Job Opportunity // Visual Designer with Kwara

Job Opportunity // Visual Designer with Kwara

Our member Kwara, is looking for a Visual Designer, who will together with the company’s Marketing Lead be responsible for building on the company’s existing brand and making it a visually appealing part of every aspect of our product, website, and social media 

About the Company

Kwara is a B2B fintech startup in Nairobi and Berlin with a unique mission, exceptional team and a global market. Kwara’s mission is to digitize Savings and Credit Unions in emerging markets that serve the 3 billion un-and underbanked population. 

These financial institutions hold a staggering $2.6 trillion in assets worldwide but have yet to benefit from digital innovation.

Kwara’s intuitive, secure and SaaS-based digital banking platform offers them the chance to grow their profits, connect to the digital ecosystem and serve their members better.With a dozen happy clients in Kenya, an ambitious team and a burning desire to grow at least tenfold in 2020, Kwara is on its way to become a world-wide market leader in cooperative fintech.

About the Responsibilities

• Designing, writing and producing online marketing assets (landing pages, email campaigns, social media assets, sales collateral, published content, and more) for Kwara’s customers end-to-end.
• Designing successful offline content for ads on billboards and print news articles
• Tell stories and craft a visually smart-looking startup, ranging from neat investor pitch decks to wall-sized ecosystem maps that help people understand the product and its value for them
• Design creative ways to communicate to new and old team members culture topics such as values, OKRs, mission and vision
• Creating and testing visuals for recruitment, investment and media purposes 
• Collaboration and aligning with various team members to create material 
• Constantly learn from our users to determine how they want to use Kwara, how to teach them to do more with the product, and how to engage new users.
• Measure how marketing materials are performing, and figure out how to make changes to increase engagement and conversions.

Requirements

Our team is looking for highly motivated candidates with the following qualifications:

• Independent creative with a strong sense for a common mission with at least 3-5 years of visual design experience, ideally producing marketing assets. 
• You’re a masterful communicator, able to draw people in and enhance understanding through design and written language.
• You’re quick to get a feel for the colors, patterns and strategies employed by the current team and merge your own relevant portfolio experience to make it better.
• You can produce graphics, videos, and GIFs with a high level of craft and attention to detail.
• You’re a strong writer with a bit of edge and play in your voice.
• Bonus: Love to combine art and technology. Coding abilities so you can build what you design. An understanding of how things work behind the scenes goes a long way.

If this is you, apply for the job here!