Brand Designer and Illustrator at Moni

₦400k – ₦550k • No equity

What you’ll do

• Create illustrations to accompany social media content.
• Establish the illustration style for brand/marketing.
• Create a well documented process/guideline of the illustration process.
• Work closely with product designers, Brand Team, and other cross-functional partners to understand expectations and deliver high quality outputs.
• Work collaboratively with other designers to understand and translate product needs into designs that are visually enticing, easy to understand, and ensure a consistent, integrated brand perception and user-experience.
• Help define the Moni visual identity, pushing the look and feel of the brand.
• Translate brand strategy into powerful and purposeful creative concepts for various channels.
• Developing ideas that push the boundaries of product design and brand storytelling
• Stay on top of the latest standards, processes, and trends in the illustration field.

Requirements:

• 2 to 3 years experience as an illustrator.
• A portfolio that highlights aesthetic awareness, high caliber drawing skills, and command of multiple illustration styles.
• Extensive illustration experience and an ability to execute across a variety of styles, whilst aligning your aesthetic to the Moni brand
• Experience bringing ideas to life with high quality comps and prototypes use creative software and other tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate, InDesign).
• Experience in product design and design thinking.
• Experience creating and directing production-ready icons and illustrations that works across multiple platforms.
• Experience creating accessible, diverse illustrations and iconography systems.
• Strong illustration skills with range of styles.
• Experience developing mascots and characters.
• Possess excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain creative decisions in words and writing.

What it Takes to Succeed in the Role

• You're a conceptual thinker who is strategically-centred.
• You're detailed-oriented with a thinker/maker mindset.
• Strong illustration skills with range of styles.
• You're avid collaborator passionate for creativity and innovation.
• You've a keen eye for what makes a product design unique.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are excited about overcoming challenges, navigating ambiguity, and learning from setbacks in a fast-paced environment.
• You're a great communicator: you are able to listen to other teams needs, you ensure transparency and visibility on your roadmap and you value keeping stakeholders informed of progress and milestones.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage (Nigeria)
• Laptop
• The opportunity to work at a fast-growing, fast-paced startup
• A team that's invested in your growth