Your Responsibilities
Owning design quality and consistency
- Take clear ownership of Hive’s visual output across all channels
- Raise and maintain standards around attention to detail, consistency, and execution
- Ensure our brand shows up in a confident, intentional, and cohesive way
Delivering high-impact design work
- Lead design on priority initiatives such as:
- Website pages and ongoing improvements
- Campaigns and launches
- Core marketing and sales assets
- Balance craft with pace — applying excellence where it has the greatest impact and momentum where it matters most.
Building scalable design systems
- Create and maintain:
- Canva templates for non-designers
- Clear brand guidelines and guardrails
- Reusable components that reduce rework
- Enable the wider team to self-serve confidently without diluting the brand
- Reduce dependency on design for low-value or repetitive tasks
- Manage a 3rd party design service to scale production
Working as a creative partner to marketing and beyond
- Collaborate closely with:
- Marketing colleagues
- Customer delivery teams
- The sales department
- Product development
- You’ll help strengthen briefs by asking the right questions, challenging assumptions, and clarifying objectives — ensuring the end product is as strong as possible.
- Help the team think more visually, not just execute requests
Make full use of the tools
- You’ll already be comfortable with using our suite of design and presentation tools; Figma, Adobe CC, Canva, Google suite
- If you know your way around WordPress, Elementor, HubSpot and animations as well, that’s even better
Using AI thoughtfully
- Explore and apply AI tools to improve ideation, speed, and output
- Extend creative capability while protecting quality and judgement
- Share what works (and what doesn’t) with the team
What success looks like
- Design quality across Hive noticeably levels up
- Our website and key digital assets feel sharper and more cohesive
- Our software is promoted in a way that showcases its full potential
- The brand feels more confident and intentional
- The marketing team can move faster without constant design dependency
- Design decisions are proactive, well-reasoned, and trusted
About you
You’re likely someone who:
- Is comfortable being the sole designer and owning decisions
- Thinks in systems as well as assets
- Has a varied design portfolio across digital, print and brand design, it’d be great if you had some experience of illustration too
- Cares deeply about craft and results
- Has strong judgement and can prioritise without hand-holding
- Is confident pushing back and explaining why
- Is curious about new tools and ways of working (including AI), but grounded in fundamentals
- Obsesses over attention to detail
- Takes pride in your supreme organisation skills
- Takes care to listen, read and collect information before taking action
- Is a team player extraordinaire who can communicate effectively with various individuals and departments
- Has a positive mindset and a sense of when to inject some fun into the mix!
