Hey there! We’re Driven Coffee Roasters, a craft coffee roaster based out of Chanhassen, MN. 

Our vision is to be the best relationship-focused coffee company in the world. Every cup we roast, every conversation we have, and every partnership we build is fueled by that purpose. We have an amazing team with an even better culture, we love to work hard, have fun, and never settle for good enough. 

Summary 

The Creative & Content Manager is responsible for bringing our brands and products to life across everything our customers see and experience. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who loves creating, from graphic design and packaging to social content, email, photography, website creative, and everything in between. 

You’ll have the opportunity to work across our three brands, including Driven Coffee, Voyager Snacks, and our newly launched Donezos snack line. You’ll also play an important creative role as we bring Driven Coffee into retail with the opening of our first café in 2027. 

We’re looking for someone who can take a brand strategy, campaign idea, business need, or sometimes just a rough concept and turn it into polished creative and content. You’ll have broad ownership of how that work gets executed and will be expected to personally create much of what our customers ultimately see. 

What Success Looks Like 

The right person for this role combines strong creative instincts with the ability to actually make things. You’ll likely thrive here if you: 

• Have strong visual instincts and care about the details that make a brand feel cohesive 
• Are highly proficient with professional design tools and enjoy spending time doing hands-on creative work 
• Can take an idea from concept through finished design without needing significant outside creative support 
• Are comfortable creating across different formats, including packaging, digital, print, social, email, web, photography, and content 
• Understand how to take a broad strategy and translate it into compelling creative 
• Can create polished work while also moving quickly when the business needs something now 
• Embrace AI and emerging creative tools to accelerate ideation, expand creative possibilities, and produce better work more efficiently 
• Are resourceful and willing to figure things out when you encounter something you haven’t done before 
• Take ownership of projects and can move from an ambiguous idea to a polished finished product 

Key Responsibilities 

Creative & Brand Execution: Bring our brands to life across customer touchpoints while maintaining a consistent visual identity, voice, and overall brand experience. 

Graphic Design & Packaging: Create digital and print materials, product packaging, labels, signage, sales collateral, and other creative assets from concept through production. 

Content Creation: Create engaging content across social media, email, websites, and other channels, including graphics, photography, short-form video, copy, and other customer-facing content. 

Campaign Execution: Take established campaign goals, messaging, and direction and translate them into the creative and content needed across social, email, website, retail, and other channels. 

Social, Email & Web: Help manage the ongoing creative and content needs of our social channels, email marketing, and websites, including maintaining content calendars and keeping each channel fresh and on-brand. 

Sales & Business Support: Support wholesale, retail, and other areas of the business with collateral, presentations, signage, product materials, and other customer-facing creative needs. 

Skills 

Graphic Design: Strong visual design skills with the ability to personally create polished, production-ready creative. 

Adobe Creative Suite: High proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and other professional design and creative tools. 

Content Creation: Ability to personally create engaging content across social, email, web, and other digital channels. 

Brand Execution: Ability to understand an established brand strategy and translate it into consistent visual and written communication. 

AI & Emerging Creative Tools: Comfortable using AI-powered tools to accelerate the creative process while maintaining a consistent brand standard. 

Creative Judgment: Strong instincts around visual communication, content, and what makes creative effective for a particular audience or channel. 

Resourcefulness: Comfortable learning new tools, solving unfamiliar creative problems, and figuring out how to get things done. 

Communication: Ability to collaborate across teams, understand business needs, and turn ideas into effective creative. 

Organization: Ability to manage multiple creative projects, deadlines, files, content calendars, and production requirements simultaneously. 

Qualifications 

Required 

• 2 to 5 years of relevant creative, design, content, or marketing experience 
• Professional graphic design experience with a strong foundation in brand and visual design 
• High proficiency with professional design tools, including Adobe Creative Suite 
• A portfolio demonstrating strong graphic design and creative work 
• Experience personally creating content for digital channels such as social media, email, and websites 
• Experience taking creative projects from initial concept through final, production-ready execution 
• Ability to independently create and prepare designs for both digital and print applications 

Preferred 

• Product and/or lifestyle photography experience 
• Short-form video creation and editing experience 
• Experience with product packaging, labels, and print production 
• Experience creating social media content 
• Experience working with consumer brands or food and beverage products  

Work Environment and Schedule 

• Full time in person at our headquarters in Chanhassen, MN 
• Standard business hours are 8 – 4:30 Monday through Friday 
• Reports to: Executive Leadership 

Growth Opportunities 

As our first dedicated marketing hire, you’ll have the opportunity to help build the marketing and creative function from the ground up. You won’t be stepping into an established department or simply executing an existing playbook. You’ll have a meaningful role in shaping what comes next. 

As Driven Coffee, Voyager Snacks, and our other brands grow, this role will grow with them. You’ll have the opportunity to take on greater ownership of brand and marketing strategy, help shape the direction of new products and concepts, and eventually build and lead a team around you. 

For the right person, this is an opportunity to help define the next stage of our growth, drive the creative strategy behind it, and build a marketing organization that reflects the direction you helped shape. 

Benefits 

• Total Compensation Range: $40,000 - $50,000 DOE 
• Health Insurance 
• Dental Insurance 
• 401K Retirement Plan with 3% match 

Caffeine Perks

• 5lbs/month of fresh roasted coffee for personal use 
• Employee discount on merch and brew supplies 
• Daily access to coffee and espresso drinks 
• Learn more about the world of coffee 

About Driven Coffee 

We’re on a mission to inspire people to discover their potential through purposeful coffee and genuine connections. As a people-focused company, our vision is to be the best relationship-focused coffee company in the world. Every cup we roast, every conversation we have, and every partnership we build is fueled by that purpose. Want to know more before going any further? Check out this short video of who we are! 

Core Values 

• Growth: Continuously improve and get comfortable in the uncomfortable 
• Grit: Face challenges head on, always persevere 
• Team First Mentality: Seek opportunities to help others and anticipate their needs 
• Approachability: Be kind, generous, welcoming, and humble experts 
• Integrity: Do what we say we are going to do, with purpose