Lead Brand Designer (Design/Motion)

Location: San Francisco; hybrid work with an average of 2 days per week in the local hirify.global office.

Base salary range: $130,000–$160,000 USD annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides an employee experience platform that helps more than 6,000 companies improve employee engagement, performance management, and team development.

What you will do

• Drive brand exploration and creative development for marketing design systems, with an emphasis on motion and video.
• Develop concepts, creative direction, and brand applications for integrated and paid campaigns across digital and physical channels.
• Build scalable systems for motion and video production, including templates and efficient creative workflows.
• Partner with growth, regional, product, and brand marketing teams on planning and strategy.
• Art direct designers, illustrators, photographers, motion designers, and video editors while providing clear, on-brand feedback.
• Facilitate creative workshops, present concepts to stakeholders, and develop AI-assisted workflows with tools such as Claude, Weavy, and Descript.

Requirements

• 7+ years of design experience in a client-side marketing function or equivalent agency experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, creative concept development, integrated marketing campaigns, motion design, and video projects.
• Strong ability to translate complex product visuals into animated UI interactions, marketing visualizations, motion, and video deliverables.
• High proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
• Experience with AI-assisted tools and workflows for imagery, video, and motion, plus an interest in scaling and systemizing creative production.
• Strong collaboration, communication, organization, critical thinking, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in a fast-growth B2B business.
• Knowledge of code-based visual or motion design, including HTML, CSS, or Lottie files.
• Experience guiding creative agency partnerships on complex projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity through the Employee Share Option Program.
• Learning programs, coaching, and ongoing professional development.
• Quarterly refresh days, an extended end-of-year break, and a monthly wellbeing and lifestyle allowance.
• Inclusive parental leave from day one and five annual social impact days.
• MacBook and budget for setting up a home workspace.
• Medical insurance coverage for employees and families, available for US and UK employees.