Creative Services Manager

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🔥 8 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Story Cannabis

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2021

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

B2C • eCommerce • Retail

Story Cannabis is a cannabis retail company operating licensed dispensaries across various states, including Maryland, Ohio, Arizona, and New Jersey. They focus on providing a variety of premium cannabis products, including high-quality flower and edibles, and they emphasize customer loyalty through exclusive deals and membership benefits. With a commitment to quality and customer experience, Story Cannabis aims to create a welcoming environment for both new and seasoned cannabis users.

📋 Description

• Lead the development and execution of creative across Story Cannabis and its portfolio of brands across digital, print, retail, eCommerce, CRM, social, packaging, presentations, events, and sales materials. • Personally design and produce high-priority creative assets. • Translate marketing strategies, campaign briefs, product launches, promotions, and business objectives into creative concepts and executions. • Define, maintain, and protect visual brand standards across Story Cannabis and its portfolio of brands. • Develop scalable campaign creative and visual systems across brands, markets, products, retail locations, and channels. • Lead creative development for retail marketing initiatives, including store openings, promotions, merchandising, signage, window graphics, point-of-sale materials, in-store experiences, and customer communications. • Support wholesale marketing and sales through sell sheets, retailer-facing materials, product launch tools, presentations, displays, trade marketing assets, and budtender education materials. • Support packaging development, refreshes, line extensions, and product launches while meeting brand and state-specific compliance requirements. • Manage creative production from concept through final execution, including revisions, resizing, versioning, file preparation, prepress, production specifications, and vendor handoff. • Manage creative versioning across brands, markets, products, promotional offers, formats, and regulatory requirements. • Direct and provide feedback to agencies, freelancers, photographers, illustrators, printers, production vendors, and other external creative partners. • Partner with Brand Marketing, Retail Marketing, CRM, eCommerce, Wholesale, Sales, Operations, Product, and other cross-functional stakeholders. • Manage day-to-day creative workflow, including project intake, prioritization, timelines, feedback, approvals, and delivery. • Establish templates, processes, and repeatable creative systems to improve speed, consistency, scalability, and efficiency. • Maintain organized creative files, brand assets, photography, templates, logos, packaging files, and other creative resources. • Support photography and content production, including creative direction, shot lists, asset selection, and post-production oversight. • Present creative concepts and recommendations to Marketing leadership and internal stakeholders. • Mentor and provide creative guidance to designers and other creative resources. • Monitor design, retail, consumer, digital, cultural, and cannabis trends and apply relevant trends to brand-appropriate creative. • Balance creative quality with speed to market, scalability, business objectives, and multi-state operational realities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Marketing, or a related field preferred. • 7+ years of progressive experience in graphic design, creative services, art direction, brand design, or a related creative discipline, including senior-level creative leadership while remaining highly hands-on in design and production. • Strong portfolio demonstrating sophisticated design thinking and execution across digital, print, retail, packaging, brand, and integrated marketing channels. • Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with a strong command of typography, layout, visual hierarchy, brand systems, and digital and print production. • Experience developing integrated campaigns and creating production-ready artwork, including file preparation, resizing, versioning, prepress, and vendor production requirements. • Experience directing and managing agencies, freelancers, photographers, printers, production vendors, and other external creative partners. • Experience supporting consumer-facing brands—preferably in cannabis, CPG, retail, lifestyle, food and beverage, or hospitality—with multi-brand, packaging, merchandising, or multi-location retail experience strongly preferred. • Strong organizational, project management, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment and travel within Story Cannabis markets as business needs require. • This role requires prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. • Occasional lifting, carrying, or transporting of marketing materials, signage, creative samples, or event supplies up to 25 pounds may be required. • Occasional travel to retail locations, photo shoots, events, production vendors, or other Story Cannabis markets may be required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (PTO) including 8 paid holidays per year* • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance* • 401k retirement savings plan* • Company paid Short-Term & Long-Term disability* • Company paid Life Insurance* • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Employee referral program • Commuter benefits* • Product discounts • Additional compensation incentives (tips, bonuses, etc.)