creative visual direction down to daily oversight in executing projects across all visual branding, digital and print.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead the of team of creative designers of all levels in defining, developing, and executing brand content strategies and creative that are essential in delivering on our business and marketing initiatives
• Collaborate across the creative and brand/digital teams to foster an innovative working environment while overseeing the execution of creative projects from inception to completion
• Help champion and lead the visual storytelling that is consistently thread across all channels and is crucial to support each brand’s positioning and data driven marketing initiatives, adjust as necessary
• Ensure communication between the creative teams and other teams (product, PM, sales, digital) as well as 3rd party vendors (photographers, videographers, food/prop stylists)
• Streamline creative processes to create efficiencies that allow teams to focus more time on the creative tasks
• Manage and own the budget for the creative team
• Manage the master photography/videography schedule
• Responsible for the management and delivery each shoot in partnership with the producer
• Work closely with team to ensure projects are on time, on budget and reflect brand standards

Requirements:

• Experience (8+ years) in creative roles, with a proven track record of leadership and creative excellence
• Excellent communication, organizational, presentation skills and attention to detail
• A strong creative vision and understanding of business needs and objectives
• Experience building strong internal and 3rd party relationships, comfortable wearing many hats
• Experience leading teams, including ability to prioritize and delegate workloads for your team as well as ability to pivot thinking and adjust direction when necessary
• Enthusiasm for digital marketing, emerging design trends and innovations as well as packaging design
• Strong knowledge of Kitchenware Consumer Goods/Sustainability/creative trends and best practices
• A strong creative vision and understanding of business needs and objectives
• Proficient in creative software and tools
• Ability to thrive in a fast past environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities

Location: Seattle,WA/Hybrid

Salary Range: $110,000 - $120,000

About Lifetime Brands

Lifetime Brands is a leading global provider of kitchenware, tableware and other products used in the home. We offer brands you trust, value without compromise and an unwavering commitment to innovation. Our products make it easier for you to prepare food, serve meals, entertain guests, and decorate your home.

We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits, which includes:

*All full-time employees (and family members) are eligible to participate in our Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
*Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care
*Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability
*Company Paid Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
*Eligibility in the Company's 401K plan, after 90 days of employment
*Paid Time Off (vacation/sick) - accrual of 15 days per calendar year for non-warehouse positions; accrual of 10 days per calendar year for hourly based warehouse positions
*10 Company Paid Holidays
*Employee Product Discounts
*Tuition Assistance
*Employee Assistance Program
*Volunteer Opportunities- 4 hours of paid optional volunteer time (annually)
*Seattle, WA based employees are provided with commute trip reduction incentives
*Benefits are offered to employees who work 30 hours or more

In addition to the above, we offer voluntary benefits.

Lifetime Brands, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This job posting contains a pay range, which represents the range of salaries or hourly rates that Lifetime Brands believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting that it might be willing to pay for the posted job. Lifetime Brands expects to hire for this position near the middle of the range. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances, where an external candidate has experience, credentials or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position, would Lifetime Brands consider paying a salary or rate near the higher end of the range.