Senior Brand Designer

Job Description

Paystack is looking to hire a Senior Brand Designer who leads with art direction and executes with craft. You’ll shape how Paystack shows up across brand, marketing, product storytelling, and launch moments, and you’ll set a creative bar that levels up everyone around you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead creative direction on high-priority work. From storytelling campaigns and product launches to web, social, events, presentations, and merch, you’ll find the visual idea inside a brief and carry it through to polished execution.
• Build the brand system for scale. You’ll create a library of assets, templates, and guidelines that let cross-functional partners ship brand-aligned work independently, and define how non-design teams do this well using AI tools.
• Design and animate the work, hands-on. Day to day, you’ll be making the actual thing: campaign key visuals, social and web assets, motion pieces, launch graphics, event and merch design, and presentation systems. This is a making role as much as a directing one.
• Turn product and business stories into visual systems. You’ll make Paystack feel clear, trustworthy, useful, and distinctive across every surface people encounter it.
• Direct across disciplines. You’ll set the art direction for projects involving illustration, motion, photography, and video, working with teammates and external collaborators as needed.
• Ship across the full range of surfaces. A typical month might move from a launch campaign to a set of animated social posts to a pitch deck to event collateral. You’ll size the work realistically and deliver it finished.
• Partner with Brand Storytelling. You’ll shape the creative approach behind briefs and deliver work that serves both brand and business goals.
• Raise the bar. You’ll bring sharp creative judgment to the team by sharpening ideas and improving execution, including work that isn’t your own.
• Present and defend your thinking. You’ll explain the reasoning behind your creative choices clearly enough that stakeholders understand how the work answers the brief.
• Give and receive feedback. You’ll join design crits, share work early, and help the team sharpen its taste collectively.

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of design and art direction experience, ideally at a technology startup, agency, or product-led company.
• You are hands-on and senior in both brand and motion design. Your portfolio shows work you personally directed and work you personally made, and we can tell which is which.
• Your portfolio shows strong conceptual thinking, you can move past “this looks nice” to a clear idea, a reason it works, and metaphors that connects with the audience.
• You have excellent taste and visual judgment: a sharp eye for good design and can tell when something is almost working and name exactly what needs to change.
• You’re obsessive about the details that make work feel finished: image quality, styling, spacing, texture, colour balance, consistency, and production quality.
• Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Google Slides.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and benefits
• 13th month bonus
• TSG Equity compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Wellbeing stipend
• Generous leave policies
• Hybrid working environment
• Smart, kind colleagues who are invested in your growth.