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# Senior Art Director at Hook

- **Company:** Hook
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hook/jobs/8643836002

## Job description

## WHO WE ARE

We’re Hook—an award-winning creative content agency. With a collaborative, maker-centric team and an emphasis on production-led design, we make ads, campaigns, and experiences that drive growth for the world’s most innovative brands.

Our mission is to integrate creative and production to help grow brands faster, but we believe what’s most important are the people who work with us and the experience they have along the way. We want clients to think of us as the best agency they’ve ever worked with, and we want everyone at Hook to feel like this is the best job they’ve had yet.

WHAT’S A SENIOR ART DIRECTOR AT HOOK?

A great Senior Art Director is a creative, highly collaborative talent who excels at balancing hands-on design craft with creative direction. They are a positive, inspiring partner who is a joy to work with.

Solves complex marketing challenges through solid conceptual thinking and exceptional design. They are proficient at establishing trust with clients, confidently presenting creative work, and leading projects from ideation through execution alongside motion designers, writers, and motion designers. They have experience in digital marketing, social media landscapes, production, and technology. They have a highly collaborative creative process to generate successful, visually stunning advertising solutions.

Develop an understanding of the client’s products, UI features, and target audiences. This retained brand knowledge enables them to translate complex product features into clear, engaging stories. A Senior AD actively supports the ACD team on pitching, ideation, and design, keeping projects running smoothly and proactively identifying potential issues before they disrupt a project.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Hands-on Concepting & Execution: Collaborate with a writing partner to develop insight-driven creative concepts, executing the visual design to a standard that exceeds client expectations.
- Design & Concepting: This role entails creating and guiding visually appealing designs and concepts, coming up with ideas and making content for social and digital campaigns. It will be important even when working with tight budgets.
- Client Relationships: Establish and maintain positive relationships with all relevant client contacts, becoming an expert on brand culture, politics, products, preferences, and expectations.
- Team Collaboration: Collaborate with Design and Motion teams to refine and adjust processes to push the work further and find efficiencies.
- Communication: Be a clear and effective communicator to the team and trusted partner to the production team
- Creative Partnership: Partner with a Senior Copywriter and create inspiring work that drives storytelling across media
- Presentations: Lead the development and presentation of pitch materials for all major and complex campaigns associated with a brand or brand group
- High Quality: Ensure the highest possible quality of all strategic, creative, and design deliverables within the scope of one or more brand relationships
- Push the Work: Elevate overall work quality by setting increasingly high standards and articulating ambitious creative opportunities (without sacrificing baseline deliverable requirements)
- Work Relationships: Cultivate positive relationships with Design, Copywriting, Motion and Production.
- Team Cultural Impact: Promote a positive creative culture through teamwork, positive attitude, and leading by example.
- Travel: Ability to travel and support photo and video shoots depending on briefs

## WHAT YOU’LL NEED

- 5+ years of creative agency or production company experience across a variety of campaign types
- Hands-on design experience is a must. This person will be expected to step in and support design and be able to give pixel perfect design feedback to other members of the team
- Familiarity with motion graphics and ability to collaborate with motion designers and give clear direction
- Bonus points if you also have hands on brand design and/or motion design experience
- Strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to solve complex marketing challenges with diverse tones and for various industries, especially with digital and social-first projects
- Ability to tell a clear, engaging story using UI features and visuals, understanding of key benefits to users and how to highlight them with limited assets
- Keep up with industry developments and AI tools
- Ability to come up with big idea thinking promoting tech services and products is a plus
- Experience working with tech or well recognized domestic or international brands is a plus
- Photo and video shoot support and travel will likely be necessary (about less than 10% of the year). Overnight travel may be required.

## WHAT ELSE

Qualified applicants will include a resume and a statement of interest that allows us to learn a little more about you.

We are a remote first organization with a “work from wherever” approach (within the US). We're a collaborative group of people who love the internet, and want to create phenomenal work. Company benefits include health, dental, matching 401k, paid vacation and holidays, and more.

At Hook, we value what makes everyone different. We look for the best talent, no matter the background. We know that great work requires diverse perspectives, which is why we strive to create a place of belonging where everyone can express who they are. Come join us!

