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Compensation
USD 85000 - 100000
Base salary range $85,000-$100,000. Competitive compensation packages including incentives and benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision plans; Company Paid Long Term Disability; Employee Assistance Programs; 401k with Match; generous paid time off; gear test/perks.
- Salary period
- yearly
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Company Paid Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Programs
- 401k with Match
- Generous paid time off policies
- Gear test, perks and more
Tech stack
Required
Nice to have
Location
Denver, Colorado, United States
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time employee
- Level
- Senior
- Remote policy
- Remote OK; Work arrangement: Remote. Must be able to travel up to 4-6 weeks per year. Must be able to work in a stationary position 75% of the work day.
- Remote scope
- unclear
- Travel
- Travel up to 4-6 weeks per year.
Role details
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Stio's visual identity across brand guidelines, logo systems, typography, color, and design standards
- Develop and maintain brand creative systems for consistency across channels
- Lead creative concepting for seasonal campaigns and product launches in partnership with the Associate Creative Director
- Translate brand strategy and seasonal briefs into compelling visual concepts
- Pitch creative ideas to senior leadership
- Art direct and execute packaging design across product categories
- Develop brand collateral, hang tags, labels, and print materials
- Partner with retail and marketing teams to develop creative for new Mountain Studio store openings, in-store environments, and brand events
- Develop storyboards and visual treatments for video and motion creative
- Collaborate with production partners and internal stakeholders to bring video creative to life
- Work cross-functionally with Brand Marketing, Digital, E-commerce, Product, and Retail teams to ensure creative consistency
- Contribute to creative briefs, reviews, and feedback processes
- Mentor and provide creative direction to internal designers and senior designers
- Manage and direct freelancers, external designers, and creative partners as needed
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in art direction or graphic design
- Portfolio spanning brand campaigns, identity, and digital creative
- Experience at a consumer brand in outdoor, apparel, activewear, lifestyle, or adjacent categories
- Experience art directing lifestyle photo and video productions on-location
- Proven ability to concept and lead campaigns from brief through final delivery
- Confident presenting creative to senior stakeholders
- Sharp sense for copy and messaging; understanding how words and visuals work together
- Experienced in storyboarding and developing visual treatments for video and motion content
- Deep understanding of typography, layout, photography, design systems, and brand expression across print and digital
- Demonstrated ability to provide direction and constructive feedback to designers
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Figma; comfortable with evolving AI creative tools
- Highly organized, self-directed, and energized by building creative in a fast-moving, collaborative environment
- Authentically connected to mountain lifestyle, outdoor culture, and the values that drive the Stio brand
- Commitment to Stio's mission, vision, and values
Application
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- Portfolio
- required
- GitHub
- not required
- Cover letter
- unclear
- Apply flow
- external
Company context
- Product
- Omni-channel mountain brand apparel, footwear, and accessories
- Industry
- Apparel and footwear retail (outdoor mountain brand)
- HQ
- Jackson, Wyoming
Description
About UsStio® is an omni-channel mountain brand that designs, develops and sells beautiful, functional, and innovative apparel, footwear and other accessories infused with the soul of the mountain lifestyle. With headquarters in Jackson, Wyoming, Stio draws inspiration from the surrounding Teton Range and offers product via Stio.com, catalog, B2B and its Mountain Studio® retail locations.We live and love mountain life, and as such see ourselves as caretakers of the resources that provide it. We are proud partners of Protect Our Winters and the Conservation Alliance among many other organizations. We have a strong preferred materials platform, use Bluesign® approved textiles wherever possible, audit our supply chains for best practices, and operate our workplaces responsibly.We think that outside is the best side and that you can't improve on nature. It's good for mind, body and soul, and it's our responsibility to help enable access for all people, regardless of race, gender, beliefs, background or ability. We strive for inclusion at Stio and in our local and national communities.YOUR ROLEThe Art Director, Brand & Concepts is responsible for shaping how Stio looks and feels across every touchpoint from seasonal campaigns and product launches to brand identity, packaging, retail environments, and events. This role partners closely with the Associate Creative Director to develop and execute brand and seasonal product marketing creative that is visually distinctive, emotionally resonant, and deeply rooted in mountain life.This is a role for a creative who brings both a strong conceptual point of view and the executional range to bring ideas to life at a high level. Someone who can pitch a campaign concept to senior leadership just as confidently as they can translate it into a finished asset, and who is equally at home on location, art directing lifestyle photo and video productions alongside photographers, stylists, filmmakers, models, and athletes.
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