smalls - Senior Art Director
Requirements
• You have 7+ years of experience, with meaningful time in-house at a brand where you had to hold visual standards across channels without a large team or agency infrastructure doing it for you. You've art directed shoots. You've managed designers. You've been the person who catches drift before it ships. • You think in systems, not assets. You can look at a brief, a collab proposal, or a new product category and ask: what does the brand demand here? And then answer that question with conviction. • You have strong enough design instincts to give the design team real creative direction, not just approvals. You understand the difference between a brand-led product experience and a conversion-optimized one, and you know how to hold the former while respecting the latter. • You have working fluency in both graphic design and UX/UI contexts — enough to direct product designers meaningfully and hold the brand standard across digital surfaces, not just print and campaign. • You manage well. The team here is talented, detail-oriented, and tends toward caution. You bring clarity and creative energy without creating anxiety. You can make a decisive call and move on. • You have a cat, or you're genuinely willing to get one. This isn't a culture fit checkbox — it's functional. You'll be briefing, directing, and evaluating work about cat food, cat behavior, and the cat-owner relationship every single day. The feedback loop of living with a cat is real and it matters. • You're a communicator. You can write a brief, explain a direction, push back on a request, and present your thinking to a founder without hedging everything into mush. • You're comfortable being the operational creative center of the function. The CBO is a strategic leader who comes in for direction, taste, and high-level decisions. The day-to-day runs through you.
Benefits
• $168K – $185K • Offers Equity • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • You can write N/A if you prefer to upload it below instead. • You can skip this if you've already provided a link above. • Tell us about yourself & your interest in Smalls. • I prefer not to answer • Another Gender Identity • Heterosexual / straight • Asian or Asian American • Black or African American • Hispanic or Latine • Indigenous or Native American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Person with disability • Refugee or immigrant • None of the above • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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