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Role Description

Collaboration and critique are core to how we build at Hover. Creating the best product and brand experiences requires close partnership, thoughtful challenge, and a willingness to ask hard questions that improve the work. As Creative Director, you’ll help shape that culture while bringing a confident, strategic creative voice to high-impact decisions across the company.

This role offers the opportunity to influence Hover’s brand, marketing, and product experiences while helping define how creative work gets built, tested, and scaled.

You will contribute by:

• Leading Hover’s creative expression through collaboration, early prototyping, and a deep focus on the user.
• Championing testing and iteration over static presentations, using prototypes to drive better conversations and outcomes.
• Bringing strong design fundamentals and product understanding to stakeholder discussions, helping teams navigate what’s possible while pushing for the best experience.
• Partnering cross-functionally to guide critique, align teams, and evolve Hover’s design systems and creative standards as the company grows.
• Leading collaborative critique and design sessions.
• Prototyping and testing ideas early and often.
• Partnering with stakeholders to balance creative vision and feasibility.
• Contributing to and evolving Hover’s design system.

Qualifications

• Experience leading creative work across product, brand, and marketing.
• Strong design fundamentals and an ability to elevate work through critique.
• Experience working with design systems and scalable frameworks.
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Comfort leading cross-functional conversations.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• Motion design or advanced prototyping experience (nice-to-have).
• Experience partnering closely with product and engineering (nice-to-have).
• Experience evolving a design system at scale (nice-to-have).

Benefits

• Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company.
• Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents.
• Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy.
• Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave.
• Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge.
• Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance.
• Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications.