Creative Development Manager

Responsibilities

• Manage and continuously improve the lifecycle of creative projects from intake through final delivery, serving as the single source of truth for timelines, status, and execution. Document the creative lifecycle process, train internal and external stakeholders, and ensure adherence.
• Resource & Vendor Coordination: Coordinate internal creative resources and external agencies to ensure balanced workloads, clear expectations, and on-time delivery.
• Project Management & Scheduling: Act as the primary Marketing liaison between Creative, Brand Managers, Project Managers, Sales, Operations, Regulatory, International Distributors, Contract Manufactures, and leadership to reduce friction, resolve conflicts, and drive clarity. Define and manage project plans, milestones, review stages, and approvals for campaigns, packaging, POS, and commercial assets.
• Budget Tracking & Performance Metrics: Track project costs and invoices and report on operational metrics such as volume, velocity, and efficiency.
• Tools & Systems Ownership: Own and optimize creative workflow and asset management tools (e.g., Lytho, Canto, Asana, Oracle PLM, Monday, Workfront).
• Ensure final deliverables align with established brand standards, quality requirements, technical and retailer requirements, and regulatory approvals prior to release or production. Create technical briefs and complete technical artwork reviews. Facilitate annual audits of artwork templates to ensure they are compliant and correct.
• Vendor & Contract Coordination: Support vendor onboarding and coordinate SOWs and project documentation in partnership with Finance and Legal.
• Owns and maintains assets in Thermacell’s DAM (Digital Asset Management) system.
• PLM Stewardship – maintains and sets up key assets in Thermacell’s PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system.

Requirements

• Experience: 3-5+ years in creative operations, project management, or art trafficking, ideally in agency or in-house creative teams
• Proficient in Adobe Suite including Illustrator, Photoshop etc
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in one or more project management tools (e.g., Lytho, Asana, Jira, Monday)
• Operational Mindset: Strong, data-driven understanding of creative production workflows
• Communication: Exceptional organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Experience with Stage-Gate process
• Ability to translate marketing brief into creative brief
• General knowledge and understanding of printing process
• Experience in packaging design and working with brand guidelines
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Design, Communication or Operations preferred

Preferred

• THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:
• - Lives our core values of Drive, Ownership, Integrity, Teamwork and Evolution
• - Authentic and personable, humble, smart
• - Relentless work ethic juiced by results, not titles or activities
• - Highly resourceful. Hands-on and practical
• - Motivated by challenge, resilient in the face of setbacks or adversity
• - Make impeccable agreements, delivers end-to end results with excellence
• - Makes high-quality data-based decisions with autonomy
• - Effective communicator meeting people where they are
• - Manages multiple, complex, and competing priorities

Benefits

• We are proud to offer a competitive & valuable benefits package that enables you to protect your health, your family, and your way of life. It includes best-in-class medical & dental insurance where Thermacell pays for 82.5% of the premiums. Thermacell pays for the first half of your medical deductible through our Health Reimbursement Account for PPO & EPO Plans as well as contributes to your Health Savings Account if you enroll in the HSA plan. Long & Short-term Disability & Group Term Life insurance is also available at no cost to you.
• Paid time off for this position will consist of accrued vacation at a competitive level, along with 11 Holidays and a day off for your Birthday ! 40 hours of wellness time is also available on your first day of employment. Additionally, a company shutdown period is offered for one week between Christmas and New Year’s Day where the majority of business operations pause, and employees are encouraged to rest and recover together. Critical functions may require limited coverage to ensure business continuity.
• Additionally, you will have access to a variety of additional benefits such as vision, supplemental life, critical illness, Medical Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, accident, SecureSave savings account, Employee Assistance Program, product benefit, wellness benefit, financial coaching, Voluntary Legal Plan and pet insurance for your furry family members! You can find all these details and more in our benefits guide along with additional discounts. You will be eligible for the employer 401K match up to 5% after completing 30 days of employment.