Creative Director

IJW Whiskey Company is a rapidly growing spirits company with a global footprint and a portfolio of premium brands. In this on-site role in Beverly Hills, you will own how IJW’s brands look and feel, turning brand strategy into distinctive creative work across campaigns, packaging, and sales materials. It is a hands‑on leadership position that blends personal design and production with direction for external partners, with a culture built for creative, fast‑paced collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve each brand’s visual identity, guidelines, and creative standards, keeping consumer brands distinct from one another and from IJW’s corporate identity.
• Translate brand positioning into campaign concepts and visual storytelling across consumer and trade channels.
• Direct photography, video, and other creative production, ensuring final deliverables reflect each brand’s positioning and audience.
• Personally design and produce digital and physical assets, including email, social advertising, website content, print collateral, and event materials.
• Partner with sales to create distributor presentations, sell sheets, retail displays, menus, and other materials that support placements and sales.
• Develop co-branded creative for key accounts and adapt campaigns to channel, market, and partner requirements.
• Build templates and maintain an accessible library of approved assets to enable efficient execution.
• Lead packaging and label design for new products, limited releases, and line extensions, from concepts and mock‑ups through production‑ready files.
• Create private‑label concepts and packaging for retail partners while maintaining clear differentiation from IJW‑owned brands.
• Collaborate with production, regulatory, and legal partners on labeling requirements and approvals, reviewing proofs and samples for quality and accuracy.
• Manage creative projects from briefing through approval and delivery, balancing daily requests with longer‑term brand development.
• Set priorities, timelines, and budgets, and direct agencies, freelancers, printers, and other production partners.
• Review and approve creative work, providing clear feedback to maintain consistent quality.
• Refine creative and resource use using campaign performance, sales input, and market feedback.

Requirements

• Spirits industry creative experience is required, gained in‑house or through an agency. Agency experience is valued.
• A strong portfolio showing brand identity, campaigns, packaging, and digital and physical assets, with range across accessible and premium or luxury positioning.
• Proven ability to develop concepts and personally execute finished work, supported by strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and relevant production tools.
• Hands‑on packaging and label design experience, including print production, file preparation, and proof review.
• Understanding of the spirits route to market and the creative needs of distributors, retailers, and on‑premise accounts.
• Familiarity with alcohol labeling and advertising requirements, plus experience collaborating with regulatory or legal teams.
• Experience managing external creative partners, budgets, and multiple projects across distinct brands.
• Strong creative judgment, attention to detail, and a collaborative approach to feedback, with the ability to connect design decisions to commercial goals.
• Experience building brands within a growing or entrepreneurial spirits business is preferred.

Benefits

• Attractive salary, benefits, and perks to reward top talent.

Salary: USD 175,000 per year.

Location: Beverly Hills, CA (onsite).

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