Designer & Illustrator at Gecko Five

Overview

• This role reports to the Lead Designer / Illustrator and works closely with our content editors, marketing team, and growth team.
• You will work with the art department to bring big branded content ideas to life through pitch decks, mock-ups, social media design, and more.
• This junior designer will use a combination of design knowledge and inquisitive curiosity to create content for both Gecko Five content channels.
• An interest in football and sports is a plus, as you will work closely on creative visual material for sports passionate audiences.
• This role is a great place to launch a career in advertising and media where you will be challenged to wear multiple hats, liaise with various departments across the organization, and engage with a broad scope of advertisers.

You Will

• Work collaboratively with the branded content team and production team to visually tell stories about what’s next about global sports culture for Africans.
• Have a multi-faceted design capacity to shift between various types of design work, moving beyond designing for digital interfaces and mobile to designing printed event collateral, presentation design, and more.
• Be passionate about working on a suite of websites/media accounts dedicated to millennial Africans and various topics surrounding football and sports.

You Are

• An intermediate / early expert: with an internship or other previous team experience under your belt, you’re ready to take on a new and exciting role.
• Technical: You are a master of the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Collaborative: You love to brainstorm and work with others, whether you are 1-1 with an art director or rolling your sleeves up with the team, you do your part to contribute to the creation of a killer execution.
• Communicative: As a designer, your goal is to communicate a complex set of ideas, visually, in the most simplistic and direct, manner. That expertise in communication should be expressed in all of your dealings with team members across the organization.
• Detailed Oriented: You are able to manage multiple projects at once while maintaining attention to detail with each project.
• A self-starter: always curious and excited to learn with one finger to the pulse of the latest trends in youth culture, advertising, and media.

Salary
NGN 80,000 - 140,000 Monthly.