Department: Ben & Jerry’s Global Integrated Marketing
Reports To: Ben & Jerry’s Global Head of Integrated Marketing
Location: South Burlington, VT, Hybrid, 3 days in-office
Ben & Jerry’s is looking for our next Global Creative Director — a role that leads the creative vision, storytelling, and design systems that bring our products, purpose, and fan love to life around the world.
This is a chance to shape the next chapter of Ben & Jerry’s creative expression — honoring what makes the brand beloved while evolving how it connects with fans, shows up in culture, and brings its three-part mission to life around the world.
You’ll help bring the brand to life across global campaigns, packaging, digital content, experiential moments, and fan‑love touchpoints — from surprise‑and‑delight experiences to the creative details that make Ben & Jerry’s unmistakable.
Who You Are
You’re a creative leader, storyteller, and brand builder who thrives at the intersection of culture, design, product, and purpose.
You know how to turn big ideas into meaningful work—and inspire teams to deliver creative that resonates globally.
At your core, you:
- Lead creative teams with clarity, energy, and a high bar for excellence
- Build brands that earn deep emotional connection and cultural relevance
- Translate strategy into powerful, insight‑driven creative
- Blend storytelling, design, and innovation across channels
- Stay ahead of culture and bring fresh thinking to every brief
- Believe creativity can spark joy and drive meaningful change
What You’ll Get to Do
As the Global Creative Director, you’ll sit within the Global Integrated Marketing team and work hand in hand with our Digital Marketing, Consumer Insights, and Marketing Innovation teams to meet the creative needs of the business across all global markets. You’ll shape and elevate Ben & Jerry’s creative expression worldwide, including:
Creative Strategy & Brand Stewardship
- Define and evolve the global creative vision, ensuring a distinctive and consistent brand experience across all channels, markets, and consumer touchpoints
- Translate business, consumer, and marketing insights into breakthrough creative strategies and campaigns that drive brand growth and engagement
- Champion brand excellence while balancing innovation, cultural relevance, and commercial impact
- Lead, develop, and inspire a high‑performing global creative team, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Mentor talent and build capabilities that position the organization for future growth
- Partner with cross‑functional leaders across Marketing, Innovation, Consumer Insights, Digital, and Commercial teams to align creative priorities and business goals
- Influence senior stakeholders and align creative priorities with brand growth and innovation strategies
Creative Operations & Execution
- Oversee the end‑to‑end creative development process across brand packaging, digital, social, retail, and experiential channels
- Ensure creative work is strategically aligned, insight‑driven, and executed to the highest standards of craft
- Establish efficient workflows, governance, and operating models that enable speed, consistency, and quality
- Manage budgets, agency partnerships, and creative resources to maximize impact and effectiveness
- Maintain a high standard of craft across design, typography, and visual execution
- Ensure best‑in‑class creative execution across digital, physical, and experiential formats
What Makes This Role Unique
At Ben & Jerry’s, creative is more than how things look — it’s how we build emotional connection, spark joy, invite fans in, and bring our values to life.
This role sits at the center of product, purpose, culture, and community, shaping work that is unmistakably Ben & Jerry’s across markets, moments, and channels.
It is a unique opportunity to help define how the brand shows up next while staying grounded in the joy, values, and activist spirit that have made it iconic.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of creative leadership experience
- Expertise across brand, content, and integrated marketing
- Experience leading and developing high‑performing teams
- Strong creative instincts paired with strategic thinking
- Ability to navigate complexity in a global environment
- A passion for purpose‑driven, values‑led brand building
What You Can Expect
- A unique mix of global scale & start‑up spirit – €7.9 billion powerhouse with an agile, entrepreneurial mindset
- Growth and global opportunity — 42 markets, international exposure, and the chance to help shape a growing standalone ice cream company
- A culture built on impact — freedom to act, challenge convention, and grow while measuring success by meaningful results. A company that celebrates joy, innovation, and purpose. We create extraordinary careers, just like our ice cream creates extraordinary moments.
- The opportunity to create fan‑loved moments — from custom labels and surprise‑and‑delight experiences to creative work that builds connection with communities around the world.
- Hybrid workplace (3+ days/week in office)
- Dog‑friendly office environment
- Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous vacation/holiday pay, 401(k) Retirement, discount programs
- Learning and development programs
- Access to our gym at headquarters and the local area
- 3 free pints a day!
- Travel required approximately 15% of the time
Our People Profile
- Purpose‑driven: passion and drive to make a real impact with our social mission agenda
- Empathy: curious to collaborate with a variety of personalities and styles and to build excellent relationships with internal & external stakeholders
- Mastery: continuously learn and develop to remain an expert in your functional area
- Autonomy: dare to make choices and take ownership
- Activism: interested in bringing about political or social change
- Equity: recognizing power dynamics and how biases play out in interactions throughout society; this awareness and these skills are necessary so that throughout our business we engage respectfully and make decisions fairly
Pay
The pay range for this position is $119,360 to $186,500.
#J-18808-Ljbffr