Senior Director, Portfolio Creative & Design

About Dsc In 2011, Dollar Shave Club didn’t just shake up the shaving aisle—we reinvented it. A viral video put us on the map, and our direct-to-consumer model challenged an entire industry by making great razors accessible, affordable, and actually fun to buy. Since then, we’ve grown far beyond blades. From grooming to personal care, we’ve built a lineup of quality essentials designed to make life easier (and smoother), whether you find us online or in stores near you. Today, DSC is expanding into new categories and new markets, but our DNA hasn’t changed. We’re still here to cut the BS, deliver real value, and bring a little humor to the everyday routine. So what are you waiting for? Join the Club. The Creative Mandate We now run two brands that serve two genuinely different people. DSC talks to the value-seeking, performance-first shopper — blunt, funny, no bougie, stop paying for the extra. Truly talks to the experiential, community-led beauty consumer — gourmand, bold, joyful, creator-fed. Both are loved for being unmistakably themselves. The consumer should never see the seam. Two brands, two voices, no rebranding and no dilution of either identity. Behind the curtain, though, there is enormous leverage to find: shared design capability, shared packaging discipline, shared ways of working, and a shared standard for what good looks like. Holding both of those truths at once — rigorous separation on the front end, deliberate synergy on the back end — is the job. Role Summary We are looking for a Sr. Portfolio Director, Creative & Design to lead all brand creative across the DSC portfolio. You will own how both brands show up to consumers: the concepts, the voice, the design language, the packaging, and the standard. You will lead two creative teams and the brand voice function — the DSC creative team, the Truly creative team, and our Brand Voice owner — with Creative Directors and Associate Creative Directors reporting to you. You will report directly to the Chief Brand & Innovation Officer. This is a lead-through-others role that has not stopped being a maker’s role. You will still be in the room concepting. But your primary output is direction, judgment, and standard — and your primary discipline is restraint. These teams are fast, scrappy, and produce the overwhelming majority of their content in-house without an agency. That is an asset, not a problem to be solved with process. The best version of this hire raises the ceiling on the work without slowing it down or making it look like it came from the same place. Responsibilities Set and drive strategic creative direction across both brands — the ideas, the standard, and the through-line from brand strategy to executed workLead, coach, and grow the creative organization: Creative Directors, Associate Creative Directors, designers, copy, and social content — across both brands and the Brand Voice functionProtect each brand’s distinctiveness. Ensure DSC and Truly remain unmistakably separate to the consumer in voice, design language, and casting, with no drift toward a house styleOwn brand voice consistency for both brands across every channel — paid, owned, earned, retail, packaging, and site — in partnership with the Brand Voice ownerLean into concept and ideation personally on the moments that matter most: platform work, launches, and tentpole campaignsKeep a pulse on culture/competitive trends in both personal care and grooming for DSC and Beauty for Truly to continue to be on the cutting edge of fashion, social, digital and marketing trendsPartner with CBIO on packaging portfolio strategy and design across both portfolios — architecture, hierarchy, shelf impact, and the finish and quality the consumer is paying forDefine how products come to life across every portfolio and channel, from PDP through retail shelf, and build the creative toolkits that let channels execute without re-briefingIdentify and capture synergy behind the scenes — shared capability, tooling, production, design systems, and standards — without letting it surface as sameness in the workPartner with Brand Management on briefs, ensuring creative is engaged early enough to shape strategy rather than decorate itPartner with Channel, Retail, and Amazon leads so creative is built for where it actually runsSet the bar for creative quality and hold it, including the hard conversations, while leaving teams the autonomy to get there their own wayBuild the operating rhythm for creative review — fast, clear, decisive, and light enough that it does not become a bottleneckChampion our AI-native creative stack, expanding what the team can produce and test while keeping the ideas and the humor human-ledManage creative resourcing, prioritization, and contractor and partner relationships against portfolio prioritiesRepresent creative to the executive team and the Board, and make the case for the work Requirements 10+ years of creative experience, including 3+ years leading creative leaders — Creative Directors or Associate Creative Directors reporting to youA portfolio that shows range across brands and voices, not one signature style applied repeatedlyExperience leading creative for more than one brand or distinct audience simultaneouslyDeep concepting credibility — you still generate ideas, not only judge themDemonstrated ownership of brand voice and design systems across channelsHands-on packaging and structural design experience, including portfolio architecture and retail shelf considerationsExperience across both brand and performance creative, and comfort with the volume and velocity social-first channels demandBackground in beauty, personal care, grooming, or comparable consumer categories strongly preferred; experience across both male- and female-skewed brands is a significant plusAgency and in-house experience is ideal; you understand the tradeoffs of eachFluency with AI-enabled creative tools and a point of view on where they help and where they flatten the workProven ability to raise quality inside a scrappy, high-velocity team without adding weight — track record of protecting a team’s culture, not standardizing itExcellent communicator and persuasive presenter, able to sell the work to executives, retailers, and skepticsComfortable with ambiguity, integration work, and a portfolio that is still taking shape Position Type This is a full-time exempt position. Work Environment This position is in-office, working out of our HQ in Durham, North Carolina 3x a week. Salary $210,000 - $235,000 + Bonus Benefits Comprehensive benefit plans with low premium options, including medical, dental and vision coverage, along with supplemental coverage optionsFree life insurance, short term disability and long term disability401(k) plan with a company match of 100% of the first 2%, and 50% of up to an additional 4% with no vesting periodUnlimited vacation and generous sick timeHalf day Fridays year-round (subject to business needs)12 weeks of fully paid parental leave4 weeks of fully paid disability leaveFree Dollar Shave Club ProductsMonthly cell phone stipend Application Process All applications must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System, Greenhouse, in order to be considered. Once you submit your application, the recruiting team will review your submission and will reach out if your skill sets and/or qualifications match our needs. If selected, you’ll be invited to an initial phone screening interview with a recruiter before meeting with various members of the team. Candidates will be notified if they are not selected for the position. The position will remain open and we'll be accepting applications until the role is filled. Dollar Shave Club is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Reasonable Accommodation: Dollar Shave Club provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request in order to express interest in a position by e-mailing: accommodations@dollarshaveclub.com Please state your request for assistance in your message. 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