Despite the enormous progress enabled by wide-field transient surveys in recent years, the census of core-collapse supernovae (CC SNe), even in the local 20 Mpc volume, is incomplete. Infrared (IR) searches, now systematically exploring the dynamic IR sky, offer an ideal platform to discover these missing stellar explosions. I will present recent results from the SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (SPIRITS), an ongoing search of nearby galaxies for transients in the Spitzer/IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 micron ([3.6] and [4.5]) imaging bands. We have discovered a sample of luminous IR transients that likely represent a population of nearby SNe completely missed by optical searches. Follow-up observations at optical, near-IR, and radio wavelengths to confirm and characterize these sources and their circumstellar environments are underway. I will highlight some of our most well characterized events, including SPIRITS 16tn, a likely sub-luminous type II SN at only 8.8 Mpc, and heavily obscured by 7-9 magnitudes of visible extinction. Two of our our most recently discovered events, SPIRITS 17pc and SPIRITS 17qm, underwent multiple pre-discovery IR outbursts and have candidate luminous blue variable progenitors in archival HST imaging. Finally, I will discuss prospects for upcoming surveys in the optical with the Zwicky Transient Facility and near-IR with Palomar Gattini-IR that will be sensitive to larger samples of obscured SNe at a range of extinctions and distances.