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With a collaborative, maker-centric team, and an emphasis on production-led design, we develop creative campaigns, short-form content, and websites for well-known brands. \nOur mission is to integrate creative and production to help grow brands faster. But we believe what’s most important are the people who work with us and the experience they have along the way. We want clients to think of us as the best agency they’ve ever worked with, and we want everyone at Hook to feel like this is the best job they’ve had yet.\nWHAT’S AN ASSOCIATE DESIGN DIRECTOR AT HOOK?\nHook is seeking a hands-on Associate Design Director to join one of our teams.\nAssociate Design Directors are experienced leaders who use design to exceed client goals, while working within the guard rails of existing brand marketing strategies. They operate alongside creative and motion teams, serving as a client-facing bridge between high-level brand strategy and systematic visual execution. They create robust visual languages and scalable design frameworks that power industry-leading content across static and animated mediums.\nThey are driven experts with a passion for making premium, ground-breaking work and a commitment to fostering the talents of the employees they collaborate with. They are fearless executors who elevate the work into new creative territories. They’re fundamentalists when it comes to digital design, but approach projects with rational and innovative mindsets, always mindful of how it looks and how it works.\nAssociate Design Directors are ready for hands-on projects at every stage of the life cycle, from brainstorming creative concepts with the project team and developing original campaigns, to participating in client presentations and ensuring deadlines are met, to building dynamic design systems and overseeing high-volume production rollouts that scale seamlessly across digital, video, print, and emerging platforms.\nThey have a well-established process for concept development, using visual presentations, storyboards, and mocks to communicate solutions to peers, leadership, and clients. They also excel at translating bold concepts into modular, extensible design systems. With expertise in design tokenization, asset automation, and end-to-end production pipelines, they ensure pixel-perfect, efficient client delivery at scale, always on time and on spec.\nWhile this role would oversee tactical production workstreams, their responsibilities will also focus on strategic and conceptual visual design challenges for national and global brands/campaigns. With an existing design team in place, and opportunities to recruit additional talent, previous experience with team and project leadership within a rapid production environment will be a critical skill. Given the close proximity to marketing clients, being an excellent communicator and an overall joy-to-work-with will also go a long way toward success.\nWhile this role can work from any approved location, this person must have the flexibility to work around PST hours as the team’s clients are based on the West Coast.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO \nDemonstrate a mastery of visual design across design disciplines\nExecute, manage, and govern original, conceptual, and system-driven visual design work in line with agency standards and complex brand design systems\nBuild and maintain comprehensive visual design systems, component libraries, and modular toolkits that empower teams to produce high-volume assets efficiently without losing creative fidelity\nApply design rigor to provide mentorship to cross-functional teams with the goal of accelerating skill progression\nInspire, oversee, and provide mentorship to design staff with the goal of accelerating skill progression through a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and knowledge sharing\nFluently speak the language of design with both clients and creatives enabling effective feedback and direction\nDemonstrate emotional intelligence in all meetings and communications\nWork closely with creative staff to ensure design work goes above and beyond the expected\nMaintain and promote internal best practices around modern production design, tool integrations, automated workflows, and standardized asset handoffs\nModel a sense of ownership that elevates the standards and quality of all work achieved by the designers\nDemonstrate an ability to work on multiple projects at the same time while maintaining clear vision of priorities\nLead projects and oversee a team to ensure that work is client-ready at all phases of their projects\nManage direct reports to help shape and grow their careers as it relates to their hard and soft skill development\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED\nDemonstrate a high level of craftsmanship in design, with expertise working on design solutions as it relates to campaigns and visual systems across multiple platforms\nExpertise in visual design with a deep focus on design systems, component architecture, and multi-channel campaign scaling\nProven experience leading design streams, multi-format adaptation pipelines, and modular creative rollouts for complex, multi-market campaigns\nHave outstanding communication and presentation skills\nBe imaginative, collaborative, conceptual, and curious\nHave an optimistic outlook toward client revisions, knowing when and how to offer opportunities to push boundaries creatively\nGenerate and maintain enthusiasm for ideas within the agency as they move from concept to execution\nMastery of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator) alongside a strong technical understanding of digital production formats, asset optimization, and platform specs\nMastery of Figma (variables, auto-layout, component libraries, dynamic templates) to build scalable design infrastructure and drive workflow efficiencies\nAdditional programs and skills are great to come with (illustration, motion/After Effects, 3D/Cinema 4D)\nHave direct experience-and an enthusiasm for-team leadership and mentorship\nWHAT ELSE\nQualified applicants will include a resume and a link to a portfolio/body of work that demonstrates a breadth of experience.\nThis is a full-time position that can be hybrid or remote, depending on geographic location. We're a close-knit group of people who love what we do and want to create phenomenal work.\nCompany benefits include health, dental, matching 401k, paid vacation and holidays, wellness stipends/continuing education subsidies and more. \nAt Hook we value what makes everyone different, we look for the best talent no matter the background. 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