Brand Designer

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 Brand Designer at Hiive, you will be at the creative center of our organization, transforming our complex business into a cohesive visual identity that solidifies us as the leaders in our space. You will have the creative freedom to explore multiple directions for every project and will work closely with our executive team to develop Hiive’s unique personality. As one of the first members of our marketing team, you'll have the opportunity to shape both your own journey and the journey of the marketing organization. If you ever wanted to build a brand from the ground up in an organization that is growing at an exponential pace - look no further.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Evolve Hiive’s visual creative identity to meet the growth of the business 

• 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 

• Support our rebranding project and guide it’s implementation across our business 

• Convert Hiive’s multiple audiences into different visual journeys 

• Bonus: Ability to create animations and basic videos

Required Skills:

• 5+ 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 projection management and prioritization skill

• Ability to communicate design direction to cross-functional teammates 

• Self starter who identifies areas where we can improve our design

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in Fintech, or another complex industry 

• Experience with unique data visualization techniques 

• Animation and/or Video editing ability

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.

• Preference to those willing to work, Vancouver, BC HQ, with a first-class view of the mountains. Open to Canadian and US-based remote candidates.

• 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.