Junior Art Director

At Freshpet, our goal is to change the way people nourish their pets forever. We strive to strengthen the bond between people and our pets so that we both live longer, healthier, and happier lives while being kind to the planet. We believe that if we can create fresh, real foods that pets love and help them live healthier lives that their pet parents will also enjoy the many benefits of a rich life shared with a pet.

We started off with a mission to change the way pet parents feed dogs and cats, but we also wanted to be a company that had a thoughtful approach to how we operate. We wanted to do things differently, make great products but be gentle to the planet, good to the people who touch our business, and leave a positive impact with everything we do. We work hard every day to ensure that the original vision is met, starting with making the highest quality foods in our kitchens to running our business with integrity, transparency, and social and environmental responsibility. As a result, we are nearing $1B in net sales and have experienced 25%+ growth rates year-over-year for the last 6 years.

What You Will Do

Junior Digital Art Director – The Junior Art Director will work to support the ongoing efforts of the creative team with the goal to build brand recognition through consistent, and high quality creative. This role will function as a general brand designer, and support across all digital creative touchpoints of the business.

How You Will Make An Impact

• We are looking for exceptional creative skills, with the ability to quickly understand and work with our creative brand style. Ability to track and identify design trends and competitors to ensure relevancy. Ability to flex into many different design disciplines.
• Exceptional fundamental skills are imperative; organization, ability to work on multiple projects, self-starting, teamwork, communication, strategic thinking, and creative problem solving.
• Collaborate with team members to develop strong preforming paid social campaign creative, including video, GIFs, and static ads for Meta, Pinterest, YouTube, Google, etc.
• Complete end-to-end support of photo and video shoots, from initial planning and shooting, through to postproduction. Concepting and story-boarding experience is a plus.
• Support of Freshpet.com site design through our CMS and Figma. Ability to create landing pages, and other site needs.
• Collaborate and support brand managers with creative assets for ecommerce, sales needs, print marketing for in-store retailers, and more.
• Own miscellaneous creative needs including event & tradeshow design, branded swag, email marketing, and more.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• A portfolio demonstrating relative work
• 3-5 years of experience in design, with a focus on digital. CPG experience is a plus
• Proficiency in Adobe creative suite, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Aftereffects
• Strong experience in creative digital marketing i.e.. paid & organic social, email marketing, etc.
• Proficiency in Figma
• Proficiency in Asana, or similar project management software
• Must be able to commute to Bedminster, NJ, with the ability to work in-office two days a week. Ability to travel 5%, if needed.
• As of June 2025, our new headquarters in Bedminster will include a doggie daycare and grooming. Dogs welcome!

What We Offer

At Freshpet, we offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package, including medical, dental and vision insurance, basic and optional life insurance, short- and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts, and a 401(k) plan with company match, paid parental leave, pet insurance, tuition assistance, a generous PTO plan and so much more!

Our Commitment To a Diverse Workforce

At Freshpet, we embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, sex, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Freshpet aims to foster, cultivate and preserve a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our employees are our most valuable assets. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well. Freshpet is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Disclaimers

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Freshpet is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Freshpet via-email, the Internet or in any form

and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Freshpet. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Freshpet as a result of the referral or through other means.