Senior Graphic Designer, Lead

About the role

Hyve Solutions is seeking a Graphic Design Lead to oversee brand design across various touchpoints including marketing collateral, events, web, social media, motion/video, and executive communications. This role involves building scalable systems that enhance the team's efficiency and consistency.

Responsibilities

• Design & Craft
• Create high-quality, polished designs across brand, marketing, communications, and product experiences.
• Evolve comprehensive design systems that scale across campaigns, digital platforms, product storytelling visuals, and internal communications.
• Design across brand, marketing, communications, and product-adjacent touchpoints (launch visuals, diagrams, demos, technical storytelling assets).
• Conceptual & Systems Thinking
• Lead ideation and concept development, translating complex ideas into simple, impactful creative solutions.
• Apply systems thinking to ensure visual consistency, scalability, and long-term brand integrity.
• Create brand systems, behaviors, and visual languages with a high level of craftsmanship.
• Collaboration & Leadership
• Collaborate with creatives, marketing leads, product managers, product marketers, engineers, producers, and program managers.
• Balance stakeholder needs while advocating for design excellence.
• Provide clear, constructive feedback and guide creative direction when needed.
• Mentor junior designers, and partners.
• Act as a project lead, setting direction, running critiques, and ensuring consistency across designers and partners.
• Execution & Delivery
• Own projects end-to-end, from concept through final delivery.
• Ensure timely delivery of assets that meet creative and project objectives.
• Maintain clean, organized, and shareable files.
• Participate in critiques and foster a culture of excellence and feedback.

Requirements

• BFA or BA in Design, Visual Communication, or related field or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of experience in graphic design and art direction
• Proven experience building design systems across communications, marketing, and product
• Portfolio demonstrating branding (typography, illustration, photography), campaigns, and data visualization
• Expertise in branding, photography direction, and motion design
• Strong presentation design skills (executive and customer-facing)
• Experience creating content across static, motion, and interactive formats
• Experience using generative AI to accelerate ideation and production, with strong judgment around quality, accuracy, and brand safety (preferred)
• Strong appreciation for aesthetics, user experience, accessibility, and inclusive design
• Adaptable, curious, and comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Detail-oriented from concept to final output
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Experience working with diverse stakeholders
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma

Qualifications

• BFA or BA in Design, Visual Communication, or related field or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of experience in graphic design and art direction
• Proven experience building design systems across communications, marketing, and product
• Portfolio demonstrating branding (typography, illustration, photography), campaigns, and data visualization
• Expertise in branding, photography direction, and motion design
• Strong presentation design skills (executive and customer-facing)
• Experience creating content across static, motion, and interactive formats
• Experience using generative AI to accelerate ideation and production, with strong judgment around quality, accuracy, and brand safety (preferred)
• Strong appreciation for aesthetics, user experience, accessibility, and inclusive design
• Adaptable, curious, and comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Detail-oriented from concept to final output
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Experience working with diverse stakeholders
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma

Skills

• Generative AI
• User Experience (UX)
• Inclusive Design
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Figma

Benefits

Hyve Solutions offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a supportive work environment. Details on benefits are available upon request.

Pay

$135,000 - $150,000 annually

Schedule

Hybrid schedule: 1 day remote and 4 days in-office