Hook believes in equity and compensation transparency. We’ve designed a 10-level advancement framework that’s applied consistently across disciplines and departments, aligning with our location-based salary ranges. This role is leveled as an L5. We’ll review your location, skills, experience, and other relevant factors during the interview process to determine where you fall within our leveling framework and corresponding salary ranges. Please follow this [link](https://byhook.com/careers#compensation) to learn more.

Please review our[Transparent Compensation Philosophy](https://byhook.com/careers). We are not currently considering candidates in the Tier 4 market band for this role at this time.

## About Hook

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hook is an award-winning creative content agency that produces ads, campaigns, and digital experiences for the world’s most innovative brands like Google, Amazon, and Mailchimp.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Profit-sharing)
- **Headquarters**: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States (operates in 6 countries including South Africa, Egypt, India, Canada, and Brazil)
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising Services / Digital Production / Creative Content Agency
- **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise (brand teams at Google, Amazon, Indeed, Mailchimp, YouTube)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To be everyone’s favorite agency—where clients feel it’s the best agency they’ve ever worked with, and where employees feel it’s the best job they’ve ever had.

## Products & Services
- **Full-Service Creative Campaigns**: Strategy, concept development, and production for brand advertising across paid and owned channels.
- **Digital Content Production**: Video, animation, social content, and banner ads.
- **Experimental & Experience Design**: Interactive experiences and experiments for brands.
- **Post-Production & Craft Services**: Specialized motion design, editing, and finishing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$31.4M** (latest estimate)
- **Notable Clients/Partners**: Google, YouTube, Amazon (music, fashion, entertainment), Indeed, Mailchimp
- **Growth Signals**: Employs 87 people (-0.6% YoY), operates in 6 countries, LinkedIn followers growing +17.8% YoY (16,911 followers). Maintains a deliberate, stable growth philosophy rather than reacting to single projects.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Production-led approach**: Founded as a digital production company, they prioritize craft and iterative making, not just strategy.
- **Small, diverse, interdisciplinary teams**: Teams of ~20 people formed from an equal mix of artists, creatives, engineers, and producers, enabling rapid iteration.
- **Remote-first culture**: Equitable experience for in-office and remote employees.
- **Transparent compensation & leveling**: A 10-level framework applied consistently across all departments, with location-based salary adjustments (4 tiers). Includes a "Principal" track for craft-focused individuals who don’t want to manage people.
- **Profit-sharing**: All full-time staff receive discretionary annual profit-sharing when margin targets are met.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deliberate scaling**: Only hire when there is a definitive, long-term need—not in reaction to a single project.
- **Diverse sourcing**: Actively recruits through niche platforms like Where Are the Black Designers, Panimation, and the One Club for Creativity to find talent beyond traditional pedigree.
- **Craft-first hiring**: Prioritizes an individual’s ability to create over where they learned it, valuing multidisciplinary and self-taught backgrounds.
- **Continued service to top tech brands**: Deepening relationships with Google, Amazon, and other major platform companies.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes inclusivity, risk-taking, and belonging. "Half of us are working to build a company where everyone can belong."
- **Remote Policy**: **Remote-first**—work experience is equitable whether in a workspace or your own home.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% employee coverage for health, vision, and dental insurance (PPO or HSA)
  - 401K matching up to 3% of compensation
  - Up to $1,000 annual Growth & Wellbeing stipend
  - Professional growth stipends, mentorship programs
  - Parental leave: Primary caregivers get up to 12 weeks paid + 12 weeks unpaid; Secondary caregivers get up to 8 weeks paid
  - PTO: 15 days (<3 years), 20 days (3-8 years), 25 days (8+ years), plus 7 paid sick days and 1 flex holiday
  - Sabbatical and discretionary bonuses
- **Engineering/Craft Culture**: Offers a "Principal" track for senior individual contributors who want to stay close to the work and become industry skill experts, rather than moving into management.
- **Visa Sponsorship**: **Not available**—candidates must have permanent US work authorization.

## Sources
1. [byhook.com - Homepage](https://byhook.com/)
2. [byhook.com - Careers](https://byhook.com/careers)
3. [byhook.com - Who We Are](https://byhook.com/whoweare)
4. [byhook.com - Hiring Philosophy](https://byhook.com/activity/hooks-hiring-philosophy)
5. [LinkedIn - Hook](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hooknotthemovie)

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