Creative Director / Lead Brand Designer (AI)

TL;DR

Creative Director / Lead Brand Designer (AI): Defining and evolving hirify.global’s brand system across marketing, product touchpoints, sales materials, web, content, and emerging AI surfaces with an accent on AI-first design fluency and building durable AI-first systems. Focus on systematizing production, developing scalable AI pipelines for brand asset production, and pioneering how AI reshapes brand storytelling and visual expression.

Location: This role will be hybrid and based in downtown San Francisco, with at least 3 days per week in the office for in-person collaboration.

Salary: $185K – $240K (New York, NY or San Francisco, CA)

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to return time as the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time.

What you will do

• Own the brand strategy, positioning, and narrative framing together with marketing and design partners.
• Define and refine hirify.global’s visual identity, typography, layout systems, imagery direction, and brand voice in partnership with leadership.
• Build durable AI-first systems that scale across web, product marketing, sales enablement, and content.
• Art direct major campaigns and launches, including web, video, social and press.
• Develop repeatable, scalable AI pipelines for brand asset production that can be used by creative and non-creative partners.
• Maintain a strong “book” of trusted freelancers and creative partners (illustrators, motion designers, photographers, videographers, etc.).

Requirements

• A portfolio showcasing world-class brand and visual design work that you personally executed.
• Clear evidence of individual contribution and art direction of other creatives.
• Experience working inside a fast moving product startup - bonus points for B2B, SaaS or professional services.
• AI-first design fluency. Extensive experience with one or more image or video generation tools and/or AI based workflows.
• Track record of creating, evolving and evangelizing visual identity and/or brand systems.
• Comfortable working in small, high-performance teams.
• Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

Nice to have

• Motion design (After Effects, generative motion workflows, etc.)
• Video editing and basic shooting capability
• Webflow development
• Product design

Culture & Benefits

• A smart, fun, collaborative, and inclusive team.
• Great employee benefits, including equity and 401K.
• Bi-annual, in-person company off-sites, in unique locations, to grow and share time with the team.
• An opportunity to perform at your best while growing, making a meaningful impact on the company's trajectory, and embodying our core values.