Brand Designer

Who we are

Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in Africa.
Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023, and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in Nigeria.

Job Summary

We’re looking for a Brand Designer to join our corporate comms and Content Studio in Nigeria. As an excellent visual and motion designer, you’ll play a crucial role in helping our in-house creative team create and maintain impactful and consistent visual assets that resonate with our global audience.

The ideal candidate will be someone who can think of big ideas and pay attention to little details at the same time. We’re looking for an ambitious and passionate creative who knows how to take ownership of tasks, collaborate effectively, and implement feedback while working closely with other team members and project owners.

About the role

Location: Preferably based in Lagos and open to travel as needed.

Full time

Here’s how you’ll be powering dreams with our Content Studio team:

• Brand Identity Development: You’ll collaborate with team members and project owners to translate communication objectives and user insights into visually impactful designs that reinforce our brand identity and connect with the world our customers live in.
• Creative Storytelling: You’ll communicate ideas and beliefs with imagination and conviction, using creativity to challenge assumptions and explore new possibilities.
• End-to-End Visual Design: You’ll produce modern, high-end designs for publications, presentations, event experience booths, and various brand experiences, showing design applications through mockups/real-life scenarios and ensuring excellent execution from printers and fabricators.
• Motion Graphics and Illustration: Occasionally, you’ll create design illustrations and motion graphics to support social media content and other brand communications as needed.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Be Creative: We’re an ambitious team that loves to do things differently. You’ll use curiosity and creativity to challenge the status quo, bringing inspiration from everywhere to connect our brand to culture and the lives of our customers.
• Have Ownership: You’ll lead projects from start to finish, collaborating with team members and project owners to understand and help meet their objectives while ensuring brand consistency.
• Build Our Brand: You’ll work collectively within the team to evolve and develop our brand system to communicate effectively with our global audience.
• Make an Impact: You’ll join our mission to power dreams, creating work that resonates and drives brand engagement.

To succeed in this role, we think you should have

• Strong Portfolio: You have a portfolio of high-impact, consumer-facing work demonstrating excellent typographic, layout, hierarchy, and technical skills across both digital and print media.
• Marketing Understanding: You have a solid grasp of the marketing channels and know how to design with purpose. Experience with art direction, photography, and storyboarding is a plus.
• Creative Ideation: You’re comfortable generating creative ideas for various channels and can spot opportunities for brand storytelling.
• Collaborative Spirit: You’ve worked with copywriters and other creatives to shape messaging that enhances design.
• Presentation Skills: You’re confident in building presentations and taking stakeholders through your process, ideas, and solutions.
• Strategic Thinking: You’re solutions-focused, seeking to understand the real outcomes of a brief before diving into creative solutions.
• Organized and Proactive: You can manage complex projects, work with different teams, and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Technical Proficiency: You’re adept with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, or confident in quickly learning new tools if necessary.
• Bonus Skills: A basic knowledge of After Effects and/or Cinema 4D.

What to expect in the hiring process

• A preliminary phone call with the recruiter
• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• A case study
• A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team
• All interviews stages are Virtual