Creative Manager

Creative Manager ================ **Application Deadline:** 24 December 2026 **Department:** Marketing **Employment Type:** Full Time **Location:** North Hollywood, CA **Compensation:** $95,000 - $110,000 / year ### Description **Salary:**  $95,000-110,000/year **Type:**  Full Time, Monday - Friday **Location:**  North Hollywood, CA Onsite **Benefits:** Medical, Dental, Vision after 60 days **Mammoth Distribution** is one of California's leading cannabis distributors, home to top brands like **Heavy Hitters**, **Papa & Barkley**, and **Almora**. We're hiring a **Creative Manager** to set and elevate the creative standard across our brand portfolio — leading an in-house creative team and staying hands-on with the work across packaging, campaigns, retail, and experiential touchpoints. If you're a CPG creative leader who pairs a strong point of view with the discipline to ship polished, production-ready work on deadline, we want to hear from you. **What You'll Do** * Own and evolve the visual expression of the Mammoth portfolio brands, protecting what makes each one distinct while setting standards for typography, color, layout, photography, video, and packaging * Review priority creative before it ships, ensuring every asset is polished, accurate, channel-appropriate, and production-ready * Translate campaign strategy, product stories, consumer insight, and commercial priorities into clear visual concepts before execution begins * Partner closely with Marketing, brand leadership, and company leadership to understand the intent behind feedback and convert it into actionable creative direction * Present work with confidence and brevity — explain the idea, connect it to the objective, and recommend a clear path forward * Personally concept, design, refine, or art-direct high-visibility projects, guiding packaging, retail, digital, experiential, photography, and video creative from concept through final production * Give direct, specific feedback that improves hierarchy, storytelling, craft, and commercial clarity * Run a dependable workflow from brief through concept, review, production, approval, and handoff * Partner with Marketing and project management to prioritize work against business impact, deadlines, capacity, and dependencies * Build scalable templates, modular toolkits, file standards, and asset libraries that increase speed without making the work generic * Coach and develop designers through clear expectations, thoughtful assignments, and consistent critique * Surface tradeoffs early, manage stakeholder expectations, and protect the team from avoidable rework and unclear priorities **What You'll Bring** * CPG brand experience, with a portfolio demonstrating strong campaign thinking and brand-building across multiple channels * Hands-on packaging design experience, including the ability to guide work from concept through production-ready files * Experience leading or managing an in-house creative team in a fast-moving, multi-stakeholder environment * Advanced design craft and fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud, with the ability and willingness to personally contribute to the work * Experience art-directing photography and video, including briefing, pre-production, on-set direction, and post-production review * Experience in cannabis, wellness, beauty, beverage, lifestyle, or another regulated consumer category **Work Environment** * Based at our North Hollywood, CA headquarters, working closely with Marketing, brand leadership, and company ownership * Fast-paced, multi-brand environment that balances hands-on design work with team leadership and executive presentations **Compensation & Benefits** * $95- 110K/year * Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance – eligible after 60 days * Lead creative direction across an established, growing portfolio of recognized cannabis brands Also relevant if you have experience as: Creative Director, Associate Creative Director, Art Director, Design Manager, Brand Creative Manager, Packaging Design Manager, CPG Creative Lead, Creative Operations Manager, or Senior Graphic Designer. ### What We Bring Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance      Paid Company Holidays Paid Time Off                                          Employee Assistance Program Complimentary Life Coach