This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Collaboration and critique are core to how we build at Hover. Creating the best product and brand experiences requires close partnership, thoughtful challenge, and a willingness to ask hard questions that improve the work. As Creative Director, you’ll help shape that culture while bringing a confident, strategic creative voice to high-impact decisions across the company. This role offers the opportunity to influence Hover’s brand, marketing, and product experiences while helping define how creative work gets built, tested, and scaled. You will contribute by: - Leading Hover’s creative expression through collaboration, early prototyping, and a deep focus on the user. - Championing testing and iteration over static presentations, using prototypes to drive better conversations and outcomes. - Bringing strong design fundamentals and product understanding to stakeholder discussions, helping teams navigate what’s possible while pushing for the best experience. - Partnering cross-functionally to guide critique, align teams, and evolve Hover’s design systems and creative standards as the company grows. - Leading collaborative critique and design sessions. - Prototyping and testing ideas early and often. - Partnering with stakeholders to balance creative vision and feasibility. - Contributing to and evolving Hover’s design system. Qualifications - Experience leading creative work across product, brand, and marketing. - Strong design fundamentals and an ability to elevate work through critique. - Experience working with design systems and scalable frameworks. - Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. - Comfort leading cross-functional conversations. - Strong communication and collaboration skills. Requirements - Motion design or advanced prototyping experience (nice-to-have). - Experience partnering closely with product and engineering (nice-to-have). - Experience evolving a design system at scale (nice-to-have). Benefits - Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company. - Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents. - Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy. - Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave. - Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge. - Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance. - Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications.

• Work closely with the Creative Director on the conceptual development and execution of seasonal editorial A&F NFL Collaboration shoots – ensuring that all creative content aligns with the brand's guidelines and is consistent with the overall brand aesthetic. • Concept, plan, and execute all NFL-related content for the A&F brand across campaigns, social, and special projects. • Develop moodboards and oversee casting, on-set art direction, propping, and overall visual execution of each shoot. • Work with external partners including production, agents and NFL teams to plan and schedule content capture. • Manage post-production across all assets, ensuring quality, consistency, and timely delivery. • Partner closely with strategy, styling, and product teams to align creative with business and brand goals. • Work on set with celebrity and athlete talent, representing the brand with professionalism and confidence. • Lead and empower shoot team through roadblocks and unexpected problems, challenging the team to seek creative solutions that advance our brand and speak to the customer. • Expect travel during the NFL season, including games, player homes and special events. • Understand current trends in social media, fashion, and culture – testing new ideas to further develop and advance the creative voice of the A&F brand. • Communicate and collaborate effectively within the A&F organization, clearly and effectively presenting ideas and projects to cross functional partners and all levels of leadership. • Evolve the brand handwriting for a new generation of consumers, building off existing brand foundation. • Help to implement a creative organization that supports a content-led marketing strategy. • Other projects and responsibilities as assigned

• Own the creative vision behind Mercury’s brand – elegant, technically excellent, creative, and unmistakably recognizable • Set strategy and vision for how we can establish Mercury as the new standard for design and craft in modern banking • Oversee creative and brand work across all marketing channels, including digital ads, OOH, video, editorial and blog content, website, events & experiential marketing, physical products (like our credit cards and print magazine), and more • Ensure a consistently high bar for craft, clarity, and creativity across all channels • Lead a growing team of 16+ talented creatives (brand designers, writers, and people managers); as well as manage and direct external agencies and freelancers • Foster a team culture for delivering excellent and impactful creative work • Be comfortable getting hands-on when needed — reviewing work in detail and providing precise, actionable feedback to push work from good to excellent • Partner closely with Product Design and Product leadership to ensure brand and product feel cohesive • Collaborate with executive leadership to translate strategy into creative direction.

• Drive art direction from concept through launch across paid, owned, and earned touchpoints, with a heavy focus on design execution and channel adaptation. • Partner with the Senior Creative Director to translate brand strategies into strong, category-defining visual concepts that feel unmistakably Alma. • Oversee creative for paid media channels. • Maintain Alma's visual standards by creating and reviewing daily creative deliverables and providing clear, actionable feedback to designers, freelancers and agency partners. • Lead the visual execution of photo and video shoots, ensuring production work feels authentic and aligns with the established brand aesthetic. • Coordinate with external creative partners, including agencies and freelancers, to enforce clear briefs and ensure all deliverables meet quality standards. • Develop and maintain creative systems—such as email templates, social frameworks, and component libraries—to enable the team to produce routine work with high velocity. • Mentor designers on technical craft and execution, helping them improve their design output and contribution to the team.