The Farmer's Dog

The Farmer's Dog

Director, Packaging

New York, New York, United States · Director

Sponsorship not specified$30k-$50kDetected 22 days ago
ComplianceExcelSupply ChainProcess ImprovementPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingFood SafetyLean Manufacturing

About the role

  • One Team: We don't think of ourselves as "Acquisition Marketers", "Engineers", "Data Analysts", or "Product Managers".
  • Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don't think departments matter.
  • We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is.

Responsibilities

  • Own the packaging roadmap: prioritize initiatives, align stakeholders, and ensure the team is focused on the highest-impact work at every stage of growth.
  • Define and build scalable packaging engineering standards - qualification protocols, print approval processes, retained sample programs, shelf-life testing frameworks, and supplier quality requirements.
  • Drive design recommendations backed by competitive benchmarking, consumer insight, and technical rigor; make the call when tradeoffs arise and align the organization on direction.
  • Lead packaging trials and validation runs at co-manufacturers and suppliers; own technical outcomes and ensure findings are clearly documented and communicated to leadership.
  • Build and manage strong relationships with external packaging suppliers, print vendors, and contract manufacturers - driving accountability for quality, cost, and timeline.
  • Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to align on production windows, material lead times, and inventory requirements across launches and ongoing production.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing packaging engineering team - setting clear goals, providing direct and caring feedback, and creating a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
  • Mentor engineers on technical skills, project ownership, and cross-functional communication - developing the next generation of packaging leaders at TFD.
  • Partner at a senior level with Product Development, Brand, Creative, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain - serving as the packaging function's voice in strategic decisions.
  • Maintain thorough documentation of designs, test results, and project milestones to support traceability, knowledge sharing, and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

  • You are fluent in both structural and graphic packaging execution and know how to navigate ambiguity without losing momentum.

Compensation

  • Market-competitive compensation and equity packages

Benefits

  • The Farmer's Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
  • Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.
  • Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
  • Company supported mental health benefits
  • 12 week paid parental leave

Company info

  • The Farmer's Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We're starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers' doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
  • To date, The Farmer's Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.
  • #LongLiveDogs
  • What We Stand For and Where You'll Come In
  • We're starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers' doors.
  • Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
  • The Farmer's Dog is growing fast - and our packaging needs to keep pace.
  • This is a high-ownership role for a technically excellent engineer who is equally comfortable building strategy and rolling up their sleeves on the plant floor.
  • You will be a key technical partner across Product Development, Design, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain - driving packaging from concept through commercial launch with speed, rigor, and a clear point of view.
  • We'd rather align ourselves to the goals we're working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact.
  • We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER - getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically.
  • We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren't tied to our own.
  • We proactively source input.
  • We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there's a better or more impactful way to solve problems.
  • We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention.
  • We answer questions and address problems early and proactively.
  • We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically.
  • We Execute For Impact: We don't subscribe to "best practices" or "industry KPIs".
  • We're uninterested in how we compare to "benchmarks"; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be.
  • Similarly, we don't subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles - i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience.
  • We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We are not beholden to ideas.
  • We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate.
  • To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel.

Equal opportunity

  • The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexua
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