Designer

Join Hovercraft to create high-profile, culturally influential work for leading brands, including visual systems, campaigns, and immersive digital experiences. We seek designers who think strategically and creatively across various project types. Ideal candidates will demonstrate conceptual thinking, strategic insight, and exceptional craft through their portfolios. Multidisciplinary skills like illustration, animation, or spatial design are a plus, contributing to innovative and impactful design solutions.

Must Have

• Take ideas from initial concept through execution alongside creatives, technologists, producers and leadership.
• Develop original design directions and refine work within established brand guidelines and visual centers.
• Combine conceptual thinking with craft and attention to detail.
• Adapt to different brand styles and visual directions, spotting opportunities for unexpected interactive, environmental, or animation outputs.
• Find outside inspiration, and bring new thinking and ideas into the studio.
• 2+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Proficiency in Figma or Adobe Creative Cloud.
• A passion and hunger for learning and up-leveling your craft.
• Portfolio showing solid fundamentals, attention to detail, inventive design thinking and high-level execution in brand experience work (spec work is welcome).
• A collaborative team player that is motivated, pro-active and positive.

Good to Have

• Multidisciplinary skills such as illustration, animation, or spatial design.
• Illustration, animation or spatial design side hustles.

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits

About Us

Join Hovercraft to create high-profile, culturally influential work for leading brands. Projects include visual systems, campaigns, story-driven environments, immersive digital installations, and browser-based experiences.

The Role

We’re looking for designers who think strategically and creatively across a variety of project types. Portfolios should demonstrate conceptual thinking, strategic insight, and exceptional craft. Multidisciplinary skills such as illustration, animation, or spatial design are a plus.

What You’ll Do

• Take ideas from initial concept through execution alongside creatives, technologists, producers and leadership.
• Develop original design directions and refine work within established brand guidelines and visual centers.
• Combine conceptual thinking with craft and attention to detail
• Adapt to different brand styles and visual directions, spotting opportunities for unexpected interactive, environmental, or animation outputs.
• Find outside inspiration, and bring new thinking and ideas into the studio.

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years of experience in a similar role
• Proficiency in Figma or Adobe Creative Cloud
• A passion and hunger for learning and up-leveling your craft
• Portfolio showing solid fundamentals, attention to detail, inventive design thinking and high-level execution in brand experience work (spec work is welcome)
• A collaborative team player that is motivated, pro-active and positive.
• Illustration, animation or spatial design side hustles

The average salary range for this position is $70,000 - $80,000 annually, plus comprehensive benefits. Salary is determined by a combination of factors that include qualifications, applicable skills, relevant experience and other budgetary considerations such as location/geography.

Hovercraft is a remote-first company, working primarily on Pacific and Mountain time. You must be eligible to work in the US.

Recruitment Notice

We use AI-assisted tools solely to help identify and highlight keywords related to critical design skills and relevant experience within applications. These tools support our recruiting team by improving consistency and efficiency; they do not make hiring decisions. All applications are reviewed by humans, and AI is not used in a discriminatory manner or to evaluate personal characteristics unrelated to job requirements.

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