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We're hiring a Creative Manager to set and elevate the creative standard across our brand portfolio - leading an in-house creative team and staying hands-on with the work across packaging, campaigns, retail, and experiential touchpoints. If you're a CPG creative leader who pairs a strong point of view with the discipline to ship polished, production-ready work on deadline, we want to hear from you.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn and evolve the visual expression of the Mammoth portfolio brands, protecting what makes each one distinct while setting standards for typography, color, layout, photography, video, and packaging\nReview priority creative before it ships, ensuring every asset is polished, accurate, channel-appropriate, and production-ready\nTranslate campaign strategy, product stories, consumer insight, and commercial priorities into clear visual concepts before execution begins\nPartner closely with Marketing, brand leadership, and company leadership to understand the intent behind feedback and convert it into actionable creative direction\nPresent work with confidence and brevity - explain the idea, connect it to the objective, and recommend a clear path forward\nPersonally concept, design, refine, or art-direct high-visibility projects, guiding packaging, retail, digital, experiential, photography, and video creative from concept through final production\nGive direct, specific feedback that improves hierarchy, storytelling, craft, and commercial clarity\nRun a dependable workflow from brief through concept, review, production, approval, and handoff\nPartner with Marketing and project management to prioritize work against business impact, deadlines, capacity, and dependencies\nBuild scalable templates, modular toolkits, file standards, and asset libraries that increase speed without making the work generic\nCoach and develop designers through clear expectations, thoughtful assignments, and consistent critique\nSurface tradeoffs early, manage stakeholder expectations, and protect the team from avoidable rework and unclear priorities\nWhat You'll Bring\nCPG brand experience, with a portfolio demonstrating strong campaign thinking and brand-building across multiple channels \nHands-on packaging design experience, including the ability to guide work from concept through production-ready files \nExperience leading or managing an in-house creative team in a fast-moving, multi-stakeholder environment \nAdvanced design craft and fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud, with the ability and willingness to personally contribute to the work \nExperience art-directing photography and video, including briefing, pre-production, on-set direction, and post-production review \nExperience in cannabis, wellness, beauty, beverage, lifestyle, or another regulated consumer category\nWork Environment\nBased at our North Hollywood, CA headquarters, working closely with Marketing, brand leadership, and company ownership\nFast-paced, multi-brand environment that balances hands-on design work with team leadership and executive presentations\n Compensation & Benefits\n$95- 110K/year\nMedical, dental, vision, and life insurance - eligible after 60 days\nLead creative direction across an established, growing portfolio of recognized cannabis brands\nAlso relevant if you have experience as: Creative Director, Associate Creative Director, Art Director, Design Manager, Brand Creative Manager, Packaging Design Manager, CPG Creative Lead, Creative Operations Manager, or Senior Graphic Designer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3776,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T18:05:38Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":110000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mammoth-distribution-creative-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mammoth-distribution-creative-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:32:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1860,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3140,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}