Hadley Designs is a vibrant, creative female-owned business dedicated to enriching everyday life and special moments through beautifully crafted stationery. Founded by Becca Hadley, who expertly balances design work with raising four children, the company has flourished for over a decade. With a heartfelt focus on education and organization, Hadley Designs offers a wide range of lovely educational posters, school supplies, homework trackers, and behavioral tools designed to support children’s learning and development in engaging ways.

Serving more than 2,000,000 happy customers and boasting over 100,000 five-star reviews, Hadley Designs combines creativity and practicality across a diverse portfolio of over 1,500 meticulously designed products. Their bestsellers include calendars, planners, educational posters, chore charts, and certificates of achievement - all crafted to bring joy, motivation, and organization to families and educators alike.


Hadley Designs

Do You Turn Great Creative Direction Into Finished, On-Style Product Art?

At Hadley Designs, we believe learning should be enjoyable, engaging, and screen-free. Millions of parents and teachers trust our beautifully designed, developmentally aligned educational tools to help children grow and thrive. As a fast-growing, family-founded brand, we are looking for an early-career illustrator who wants to make the art that goes into our products.

We are seeking a Junior Product Illustrator to work hand-in-hand with our Chief Creative Officer, taking her creative direction through to finished, production-ready product art. This is a maker’s seat, not a template-and-layout role. If you love to draw, have a genuine eye for cute, playful, kid-friendly design, and want to grow your craft inside a brand that ships beautiful products every month, this is a rare opportunity to build your portfolio while creating work that reaches millions of families.

About Hadley Designs

Hadley Designs is redefining early education with creativity and purpose. Every product is hand-drawn and teacher-designed, crafted to build confidence and connection. Our screen-free tools help families and teachers make learning meaningful while nurturing children’s curiosity and creativity.

Mission: We design beautiful, developmentally sound, screen-free products that parents can trust to help their children learn, grow, and reach their full potential.

Vision: To build the most trusted children’s brand in the world, reshaping how families learn, connect, and grow.

Role Overview

As our Junior Product Illustrator, you will turn the Chief Creative Officer’s vision into finished, on-style product art so Hadley Designs can launch products faster and multiply its creative capacity. The CCO sets the tone, style, and strategy; you carry out the hands-on execution by creating new artwork, completing sets in an established style, and building each concept through to production-ready.

This is a deliberately early-career seat for someone with real illustration talent who wants to keep growing their craft. You will not be expected to arrive as a seasoned art director. You will be expected to draw well, learn our style quickly, take direction cleanly, and finish the last mile of the creative so the CCO can focus on setting direction.

Key Responsibilities

Original Illustration &amp; Artwork. Create new artwork and complete sets in Hadley Designs’ established style. Illustrate original characters, motifs, patterns, and scenes that fit our cute, kid-friendly aesthetic.

Product Design Execution. Turn the CCO’s concepts and creative direction into finished, production-ready product designs.

Creative Production Support. Own execution offload, including variations, building designs across full sets, and file preparation. 

Style Consistency Keep every piece on-style and on-brand across the full product set. Maintain the living style reference so the look stays consistent as the catalog grows.

As needed, provide occasional ad-ops support, including A+ content, storefront updates, CMYK ad images, and revisions to existing product lines.

How Success Is Measured

<ul>
	<li>First-pass approval rate: The share of deliverables with no major rework</li>
	<li>New original art created: The volume of original artwork generated to feed the product pipeline.</li>
	<li>Sets/SKUs completed: Finished design sets per month</li>
	<li>On-time delivery: Assignments delivered by the agreed deadline.</li>
	<li>Framework-to-finish independence: The share of projects carried from CCO handoff to production-ready without kicking work back up.</li>
</ul>

Junior Product illustrator

Ready to Empower a Growing Team and Shape Our Future?

Hadley Designs is redefining early education with creativity and purpose. Every product we create is hand-drawn and teacher-designed, crafted with care to build confidence and connection. 

Role Overview

As the Director of Talent Acquisition &amp; People Operations, you will own how Hadley Designs sources, vets, and closes top global talent, and you will own the broader people system that talent steps into. You will partner with leadership to design the recruiting engine that consistently delivers strong top-of-funnel for every open role, and you will scale the people systems that hold a remote, contractor-centric organization together as it grows toward $100M and beyond.

This is a leadership-tier role with 1 direct report (the People Operations Specialist) and end-to-end ownership of the talent and people functions. Your weeks will be heavier on recruiting in the near term, live pipelines, structured interviews, test projects, employer brand, and steady on People Operations throughout (onboarding, performance frameworks, contractor renewal, leadership enablement).

Key Responsibilities 

Talent Acquisition (the #1 outcome of this role):

• Recruiting Pipeline Management: Source candidates across LinkedIn, job boards, freelancer platforms, and referrals; filter applicants for red flags, competency match, and scorecard alignment.

• Test Project &amp; Interview Operations: Run test projects, review submissions, conduct first-round group interviews, and manage candidate experience end-to-end.

• Sourcing Channel Optimization: Manage and optimize sourcing channels based on performance; build "always hiring" shortlists for recurring high-leverage roles.

• Employer Brand &amp; Glassdoor Defense: Monitor and manage Glassdoor reviews, organize team review drives, ask for feedback, flag issues, protect brand rating.

• Hiring Metrics &amp; Funnel Reporting: Deliver weekly hiring pipeline reports broken down by channel and role; track funnel performance against KPIs.

People Operations:

• People Systems Leadership: Design and implement systems for engaging, onboarding, and retaining talent, aligned with the company's growth objectives.

• Organizational Design and Capacity Planning: Collaborate with leadership to ensure that the organizational structure and workforce planning meet the evolving needs of the business.

• Performance and Development Frameworks: Establish performance expectations, evaluation frameworks, and development pathways that drive accountability and growth across the organization.

• Talent Experience and Retention: Build a consistent and professional experience for talent that reinforces employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention.

• Workforce Insights and Reporting: Provide insights and data-driven recommendations to leadership to guide decision-making and improve workforce effectiveness.

How Success Is Measured

Talent Acquisition KPIs:

• Average time to fill open roles: under 45 days.

• Weekly applicant volume per active role: 250+ qualified applicants.

• Weekly hiring pipeline report by sourcing channel: 100% completion, on time.

• Completed candidate case studies available for review per role per week: 15+.

• Glassdoor company rating: maintain 4.5+ average across the year.

People Operations KPIs:

• Successful implementation of people systems that directly support the business's ability to scale.

• Strong employee retention rates, with high performance and engagement.

• Improved leadership confidence in people systems, talent readiness, and organizational alignment.

• Predictable, scalable people operations that contribute to the company's growth and success.

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