Creative Operations Manager, The Farmer's Dog
$105-120k
Plus equity
4-5 days a week in office
Human-grade dog food delivery
Be an early applicant
Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$105-120k
Plus equity
4-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
Role
Who you are
- You have 4+ years in creative operations and/or project management in a creative agency, in house creative team or marketing function
- You are able to balance multiple priorities and tasks with ease
- You are comfortable adapting as project parameters expand and/or change
- You are familiar with project management tools such as Asana and Notion. You know how to create project templates, build dashboards and seek to improve and streamline current processes
- You have Google Suite and Google Calendar experience, DAM systems+ other project management tools
- You are able to build strong cross-functional relationships, effectively facilitate discussions and drive consensus
- You're a skilled communicator and have the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms to drive decision making
- You are detail-oriented and proactive, you thrive as a self-starter and excel in managing multiple projects simultaneously
- You are an owner, have excellent problem-solving skills and can prioritize tasks effectively
- As a bonus, you have a creative background and familiarity with design tools and systems
- You’re a true dog person - even if you don’t have one!
What the job involves
- The Creative Operations Manager will play a crucial role in setting The Farmer's Dog creative group up for success and ensuring our brand is seamlessly brought to life across all channels and touchpoints
- In this role, you will be an integral part of our creative development process in our Brand group -- ensuring all of our work is produced with agility, quality, and in accordance with brand standards
- Reporting into the VP, Production, you will be working alongside a best-in-class (and Emmy-nominated!) in-house creative group. The work you help create will help grow our business and our brand, and will help dogs everywhere live healthier, happier lives
- Serve as the dedicated driver for new product launches, partnering closely with New Product leads to gather requirements, define scope and build our comprehensive timelines and project plans for the Brand and Marketing teams
- Translate complex product and launch requirements into clear, actionable creative briefs and project roadmaps, ensuring the Brand, Marketing and Studio teams always know what’s needed, when it’s needed and why it matters
- Own cross-functional alignment between the New Product, Marketing and Brand teams; proactively surfacing dependencies, flagging risks and driving decisions to keep launches on track
- Schedule, lead and facilitate project meetings including launch kick-offs, creative reviews, cross-functional check-ins and retrospectives; capturing key decisions, organizing follow-ups and distributing clear recaps so all team members have the information they need
- Manage project timelines and resource allocations, ensuring the right people are assigned to the right work and that the objectives, milestones and completion dates are clearly communicated and up to date
- Serve as the main point of contact between project stakeholders and the Brand and Studio teams; fielding, vetting and routing cross-functional requests to keep work moving
- Serve as the main point of contact for external agency partners and vendors working on new product and projects
- Optimize and maintain Brand’s project management workflows, adapting them to meet the changing demands of our projects, across brand tools (Asana, Notion, etc), with a focus on supporting new product and workstreams
- Think outside of the box and leverage emerging technologies to innovate the way project problems get solved
- Support the VP, Production & Creative Operations in developing and refining project management tools and processes for the Brand department
- Partner with the Studio team Producer and Creative Operations Manager to ensure all assets related to new product and launches are properly organized and archived in the digital asset database
Our take
Pet food production in the US is held to alarmingly low safety and quality standards despite being a $99 billion industry, which is hidden behind loose labeling and marketing regulations. When one of the founders of The Farmer's Dog realised that dog food was making his dog sick, they decided that dogs shouldn't be fed anything that wouldn't pass legal requirements for humans.
The Farmer’s Dog produces customised dog food packages that are sent as a regular subscription service. Recipes behind the dog food are personalised and are comprised of natural and high-quality ingredients, aiming to meet the dietary requirements of each individual dog. As the dog food is human-grade, the company even taste-tests its recipes on humans.
The startup sends millions of meals every month and boasts a continual subscription rate of almost 50%. It has raised $60 million in funding to date and is developing new pet food products and scaling to offer its subscription service outside of the US.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2021
$65m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
SERIES C
Total funding: $168.1m
Company benefits
- Dog-friendly offices
- Equity packages
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401k match
- 12-week paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO and work-from-home policy
- Discounted fresh dog food
- Your pet interrupting video calls and in-person meetings is now a feature, not a bug
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Jonathan Yoni Regev
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated in Business at Berkeley, UC, and then co-founded The Farmer's Dog in 2014, serving as CEO since.
Brett Podolsky
(Co-Founder)Graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Lynn University before co-founding The Farmer's Dog.
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