Associate Design Director

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 AN ASSOCIATE DESIGN DIRECTOR AT HOOK?

Hook is seeking a hands-on Associate Design Director to join one of our west coast teams.

Associate Design Directors are experienced leaders who expertly use design to exceed client goals, while working within the guard rails of existing brand marketing strategies. They operate alongside creative and motion teams, providing a client-facing fluency in visual languages, to produce industry-leading advertising content for both static and animated mediums.

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 who 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.

Associate 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 producing functional prototypes and assets all the way to launch.

Conceptually speaking, Associate Design Directors 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, Associate Design Directors 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.

While this role would oversee tactical production workstreams, the primary responsibilities will 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.

As this client is based on the West Coast, this person must have the flexibility to work around PST hours.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Demonstrate a working mastery of visual design and brand systems.
• Execute and manage original, persuasive, conceptual and visually compelling design work with an expertise in layout, typography, and brand identity design.
• Lead projects with a focus on complex brand campaigns and storytelling through motion design. Expertise in communicating brand narratives through storyboards and styleframes.
• Inspire and provide mentorship to design staff toward the goal of accelerating skill progression through a culture of collaboration, experimentation and knowledge sharing.
• Fluently speak the language of design with both clients and creatives enabling effective feedback and direction.
• Demonstrate emotional intelligence in all meetings