Lead Brand Designer

About Novig

America's #1 Sports Trading App

Tech

We're building the first high-frequency sports prediction trading platform. Stack: mobile app in React Native; backend exchange and trading components in Java; database layer in PostgreSQL, Mongo, S3. We’re a nimble team of researchers, engineers, statisticians, and other flavors of nerd who want to tackle some of the most challenging open-ended problems at the intersection of sports, game theory, and technology. If you enjoy solving hard interdisciplinary problems, then you’ll enjoy working at Novig. *Proof:* People who work at Novig solve hard interdisciplinary problems. □

The role

### **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.### **Compensation & benefits**- $160k – $200k base, benchmarked at top-tier tech companies- Meaningful equity for every employee, regardless of role- 100% health premiums covered- 99% dental & vision covered- 401(k) with 4% company match- HSA + $1,080 annual company contribution- $50/monthly company contribution to employee transit- $27/day lunch stipend when working from our NYC office- $35/day dinner stipend when working from the NYC office after 6:30pm### **Homebase**Union Square, NYC