kayak - Conceptual Designer
Requirements
• You should be ready to take ownership of projects, combining concept and design with a hands-on, collaborative attitude. As comfortable having and communicating your ideas as you are bringing them to life in a progressive studio setting. • This role will be required to work from our London office at least 3 days per week.
Responsibilities
• Develop creative concepts and visual executions across brand, performance, social, video, digital, OOH, and emerging platforms • Help take ideas from brief through execution while maintaining a high level of craft • Create visually distinctive work that cuts through in a crowded category • Partner with writers, marketers, motion designers, and product teams to create cohesive, insight-led creative • Contribute to visual identity, campaign platforms, moodboards, presentations, and creative strategy • Translate product truths and business challenges into emotionally resonant visual storytelling • Use testing and performance insights to refine creative and improve results • Help maintain and elevate creative standards across the team • PLEASE APPLY IF YOU ARE: • 5-7+ years into your creative career, with strong thinking, craft, and a portfolio that shows what you can do • Curious, collaborative, and highly motivated • Strong conceptually, with excellent craft in art direction, design, and visual storytelling • Comfortable balancing creative ambition with commercial objectives • Interested in using data, testing, and audience insight to improve creative performance • Passionate about branding, storytelling, travel, and culture • Excited by emerging creative tools and technologies, including AI • Ready to be part of an idea-first, progressive in-house studio • YOU SHOULD IDEALLY: • Have experience working within an advertising agency or strong creative environment • Have a portfolio demonstrating thorough conceptual thinking and execution across multiple formats • Demonstratable experience working across digital, social, film, OOH, and emerging platforms • Have a natural instinct for typography, composition, motion, and storytelling • Have strong communication and collaboration skills • Be highly organised and comfortable managing multiple projects at once • Have a genuine passion for travel and creativity • Experience in production process/motion design advantageous
Benefits
• 5 weeks of paid vacation • Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday • Private health & dental insurance • Income protection and life assurance • Pension plan contributions • Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year • Focus on mental health and well-being: • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth • Company-paid subscription to Headspace • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!) • No meeting Fridays • Paid parental leave • Paid volunteer time • Focus on your career growth: • Development Dollars • Leadership development • Access to thousand of on-demand e-learnings • Travel Discounts • Employee Resource Groups • Employee Assistance Program - including 24/7 GP & free legal advice • Discounted gym membership • Season ticket loan • Social events & Thursday happy hours • Free lunch 2 days per week • At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here. • Need an accommodation for the interview, application or on the job? No problem - just give us a heads-up. We’ve got you.
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