Art Director

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Eight Sleep is the first sleep fitness company. At Eight Sleep we design products at the forefront of sleep innovation. Our mission is to power human potential through better sleep, using innovative technology, detailed design, and proven science and data to personalize and improve each night for everybody—changing the way people sleep forever and for better. Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator, it was named by Fast Company in 2018 as one of the Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics.

We've just launched our temperature-regulated smart bed, the Pod. It's an absolute game changer, improving people's health and happiness by changing the way they sleep. Early feedback is great, but we still have a long way to go toward achieving our mission. 

Eight Sleep is looking for a talented Art Director to join the Creative team. This role will lead all aspects of visual storytelling, including campaign concepts, retail marketing, brand, and advertising. The ideal candidate has a strong design background and is interested in building a sleep fitness brand in the health and wellness category.

You’ll report directly to the VP of Brand and Marketing, and work from our headquarters in Flatiron, NYC.

How you'll contribute:

  • Own and evolve the brand visual identity, guidelines, and voice for multi-channel campaigns across all areas of the customer experience.
  • Ideate original, culturally-relevant concepts that strategically answer the brief and bring the brand to life, looking at every detail as an opportunity to delight our members.
  • Turn creative concepts into reality across all the interfaces of the Eight Sleep brand: web, social, packaging, email, advertising channels, retail, and the Eight Sleep app.
  • Partner closely with Brand Marketing, Growth and other key stakeholders throughout the business to develop effective creative that meets our cross-functional needs without sacrificing brand standards.
  • Direct photo and video shoots to ensure flawless execution of concept while always looking for opportunities to innovate in telling the Eight Sleep brand story.
  • Manage and hire a team of designers and partner with external creative teams to execute creative direction from concept to production and post-production.
  • Maintain standards and help evolve brand guidelines as we continue to grow into new markets, products, partnerships.
  • Utilize data insights to identify key areas for design evolution.
  • Think outside the box in bringing a sleep fitness brand to life.

What you'll need to succeed:

  • 5-8 years of creative team leadership experience with a brand background
  • Strong portfolio, with a proven track record of delivering successful design products to market and a sensibility for translating the design to multiple mediums
  • Experience managing and motivating internal and external creative teams
  • You have a passion for health and wellness, and high-performance sleep
  • You understand and love the Eight Sleep brand, voice, and mission. Expert at creating deliverables using tools including Sketch, Figma, Invision, Particle, and Adobe Suite
  • Excellent communication skills, able to present ideas clearly and persuasively
  • You are customer centric and an out-of-the-box thinker
  • You are a creative thinker with a passion for delivering outstanding design experiences
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master new skills

Why you'll love Eight Sleep:

  • We’re a tight-knit, passionate team that’s working to improve people’s lives
  • Leadership is committed to employees’ wellness and career development
  • You’ll get a better night sleep every night; all full-time employees receive the Pod
  • Flexible, generous PTO
  • 100% employer contribution for medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Discounted gym memberships, commuter benefits
  • Weekly team happy hours and lunches
  • Office snacks

At Eight Sleep we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our values by ensuring everyone feels they can flourish and grow. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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Our company is located in Nomad, surrounded by bars and restaurants, quick walk from a dozen trains.

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