Visual / Brand Designer
Yapily, United Kingdom
Job Description
Yapily enables fairer and better financial services for everyone through Open Finance.
Powering applications behind the scenes, we enable companies to seamlessly connect and securely access financial data to improve their customer experience. We provide connectivity for industry leaders including American Express, Intuit Quickbooks, Moneyfarm and BUX.
This is an incredibly exciting time to join the business as we begin to look towards expansion and growing the design team. We’ve raised $18.4m in funding to date, and backed by early investors in Skype, Spotify, Airbnb and Facebook as well as some of Europe’s biggest fintechs Klarna and Revolut. Headquartered in London, UK, we employ over 80 people and continue to scale rapidly.
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Brand Designer to join our creative team. In this role, you will work collaboratively with our design and marketing team to evolve and refine our visual brand and identity.
At Yapily, we believe that high quality and thoughtful communication is key to building a powerful brand. We’re seeking an individual with a strong, creative approach to design, an eye for detail, with an obsession for design quality. This is a hands-on design role in a fast-growth company.
Key responsibilities
- Evolve Yapily’s brand vision and identity - managing and developing guidelines whilst ensuring design consistency across the team, markets and channels.
- Build beautiful experiences across everything we do - from presentations, social media and downloadable content.
- Create consistent and flexible libraries of icons, images, illustrations, and user-friendly templates.
- Produce a range of impactful branded templates, documents and creative assets for internal and external channels.
- Build a library of source files for collaboration within the team.
- Inspire and motivate the design and marketing team with creative ideas.
- Creating concepts and delivering designs, in a fast-paced environment, working with cross-functional teams (with other designers, product, and marketing).
- 5+ years experience as a visual / brand designer.
- You are an excellent visual communicator with an ability to present complicated concepts in a simple way.
- Highly competent with Adobe Creative Suite - InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma. To bring these designs to life, Adobe After Effects and 3D is desirable.
- Experience in designing beautiful iconography and illustrations.
- Experience and knowledge in creating visual, dynamic design content for websites, social media platforms, and Google Slides.
- Should be able to handle both ad-hoc requests while thinking ahead strategically.
- You keep up to date with the latest design trends and best practices
- You are curious and open to new viewpoints to continually raise the bar for product innovation and quality
The application process consists of a 30 minute phone interview with one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists, followed by video interviews with the Compliance team and a competency-based interview. You might also meet with a member of the management team. We all currently work from home and all of our interviews are currently held on Google Meet or Zoom.
Competitive salary in a rapidly growing start-up
Stock Options (issued during the first year of employment)
Flexible working options (home-based and or flexible hours)
Diverse working environment