Graphic Designer and Illustrator at Sparkle Nigeria

Sparkle Nigeria is a bank and then more, licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), we are what most people would refer to as a digital bank. We offer financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians across the globe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Location: Nigeria
Category: Marketing & Communications

About the Role

• As our resident visual designer, your job is to help us to convey messages and information through illustrations, graphics, and patterns.
• You will be designing aesthetically pleasing graphics and illustrations that capture our brand and engage our customers. You’ll join our design team, but you’ll also be working closely with other departments including our marketing, people & culture and product teams.
• With Sparkle being a new challenger bank, you’ll have a fresh brand to play with. We are looking for someone with the appetite for new ideas, a creative flair and a strong ability to translate requirements into design.
• If you can communicate well and can collaborate methodically as part of a team, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities
What you get to do everyday:

• Collaboration: You’ll work in the design team but will be required to collaborate with other teams to understand design requirements, preferences and expectations in line with our brand design language. You will also be using feedback from other team members to improve on your designs such as the colour schemes and tone.
• Designing: This is a no-brainer. You’ll spend a lot of your time actually designing original graphics with unique colours, shapes and typography considering its usage across multiple channels and devices, web, mobile and print. You’ll be designing original graphics with unique colours, shapes, and typography fonts. Your designs will include but not limited to marketing and comms materials, social media posters, banners, flyers, illustrations, interfaces, logos and a lot more.
• Research: We are a digital bank so you’ll need to spend time understanding the finance space and gaining knowledge about available technologies, user interactions, current design trends and design best practices.

Requirements
Do Apply If:

• You have some experience in design: Ideally, you should have 1-2 years of experience in visual design for multiple channels. You should be proficient using design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign etc.) Experience using Affinty design, Adobe After Effects and Figma are a plus.
• You love collaborating with people: If you’re a standout colleague who loves working with cross-functional teams, then this role is for you.
• You have a fairly good understanding of visual design standards, typography, iconography and colours.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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