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As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Every day, we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our over 1,700,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are also a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company.\nJoin us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.\nTHE ROLE\nThe Art Director of Packaging leads the creative strategy, quality, and consistency of Thrive Market’s Owned Brands packaging. This role manages a team of designers and production artists, collaborates cross-functionally to align packaging with brand goals, and oversees the production process from concept to print. Additionally, the Art Director drives innovation, optimizes design workflows, and ensures packaging meets industry trends and consumer expectations.\nThe ideal candidate is organized, process-oriented, has extreme attention to detail, and thrives in a fast-paced working environment. \nCore Responsibilities\n\nCreative Vision and Art Direction: Drive quality and consistency across all Thrive Market Owned Brands, providing daily creative feedback to the design team and aligning with stakeholders in bi-weekly meetings. Ensure all packaging designs adhere to brand standards and contribute to a cohesive brand identity.\n Team Management and Development: Oversee a team of packaging designers, delegating projects effectively and setting team members up for success. Conduct mid-year and annual performance reviews, manage career pathing, and establish clear OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to support growth and skill development.\nMentorship and Skill Building: Mentor designers, helping them optimize their processes, develop creative efficiencies, and achieve high standards in their work. Inspire team members through constructive feedback and fostering a collaborative team environment.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams in photo, content, and merchandising marketing to define creative objectives, packaging style, and strategic approaches. Interpret and follow Creative Briefs closely to ensure packaging aligns with broader brand and product objectives.\nEditorial and Content Alignment: Collaborate with the Content team to define the editorial direction for packaging, ensuring that brand storytelling aligns seamlessly across all packaging touchpoints.\n Brand Style Guides: Build, manage, and update brand style guides, including packaging standards (such as substrates, design elements, and typography) to maintain a strong visual identity across all Thrive Market brands.\nProduction Oversight: Manage the production process from design to printing, identifying and flagging any design inconsistencies and ensuring quality through all production stages. Collaborate with production teams on mechanicals and printing best practices.\n Proofing and Press Checks: Review proofs and lead press checks (on-site or remote), approving or rejecting against brand standards and printer specifications.\nNew Product Development: Provide creative support for product development, particularly for new categories like home goods, textiles, and specialty products, ensuring alignment with the overall brand aesthetic.\nMarket and Competitive Research: Conduct ongoing competitive research to stay informed about industry trends and consumer preferences, bringing innovative ideas to enhance Thrive Market's presence in the packaging space.\nProcess Optimization: Develop and implement operational efficiencies to streamline the packaging design process, reducing unnecessary revisions and improving productivity.\nPresentation and Leadership Communication: Create presentation materials, including packaging mockups and competitive landscape analysis, for leadership review, ensuring clear communication of strategic decisions and design rationale.\nPhotography and Retouching Oversight: Guide the on-pack photography process, providing direction and retouching feedback to ensure consistency and quality across all product images.\nInnovation in Packaging: Identify new opportunities to elevate the Thrive Market brand within the packaging industry by staying current on best practices in design, printing, and branding.\nQualifications\n\nExperience: 5+ years in packaging design and art direction, with a strong background in brand development, preferably within the CPG, food, or wellness industries.\nLeadership Skills: Proven experience managing a creative team, including mentorship, performance reviews, and project delegation, with a minimum of 2 years of direct people management experience.\n Technical Skills: Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and knowledge of print production processes, packaging substrates, and materials.\n Design Systems: Proven experience building, documenting, and maintaining scalable packaging design systems (templates, modular layouts, typography, color, substrates, and component libraries) that keep multiple product lines and brands cohesive and speed up production.\nProofing & Press Checks: Hands-on experience with proofing workflows and on-site or remote press checks, including color-matching, evaluating print quality, and approving or rejecting proofs against brand standards and printer specs.\nAI Tools & Efficiency: Experience evaluating and implementing AI tools to increase team efficiency, including assessing fit, quality, and risk, and integrating approved tools into design and production workflows.\nPhotography & Retouching: Experience directing on-pack product photography and giving retouching feedback to maintain consistent image quality.\nCreative Vision: Strong eye for design, typography, and color; ability to create cohesive brand identities and maintain quality standards across multiple products.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams, including content, photography, product development, and merchandising, to align packaging with overall brand and product goals.\nProject Management: Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple projects, timelines, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.\nMarket Knowledge: Understanding of current trends in packaging, sustainability, and consumer behavior, with the ability to conduct competitive research and apply insights.\nCommunication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication abilities for presenting design concepts and rationale to stakeholders.\nProblem-Solving: Skilled in identifying and addressing design inconsistencies and production issues, with a proactive approach to improving design processes and workflows.\nEducation: A bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field is preferred, though equivalent professional experience may also be considered.\nBELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY\nComprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)\nCompetitive salary (DOE) + equity\n401k plan\n9 Observed Holidays\nFlexible Paid Time Off\nSubsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences\nAbility to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista\nFree Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount\nCoverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform\nWe're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process.\nAt Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply.\nThrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer\nAt Thrive Market, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workplace that is representative, at all job levels, of the members we serve and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to be an inclusive company and an Equal Opportunity Employer and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. If you’re thinking about joining our team, we expect that you would agree!\nEmployment with Thrive Market requires that employees be based in the United States. This is a condition of employment and must be maintained throughout the duration of employment.\nIf you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at  and we’ll be happy to assist you.\nEnsure your Thrive Market job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Thrive Market never seeks payment from job applicants. Thrive Market recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @thrivemarket.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.thrivemarket.com.\n© Thrive Market 2026 All rights reserved.\nJOB INFORMATION\nCompensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000/Per Year.\nCompensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location.\nTotal Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!\nThis position requires traveling to our HQ office in Los Angeles, California, twice a year for all-company summits; once in the summer and once in the winter.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9959,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Equity","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Retail & Shop Systems","Online Groceries"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T01:47:06Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 10 · green card filings: 3","filings_12m":10,"filings_prev_12m":9,"green_card_filings_12m":3,"median_offered_wage_usd":174808,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":43,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":125000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/thrive-market-art-director-packaging","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/thrive-market-art-director-packaging.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T22:46:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5841,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1979152},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1979152"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthrive-market-art-director-packaging"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fthrive-market-art-director-packaging"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fthrive-market-art-director-packaging"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/thrive-market-art-director-packaging\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthrive-market-art-director-packaging"}]}