Associate Director, Brand, Culture & Activations

Watertown, MA (On-site)

$135K/yr – $170K/yrMid Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale the brand’s cultural engine by shaping real world moments and partnerships that make ButcherBox feel unmistakably relevant and ownable across channels.

  • Own concepting and execution of brand activations, pop ups, and IRL experiences that drive awareness and affinity.
  • Develop creator partnerships and cultural moments that extend the brand into culture with clarity and relevance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Cultural Programming & Brand Moments
  • Concept and build the brand moments, activations, partnerships, cultural ideas, and real-world experiences that help ButcherBox show up with more relevance, distinction, and point of view.
  • Own the brand’s cultural programming calendar as a strategic tool for building awareness, affinity, conversation, and brand meaning.
  • Translate business and brand priorities into consumer-facing ideas that feel timely, ownable, useful, and worth talking about.
  • Bring forward ideas that connect ButcherBox to culture in ways that feel natural, not forced. Sharp, not gimmicky. Distinct, not generic.
  • Identify where ButcherBox has permission to show up and where we can create new permission through creativity, usefulness, and conviction.
  • Partner closely with creative, social, PR, growth, retail, product, member experience, and CX to make sure brand moments connect across the business and do not live as one-off ideas.
  • Brand Activations & Experiences: Lead the concepting and execution of brand activations, pop-ups, events, IRL experiences, community moments, and surprise-and-delight programs.
  • Shape the full experience from the core idea to the details people remember.
  • Bring a high-taste lens to everything: the concept, the environment, the language, the partner, the takeaway, the guest experience, and the follow-through.
  • Know how to make small ideas feel big, and big ideas feel simple enough to actually execute.
  • Manage the moving pieces needed to bring activations to life, including timelines, budgets, vendors, production partners, and cross-functional teams.
  • Build moments that feel unmistakably ButcherBox, not like something any food brand could have done.
  • Partnerships & Cultural Opportunities: Concept and develop partnerships, collaborations, creator moments, talent ideas, founder-led opportunities, and community-driven programs that extend ButcherBox into culture.
  • Evaluate opportunities through the lens of brand fit, audience relevance, cultural heat, business value, and whether the idea has a real reason to exist.
  • Spot unexpected ways for ButcherBox to show up, then turn those opportunities into ideas that feel simple, sharp, and ownable.
  • Partner with social, PR, and creative to make every partnership work harder across channels.
  • Bring a strong point of view on who we should align with, what we should make together, and how the collaboration should live in the world.
  • Brand Platform in Action: Help translate the brand platform into real-world behaviors, ideas, partnerships, activations, member moments, and company-wide initiatives.
  • Act as a filter for what feels like ButcherBox and what does not and Help teams understand how the brand should show up beyond campaigns: in culture, in member experience, in retail, in partnerships, in service moments, and in the details people remember.
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ButcherBox

4.0 Glassdoor

By delivering humanely-raised meat and sustainably-harvested seafood directly to consumers’ doors, ButcherBox presents an altogether for our customers better way to experience food. As the only B Corp Certified meat and seafood company to source exclusively from partners with 3rd party animal welfare certification, we’re here to transform meat by doing right by the animals, the planet, farmers, workers and our members.

Founded in 2015
Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
77% recommend to a friend
77% CEO approval

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