Lead Visual Designer

Location: Hybrid, based in either the San Francisco office or the New York City office, with two days of in-office collaboration per week.

Base pay: $89,000–$115,000 per year, excluding bonus, benefits, and perks.

Company

hirify.global is a marketplace platform connecting people with Taskers for everyday home services, including furniture assembly, handyman work, and moving help.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the global visual identity, brand guidelines, and campaign design style guides.
• Direct high-budget brand campaigns and photo and video productions from concept and mood boards through on-set direction and post-production.
• Build a scalable visual design system with templates, layout principles, and channel-specific guidance.
• Create and adapt visual concepts for email, social, out-of-home, video, in-store signage, landing pages, product, and partner channels.
• Lead campaign discussions, generate original concepts, and direct illustration, icon, motion, and photography work.
• Coach creative team members, improve workflows and asset libraries, and use performance insights to optimize visual decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in creative marketing, brand design, or art direction.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong design craft, art direction, photo and video production leadership, and campaign results.
• Proven experience briefing production teams, directing talent and crew on set, and guiding post-production.
• Very comfortable with Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma, with skills in illustration, icon design, and motion graphics or animation.
• Strong understanding of typography, visual hierarchy, brand systems, communication, organization, and concurrent campaign management.
• Experience adapting visual assets for global brands and incorporating localization across markets.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale or high-budget campaigns, including OOH, CTV, and partner co-branded work.
• Experience building visual design systems or template libraries for fast-growing teams.
• Familiarity with content performance metrics and AI tools for creative development and workflow efficiency.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior designers or contractors.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment across multiple projects and balancing brand strategy with hands-on production.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular in-person collaboration.
• Employer-paid health insurance and a 401(k) match with immediate vesting for US-based employees.
• Flexible time off and two company-wide closure weeks for global employees.
• Product, wellness, productivity, and education stipends, plus IKEA discounts and reproductive health support.
• Benefits vary by country of employment.