Creative Director

Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies🚀. Thanks to our industry leading technology and our best in class capital markets team, we are home to the fastest growing marketplace for the stock of “unicorns” on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by tier one venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high performing team.

As a Creative Director at Hiive, you will build the creative center of our organization. First, you will transform our complex business into a cohesive visual identity that solidifies us as the leaders in our space. During this process, you will have the creative freedom to explore multiple directions for every project and work closely with our executive team to develop Hiive’s unique personality. Throughout that journey you will engage regularly with the CEO and senior leadership to understand the creative needs for our organization, manage those needs with your own hands, and outsource bigger projects to agencies with the goal of eventually building out a creative team as Hiive scales. If the prospect of tackling the complex and multi-dimensional brand challenge of a startup disrupting global capital markets excites you, then look no further.

In This Role Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Evolve Hiive’s visual creative identity to meet our changing priorities
• As the first dedicated creative designer, develop visual assets for digital elements across places such as our website, ads, and social media as well as physical assets that we need occasionally
• Periodically collaborate directly with the CEO to interpret his vision for Hiive’s brand and visual identity
• Convert Hiive’s various personas into a cohesive and clear narrative unique for each
• Help lead our company’s rebrand
• Manage the content production cadence and outsourced agencies as needed
• And eventually, build a creative team to handle our evolving business needs
  
  

Required Skills

• 10+ years of design, brand and/or marketing work
• Exceptional attention to pixel-level detail
• A deep portfolio showing a wide range of different techniques across various mediums
• Experience communicating product features visually
• Exceptional project management and prioritization skill
• Ability to communicate design direction to cross-functional teammates
• Self starter who identifies areas where we can improve our design
• Ability to convert complex topics into compelling visual stories
• Experience growing and leading creative teams
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience in fintech, or another complex industry
• Experience in marketplaces or B2B SAAS
• Experience with unique data visualization techniques
• Animation and/or video editing ability
• Deep understanding of the startup and VC ecosystem
  
  

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

• Highly competitive salary, commensurate with experience and contribution.
• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.
• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, and a health spending account.
• A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
• Enjoy a $20 per day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.
• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens’ Network events.
• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
• Entrepreneurial culture, and a small and dynamic team.
• Sponsorship, immigration and relocation for exceptional candidates.
  
  

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.