Head of Creative, Tattly

Company Description

At BIC®, we bring simplicity and joy to everyday life. Our Human Expression, Blade Excellence, and Flame for Life products create a sense of ease and delight in the millions of moments that make up the human experience. We reimagine everyday essentials that are present in over 4 million retail outlets in more than 160 countries around the world.

As we look to continue to evolve our Stationery business, expanding our Human Expression category with the addition of skin creative options, we are excited to have just recently acquired Tattly. Tattly is a U.S.-based maker of high-quality, artfully designed temporary tattoos. Tattly tattoos can be purchased online directly through their website or they can be found in a variety of stores such as Artist and Craftsman Supply, Posman Books, Kinokuniya Stores, Nordstrom, and many independent retailers throughout the US and Canada!

Tattly, which operates out of Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 2011 by Tina Roth-Eisenberg, a Swiss-born, trained graphic designer. Since then, the brand has grown meaningfully and received recognition and accolades from publications like The New York Times, Elle, Forbes, Vogue, Fast Company, to name just a few. By applying for a role with Tattly, you not only get the excitement and agility of working in a growing start-up organization, but the underlying strength and stability of the broader BIC organization, allowing you to leverage the foundation and scale of an established brand and company – truly the best of both worlds!

You can learn more about Tattly’s story (and check out their amazing products) by visiting www.tattly.com.

Job Description

We are looking to find a driven, joyful leader to join our team! The Head of Creative is a highly skilled, resourceful, and conceptual leader. They ensure the Tattly vision and brand are cohesive, consistent, and true to the Tattly aesthetic and feeling. They are responsible for the creative leadership and process management of our visual presentation, the tone of our copy and content, and for product development. Their role is critical to maintaining the brand’s identity and image both in the retail marketplace and in digital spaces. They possess elevated soft skills that enable them to inspire creativity and work well with different personality types - all while leading project executions to deadline.

• Ensure Tattly remains an inspiration as it grows. Oversee and help evolve the Tattly brand in every channel
• Lead, inspire and direct the creative process from concept to implementation. Coach and evaluate a junior designer in the execution of prescribed designs to our brand standards
• Shape brand standards and create procedures to ensure all products and consumer-facing assets are brand appropriate. Maintain exceptionally high standards for all creative team output
• Work closely with the founder, the Head of Tattly and Tattly’s Head of Sales to grow the product roster with successful extensions and ensure Tattly remains true to its origins
• Oversee all timelines, deliverables, and budgets to ensure profitability. Understand the business side of design
• Develop or guide exceptional and well-crafted copy that speaks to the Tattly customer
• Manage and cultivate the career development of a direct report and maximize their talent and the talents of external creative partners
• Lead planning, interpretation and development of the visual style and overall layout of marketing and sales collateral. This includes a wholesale catalog, store signage, POP, promotional materials, event materials, emails, print advertising, website, and social media execution
• For Tattly Digital, lead or develop and provide assets and tools for new creative concepts, develop creative ideas and graphical treatments, website, presentations, graphics, and other sales tools
• Lead maintenance of Tattly.com creative assets and liaise with the Head of Operations and Head of Tattly to achieve Ecomm strategies
• Work closely with the wholesale and custom department to develop visual marketing and partnership material and ensure brand consistency
• Lead heart- centered and clear artist communication and meticulously organize and maintain all artist assets and contracts
• Contribute to the overall creative spark of the team by teaching us about relevant trends and pro-actively sharing ideas to foster evolution within the team
• Ideate and oversee all product photography and photo shoots including e-commerce shots, marketing photography and lifestyle photography
• Support the creative aspects of client pitches and proposals
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to achieve Tattly’s goals

Qualifications

• A strong breadth of work, showing polished examples of real-world projects
• Strong typography and overall conceptual skills
• Serious excitement for the world of design, art and illustration and an eye for trend
• A skilled and natural wordsmith
• Mastery of core AdobeCreativeSuite products and an interest in learning new tools as needed
• Strong conceptual thinking and the ability to clearly communicate abstract creative concepts
• Leadership DNA and the desire and experience to help mentor  team members in their creative growth 
• A healthy confidence combined with the ability to check your ego at the door
• A strategic thinker who can be comfortable with ambiguity
• Stellar communication, presentation, problem-solving and project-management skills and the ability to effectively allocate resources
• E-commerce history and gift/home product and packaging design experience are both pluses

Additional Information

BIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with differeational origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

BIC is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email, or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.