About Refyne
We are redefining recruitment across the Personal Care, Beauty, Aesthetics & Wellness space. We partner with ambitious businesses to source high impact talent and make hiring feel seamless, and we guarantee our results every time! From entry level to executive search, we bring market insight, global network depth, and a Refyned, high touch approach. Whether you're building your founding team or hiring at scale, we're your people.
About Our Client
We are partnering with a fast growing, family founded haircare brand that has become one of the most loved textured hair care brands in the US. The brand is known for its authentic story, real results and a community first approach, and it is growing quickly across online, social commerce and retail.
The Opportunity
As Art Director, Brand & Design, you will bring the brand to life across campaigns, digital, packaging, retail displays and experiential marketing. This is a hands on leadership role for a strong designer who can create great concepts, personally deliver key creative and lead a team of graphic designers.
You will report to the Director of Brand Marketing and work closely with Brand, Growth, Ecommerce, Retention, Retail, Experiential, Product Development and Supply Chain. You will turn brand strategy into clear visual direction and build the standards and ways of working a growing beauty brand needs.
This role is fully remote.
Key Responsibilities
- Create concepts and visual systems for campaigns, product launches and always on brand marketing.
- Turn brand strategy into clear art direction, design briefs and consistent work across every touchpoint.
- Maintain and evolve design standards, templates and asset libraries.
- Art direct photography, short form video, creator content and product demonstrations.
- Personally design key creative for ecommerce, social, email, paid media, marketplaces and campaigns.
- Create platform specific creative for social commerce, paid and organic social and livestream shopping.
- Use performance insight and customer feedback to test and improve creative.
- Design packaging, labels, kits and retail displays from concept through to production ready artwork.
- Work with vendors on dielines, proofs, colour, materials and finishes.
- Manage, coach and develop graphic designers and keep quality and deadlines on track.
Ideal Background
- 5+ years in brand design or creative, including leading designers and providing art direction.
- A strong portfolio covering consumer brand campaigns, photo and video art direction, creator content, packaging and retail design.
- Hands on skills in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, with strong typography, layout and image editing.
- Practical knowledge of packaging and print production.
- Experience designing for ecommerce and digital marketing.
- Able to direct video and motion work; hands on motion design or editing is a plus.
- Beauty, haircare, skincare, wellness or consumer goods experience strongly preferred.
- Social commerce experience strongly preferred.
Why Join
- Competitive salary of $120,000 plus bonus and benefits.
- Health, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and a retirement plan.
- Lead the look and feel of a high growth brand with national reach.
- Real room to grow with the business.
- Fully remote working.