appflame – Art Director

We are looking for the daring and enthusiastic people. Those who are fans of creating real products and dream of launching and developing cool startups. You have ambitions, and we have comfortable conditions for their implementation.

Your project: Hily. It is a dating app that has won the hearts of millions of users worldwide. The app helps users quickly find someone to connect with, from flirting to building meaningful relationships. We take our mission seriously: we do our best to understand users’ needs and shorten their path from registration to finding an ideal partner. Thanks to our efforts, we are always on the list of the top 10 dating apps in the USA. 35M registered users, 50M matches annually, 1.5B likes sent, 900K monthly active users, 4.6/5 Apple Store and 4.4/5 Google Play user ratings.

You Will

• Lead brand design direction across brand marketing and communication assets, ensuring consistency and creative excellence.
• Implement brand guidelines, maintaining a high standard across internal and external materials.
• Support hands-on design execution — from campaign visuals, event materials, and landing pages to social assets, non-standard tasks, and presentations (print, digital, simple motion).
• Supervise video and photo production, when needed — from idea to execution.
• Ideate with the team and external creatives on brand campaigns and activations.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors/agencies to execute creative projects.
• Balance high-level art direction with daily design needs, providing clear feedback and refining creative assets.
• Ensure all marketing collateral aligns with our visual identity while keeping things fresh, engaging, and impactful.

From You

• 5+ years of experience in art direction, ideally in an agency or in-house creative team.
• A killer portfolio showcasing branding work, marketing collateral, and campaign ideation and execution.
• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and other industry tools.
• Ability to think strategically about brand design while being hands-on with execution.
• Experience working on multichannel campaigns (digital, print, social, events).
• A collaborative mindset — you love working with people, and even if you don’t, you pretend really well.
• A sharp eye for detail, typography, and composition — because the small things matter.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects at once, balancing creativity with efficiency.
• Deep interest in the US culture, including marketing and visual culture.

Will Be An Advantage

• Experience in motion graphics, illustration, or 3D design.
• Previous work in tech, lifestyle, or consumer brands.
• Passion for storytelling through design.

Your journey to the job offer: message from the recruiter > interview > test > final interview > job offer.

Why appflame?

• Involvement in Ukrainian products that compete with the world’s best players.
• The ability to implement your own ideas, not the feeling of a cog in the system.
• Meaningful and useful products, created not just for shareholders to earn money.
• A sense of yourself among your people who are charged with results.
• Work with the global market and a huge audience.
• Direct contact with Snapchat, Facebook, Google, Apple, and access to their best practices.
• Well-established processes and no barriers to growth within the company.
• Transparent evaluation of work based on personal performance indicators.
• Powerful social package and fair compensation.

We provide all conditions for your talents to be fully revealed.

We are loyal to our people. Our loyalty doesn’t fade at the end of the working day. We do not leave our people alone with their problems: neither professional nor personal.

Join us.

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We are against all types of discrimination, bullying, and stereotypes. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, health status or any other characteristics.