As Sr. Specialist of Events & Experience, Philo-Marie oversees events, culture, and employee recognition at ButcherBox. Stadium was already running the swag store and new hire kits, but custom swag requests didn’t have a process, or one consistent flow when it came to the demands of the people operations team.
Orders lived in two places, with no visibility into what was going out and when.
Before anything else, Philo-Marie needed every swag order to start from the same place, so she uploaded ButcherBox’s logos, brand guidelines, and assets directly into Stadium. “With our brand assets in one place, every order goes out looking consistent across teams. No guessing or back and forth.”
With its People Operations programs centralized, Philo-Marie started asking a different question: how else could Stadium support employee recognition? Rather than treating every recognition moment the same, ButcherBox expanded beyond branded swag to create a more personalized employee gifting experience. During the busy Black Friday and Cyber Monday season, the team introduced snack boxes to recognize and support remote employees. For other moments, employees received a budget to choose gifts they actually wanted. “Sometimes swag isn’t the right fit. A snack box lets people pick what they actually want, so the gift feels personal, not just branded.”
Swag and snack boxes were just the start. ButcherBox expanded its employee recognition program with milestone gifts for birthdays and work anniversaries, giving employees the flexibility to choose rewards that felt meaningful to them. The team also used Stadium to power recognition for one-off moments like trivia competitions, March Madness, and hackathons.
As the calendar filled up, she set up automations so nothing fell through the cracks, with new hire kits, work anniversaries, and employee gifts on autopilot.
“Once automations were running, new hire kits went out on their own, anniversaries didn’t get missed, and I wasn’t chasing anything down. Gifting happened.”
Before consolidating its People Operations swag programs, the team always had to figure out which platform each request belonged in. Now, they don’t have to.
Consolidating into Stadium meant brand consistency improved without extra effort, and automations took 1–2 hours of manual work off Philo-Marie’s plate every week. More than that, she had more ways to recognize people–the right gift for the right moment, not just whatever was easiest.
“I didn’t realize how much mental load came with managing two vendors until it was gone. Now I just go to Stadium.”
ButcherBox
Philo-Marie White
Sr. Specialist of Events & Experience
