Job Description
₦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