Art Manager

Comfrt

1d•Remote

About The Position

Comfrt is a direct-to-consumer brand focused on mental wellness, inclusivity, and elevated comfort. The Art Manager will help define and evolve the brand’s visual language across product categories, partnering closely with Design leaders to develop a distinctive, cohesive, and recognizable aesthetic. The role spans graphics, print, pattern, branding, packaging, and storytelling across apparel, home, accessories, and future lifestyle categories. The Art Manager will develop seasonal collections and visual stories, as well as creative assets for collaborations, licensed collections, and co-branded partnerships. The role works with cross-functional teams and vendors from concept through production, ensuring artwork is executed accurately across materials and application techniques. This is a fully remote position in a supportive, collaborative creative environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Illustration, Fine Arts, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience in graphic design, art direction, apparel graphics, or brand design.
Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Strong eye for color, composition, typography, layout, and concept development.
Ability to build and maintain a consistent visual brand aesthetic across multiple product categories.
Strong understanding of graphic, print, embroidery, appliqué, embellishment, wash, dye, and specialty application techniques across apparel and home products.
Experience developing branding systems, seasonal graphic languages, and visual storytelling across collections.
Experience creating graphics, branding, and artwork for collaborations, licensed products, and co-branded partnerships.
Understanding of factory production capabilities and application methods, with the ability to problem-solve during development and support execution from concept through production.
Versatile artwork range, including expressive illustrations, all-over prints, logos, typography, and minimal graphics.
Strong organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
Ability to work autonomously, take project ownership, and thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Strong presentation, communication, and creative storytelling skills.
Collaborative, positive approach to cross-functional teamwork.
Portfolio required, showcasing apparel graphics, branding, typography, print and pattern development, packaging, collaboration work, and concept development.

Nice To Haves

Experience in apparel, lifestyle, home, or consumer brands.

Responsibilities

Partner with Design Directors to define, evolve, and maintain Comfrt’s visual identity across product categories.
Create original graphics, artwork, branding systems, prints, patterns, typography, and seasonal visual concepts for apparel, home, accessories, packaging, and future lifestyle products.
Lead the development of seasonal graphic stories that create a cohesive visual language across collections.
Design branding, logos, artwork, and creative assets for collaborations, licensed collections, and co-branded partnerships while keeping them authentically Comfrt.
Develop graphics across apparel categories, including logo, licensed, non-logo, placement, repeat, novelty, and specialty graphics.
Design packaging, trims, labels, hangtags, and other branded customer touchpoints.
Collaborate with Product Design, Production, Marketing, Brand, and Creative teams to take concepts from initial idea through final production.
Research and interpret fashion, graphic, cultural, home, art, and lifestyle trends, including through social listening.
Maintain an understanding of the Comfrt customer, brand positioning, and marketplace while helping establish a recognizable visual point of view.
Develop artwork with consideration for its translation across materials, fabrication techniques, and product categories.
Partner with factories and cross-functional teams to provide artwork direction and ensure graphic execution, print quality, scale, placement, and application methods align with design intent.
Communicate with vendors, review strike-offs, and provide timely feedback to ensure accurate artwork execution.
Maintain organized digital artwork libraries, seasonal assets, and brand graphic archives.
Present creative concepts, seasonal directions, and graphic stories to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.