Senior Designer I

WHO WE ARE

Hook is a Creative Production Agency. 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.

Our 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. 

WHAT’S A SENIOR DESIGNER AT HOOK?

Senior Designers are both master-level designers and skilled storytellers that use design to bring ideas to life. They 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 that elevate the work into uncharted creative territories without hesitation. 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. 

Senior Designers 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 producing functional prototypes and assets all the way to launch.
Conceptually speaking, Senior Designers have a well established process for concept development including, but not limited to, building visual presentations, storyboards and prototypes to show solutions and context to peers, leadership and clients.

Executionally speaking, Senior Designers at Hook can confidently execute and scale their concepts. They lend expert-level technical skills and knowledge of the digital production process to pixel-perfect client delivery, on time and on spec.

This is a fully remote role, but please be aware that most of the team and our client are based on the West Coast. You must be comfortable working around PST business hours.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Execute and manage original, persuasive, conceptual and visually compelling design work in line with agency standards.
• Lead projects with a focus on storytelling through motion design.
• Work with Creative Directors and Design Directors to ensure design work exceeds client expectations.
• Maintain and promote an internal awareness of industry design trends and standards with a strong focus on processes and tools.
• Inspire a positive creative culture by projecting a sense of ownership that elevates the standards and quality of all work achieved by the Design department.
• Demonstrate an ability to juggle multiple projects at the same time while maintaining clear vision of priorities, making sure everything is pixel perfect before facing the client. 
• Set an example for more junior design staff toward the goal of accelerating skill progression in a culture of collaboration, lending new ways of thinking and sharing skills and knowledge. 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• 5+ years of cutting edge digital creative work, and an expert-level understanding of design that spans typography and layout, campaign generation, brand identity, and social campaigns.
• Strong visual design foundation with a focus on systems design
• Experience working with high volume asset creations
• Ability to work in a fast-paced agency environment, with case studies demonstrating experience working on recognizable brands.
• Expertise in communicating brand narratives through storyboards/styleframes, illustration, or a combination thereof.
• Experience developing novel concepts for motion design, while possessing strong visual design capabilities, with a proven record leading animation projects alongside animators.
• Strong proficiency of Figma, Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as emerging interactive design trends (Knowledge of After Effects and Cinema 4d a plus).
• Active user of AI image generation tools. Enthusiastically curious about finding ways to collaborate with evolving AI tools.
• A willingness to share skills and knowledge with more junior team members.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.

WHAT ELSE

Qualified applicants will include a resume and a statement of interest that lets us learn a little more about you.

We are a remote first organization with a “work from wherever (within the US)” approach. We're a collaborative group of people who love the internet and want to create phenomenal work. Company benefits include health, dental, matching 401k, paid vacation and holidays, and more. 

At Hook we value what makes everyone different, we look for the best talent no matter the background. We know that great work requires diverse perspectives which is why we strive to create a place of belonging where everyone can express who they are. Come join us!

Hook believes in compensation transparency and equity. We’ve designed a 10-level advancement framework that’s applied consistently across disciplines and departments and aligns to location-based salary ranges. This role is leveled as an L5.

During the interview process we’ll review your location, skills, experience, and other relevant factors to determine where you fall within our leveling framework and corresponding salary ranges.

Please review our Transparent Compensation Philosophy. We are not currently considering candidates in the Tier 4 market band for this role at this time.