Associate Creative Director, Brand & Design (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; onsite at the Long Beach location

Salary: $151,000–$256,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops next-generation commercial space stations, including the Haven station program, to support continuous human presence in space, microgravity research and manufacturing, and the emerging space economy.

What you will do

• Own and evolve brand design standards and maintain a consistent creative quality bar.
• Manage a small team of designers through real-time feedback, reviews, and clear creative direction.
• Design, sketch, edit, and art direct work directly when hands-on execution is needed.
• Lead creative projects from concept through final execution across brand initiatives, campaigns, and key company moments.
• Translate business goals and complex technical concepts into executable creative direction.
• Partner with marketing, communications, product, engineering, operations, business, and leadership teams while incorporating AI into design and production workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in brand, design, art direction, visual communications, integrated marketing, or a related creative discipline.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating hands-on craft across multiple channels and audiences, with an emphasis on innovative, simple, technically minded work.
• Experience managing a small design team while remaining deeply hands-on.
• Experience mentoring designers and translating business objectives, audience insights, and complex concepts into clear creative.
• Ability to work onsite in Long Beach, California, and meet U.S. export control requirements: U.S. person status or eligibility for deemed export licensing is required.

Nice to have

• Brand-building experience in aerospace, technology, science, or another technically complex category.
• Experience across brand standards, print, advertising, social, events, partnerships, mission graphics, facilities, and wayfinding.
• Experience managing external creative partners and production resources.
• Ability to communicate with engineers and executives and align stakeholders without compromising the creative point of view.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time exempt employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare, and other discounts and perks.
• Free snacks, coffee, cold drinks, dinner meals, an onsite barista, and subsidized lunch.
• Ability to travel up to 10% and work overtime or weekends during critical mission milestones.