Lead Brand Designer

Lead Brand Designer

$160k – $200k • meaningful equity

About Novig

Novig is building America's #1 sports prediction market. Our mission is to financialize and democratize sports trading - taking a closed system run by casinos and turning it into a fair, efficient, two-sided market where the power sits with users.

With Novig recently becoming a CFTC-designated market — the fastest designation of its kind in US history— we're bringing the prediction market built for sports fans nationwide.

We're backed by some of Silicon Valley's top investors — Pantera, Forerunner, Lux, NFX, Paul Graham, and Joe Montana — who have collectively invested over $100M behind this vision.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Brand Designer to join our small, high-output creative team and help shape how Novig shows up in the world.

This is a hands-on IC role with real creative freedom — you’ll work directly with the Head of Creative across brand and product systems, campaign assets, and culture-moving work. This is a rare opportunity to help define a brand still young enough that your fingerprints will be on everything.

What you will do

• Help solidify Novig's brand identity and evolve it as we scale. Then be its keeper.
• Own design concepts with real autonomy, from art direction through execution, across brand, campaign, and marketing work.
• Act as a strategic design lead. Partner directly with peers in product, marketing, and leadership.
• Look for places Novig's design can level up. If you spot an opportunity worth chasing, pitch it and go make it.
• Partner with product design to create graphics (icons, illustrations, promotional assets) and branded moments within the app.
• Direct contract designers on overflow work.

What you bring

• 6-8 years of design experience at top brands, studios, or agencies.
• A world- class portfolio that showcases your eye and your craft.
• Impeccable taste. Probably the single most important thing.
• The confidence to operate with real autonomy.
• An obsession with craft that doesn’t discriminate by project size. The smallest deliverable gets the same care as the biggest campaign.
• Range across print and digital. Familiarity with product design is a big plus.
• Comfort wearing a lot of hats: art director, strategist, designer. Whatever the job needs.
• A finger on the pulse of art, culture, and design.
• Comfort with ambiguity. Startup pace means sometimes building the plane as we fly it.
• Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; motion design experience is a strong plus.
• Nice to have
• Experience directing contract or freelance designers.
• Experience building or evolving a brand identity from the ground up, ideally at a startup or in-house team.
• Interest or experience in sports, betting, prediction markets, or other stigmatized/regulated categories.
• Why work here, in the words of the people who do
• “I work with extremely stellar people, I own real systems, and decisions happen fast. No politics, no waiting for needless red tape. If something's broken, I fix it. If I build something good, it ships.”
• “The people! They're smart, thoughtful, fun to work with and passionate about their craft.”
• “I'm having the most fun I've had in my entire career.”
• If you want responsibility, trust, and the chance to help build the future of sports prediction markets - take your shot, we’d love to connect.
• Not for everyone
• Our work is tied to live sports - that means potential nights, weekends, and pressure included.
• If you need clear swim lanes, a heavy process, or someone to tell you what to do, this won’t be the right environment.