About the position
The job overview for the Brand Designer role at kevin. involves interpreting design briefs to generate creative ideas, developing concepts and content that solve business problems through strategic design, and creating visual identity systems that scale across channels, mediums, geographies, and languages. The successful candidate should have 4-6 years of experience as a Brand Designer, a passion and ability for branding and visual identity systems, strong communication skills, and an obsession with design fundamentals and visual design skills. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits, including private health insurance, the latest Apple MacBook and accessories, and the opportunity to work with talented and committed team members who are the best in their field.
Responsibilities
- Interpret design briefs to generate creative ideas, develop concepts and contently solve business problems through strategic design solutions for all types of assets and collateral that drive business results including, but not exclusively, our website, campaigns, presentations, digital ads, landing pages, infographics, social media graphics, printed collateral and event graphics.
- Help build and manage a visual identity system that scales across channels, mediums, geographies, and languages to accompany our brand as we expand.
- Create sketches, moodboards, mockups, and prototypes to visualise and effectively communicate your ideas.
- Test and refine creative concepts based on data, research and insights.
- Ensure adherence to all design best-practices and fundamentals.
- Help manage a brand content management system by keeping assets up to date, organised and easily accessible for others.
Requirements
- Interpret design briefs to generate creative ideas, develop concepts and contently solve business problems through strategic design solutions for all types of assets and collateral that drive business results including, but not exclusively, our website, campaigns, presentations, digital ads, landing pages, infographics, social media graphics, printed collateral and event graphics.
- Help build and manage a visual identity system that scales across channels, mediums, geographies, and languages to accompany our brand as we expand.
- Create sketches, moodboards, mockups, and prototypes to visualise and effectively communicate your ideas.
- Test and refine creative concepts based on data, research and insights.
- Ensure adherence to all design best-practices and fundamentals.
- Help manage a brand content management system by keeping assets up to date, organised and easily accessible for others.
- 4-6 years of experience as a Brand Designer, with previous experience working with businesses moving through brand changes (rebrand/brand refresh), either agency side or brand side.
- Understanding of branding – how our impact and meaningful difference comes through when we consistently look, sound and feel like kevin. across all channels and media.
- Passion and ability for branding and visual identity systems.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to relay proposed design solutions to stakeholders who may not have a design background.
- Obsession with design fundamentals and visual design skills.
- In-depth knowledge of recognised design industry tools and platforms (e.g. InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, Notion, Milanote).
- Awareness of graphic design industry and trends.
- Ability to work under pressure, to tight and frequently changing deadlines.