Art Director

Location: New York, NY (2 days in office per week)

Who We Are: Banza reimagines your favorite comfort foods, like pasta, pizza, mac & cheese, and waffles, using chickpeas. Why? Because we know chickpeas aren’t just delicious, they’re also one of the most nutritious and sustainable foods. Yet 80% of the country isn’t eating enough of them. Our mission is to inspire people to eat more chickpeas and other beans, making a positive impact on human health and the environment. Banza is the fastest-growing pasta brand in the country, and our products are available in 27,000 stores nationwide. We’ve been named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of the Year, Adweek’s Best Food Brand, and are proud to have fans at Good Morning America, The New York Times, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and more.

Your Mission:

As Banza’s Art Director, you’ll lead our visual identity across all brand touchpoints. You’ll steward internal design direction, manage a team of freelancers, and partner with Brand, eCommerce, Owned, and Media teams to deliver cohesive, high-impact creative. From packaging to paid media, you’ll blend creative vision with strong organization and time management to bring a consistent vision of our brand to life.

What You’ll Do:

Design & Brand Stewardship

• Design packaging for innovation and renovation projects.
• Lead the visual identity of the brand, maintaining cohesion across all touchpoints and be responsible for maintaining our brand style guidelines.
• Oversee the development of social assets for owned channels in collaboration with the Brand team.
• Support the Media and eCommerce teams with best-in-class design for paid social, display, email, PDP, and web landing pages.

Project Management

• Manage timelines, deliverables, and feedback for all creative projects
• Collaborate cross-functionally to facilitate alignment on creative priorities and brand consistency.
• Manage budgets for efficiency and effectiveness.

External Team Leadership

• Manage a desk of freelance designers, illustrators, and video editors, owning their workflows, creative briefs, and feedback processes.
• Manage project workflows and design process for packaging and visual asset development.
• Recruit and onboard new designers as needed
• Provide advisory support to creative AOR on campaign development

Who You Are

• 5+ years of relevant design experience, ideally at a consumer brand or creative agency.
• Versatile portfolio spanning packaging, digital, and print
• Strong grasp of creative workflows and multitasking across projects
• Clear communicator with a confident creative POV
• Collaborative, curious, and solutions-oriented; thrives with marketers, founders, executives, and creatives alike
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma, and motion/video production tools.
• Must be local to NY office and willing to work onsite 2 days per week
• Passionate about what Banza’s doing!

To Apply: Write a cover letter describing why you want to join Banza and why you would be an excellent fit for this role (yes, we actually read every cover letter!) and then apply directly to this posting. Don't forget to include the link to your portfolio!

We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Banza.

Compensation: Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geographical location and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall within the range based on these factors. The salary band for this role is $95,000-$120,000. The range is for the expectations as laid out in the job description; however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles and locations. Any updates to the salary range or considerations based on your experience and location will be communicated to you as a candidate.

Perks and Benefits:

• Equity in Banza
• Annual Bonus
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance starting day 1: Banza pays 80% of the monthly premiums for employees and 70% for dependents
• One Medical Membership
• Short Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Commuter Benefits
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off: 20 vacation days, 10 holidays, 6 sick days, 2 personal days, and a birthday day off
• Extended Leave: Short-Term Disability, Parental Leave, and other Paid Family Leave. Support provided by our end-to-end leave management partner, Sparrow
• New Parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave plus additional optional leave time to add, and 4 weeks of flexible return to work arrangements.
• Breast milk shipping service for traveling team members provided by Milk Stork
• Monthly fitness, internet and phone stipends
• Monthly lunch stipend to encourage team member connection
• Annual education stipend
• Home office set-up stipend
• Unlimited Pasta, Rice & Mac
• $500 annual stipend to purchase our pizza and waffles, wherever they're sold
• Quarterly snack box for remote employees
• Lively NYC office stocked with snacks and beverages
• Quarterly in-person and remote events

Our Commitment: Banza is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of inspiring people to eat more chickpeas and other beans, we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Facilitating diversity and inclusion is the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with all abilities, people of color, and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

Banza is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. Banza will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

Banza participates in E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. As a participating employer, we provide the federal government with Form I-9 information to verify work authorization. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov .

If you have any questions, please email jobs@eatbanza.com.