Senior Designer

BURN MANUFACTURING • Full-time • Nairobi, Nairobi • 2d ago

About the role
This is a design role for a creative with a strong portfolio, a genuine interest in brand storytelling, and the instincts to work beyond pure execution. You will join an in-house creative team embedded within a corporate environment, contributing directly to how our brand shows up across every channel, audience, and touchpoint.

We are looking for someone at a meaningful juncture in their career: past the learning curve of junior production, not yet in a formal art direction position, but already demonstrating the visual intelligence and conceptual thinking that will take them there. You can translate a brief into a compelling creative response, shape visual narratives with purpose, and make strong independent decisions—while still operating effectively within a structured organisation and benefiting from senior creative guidance.

In this role, you will balance creative ambition with commercial reality. You understand that great design in a corporate context means marrying visual craft with business objectives, brand consistency, and stakeholder needs. You are collaborative, clear-headed under pressure, and serious about doing the work well.

Duties and Responsibilities

Visual Design & Production
- Develop high-quality visual design across a broad range of deliverables, including integrated campaigns, digital assets, presentations, print collateral, internal communications, and brand materials
- Manage projects from creative brief through to final delivery with accuracy, quality control, and attention to detail at every stage
- Maintain and apply brand guidelines consistently across all outputs, ensuring visual coherence across channels and formats
Conceptual Thinking & Creative Development
- Translate creative briefs into well-considered visual concepts, bringing strategic and aesthetic thinking together from the outset
- Contribute actively to creative ideation sessions and campaign development, offering ideas and visual direction—not just execution
- Apply an art director's sensibility to layout, typography, hierarchy, composition, and brand storytelling across all work
- Help evolve and elevate the brand system over time, identifying opportunities to strengthen and advance creative standards

Collaboration & Creative Relationships
- Work in close creative partnership with copywriters, strategists, and marketers to develop work that is both visually compelling and strategically sound
- Engage constructively with creative briefs from across the business, asking the right questions to ensure design decisions serve the intended message and audience
- Present design work clearly and with confidence—articulating the thinking behind visual decisions and responding to feedback as part of a healthy creative dialogue
- Collaborate with external creative partners, photographers, and production studios in a design or art direction support capacity where relevant
- Build trusted working relationships within the creative team, contributing positively to a culture of craft, curiosity, and shared creative ambition

Skills and Experience

Approximately five years of professional design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual and craft-led thinking across a variety of formats and contexts
An emerging art direction sensibility: a considered approach to visual storytelling, typographic hierarchy, layout, and campaign-level thinking
A genuine understanding of brand: how visual systems hold together, why consistency matters, and how to evolve a brand without breaking it
Commercial awareness and a clear sense of how design functions within business and marketing contexts
A collaborative, solutions-oriented working style that is proactive without being directive
Comfort working in a structured, process-driven environment while maintaining creative curiosity and ambition
Adobe Creative Suite — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign (advanced working knowledge required)
Figma — for digital design, component-based thinking, and collaborative review workflows
Presentation design — Microsoft PowerPoint and/or Apple Keynote, to a high standard of layout and communication design
Typography, grid systems, brand identity, and campaign design
Print production knowledge — understanding of specifications, pre-press, and supplier management
Experience working in an in-house creative team within a corporate, financial services, consulting, professional services, or enterprise brand environment
Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including leadership-level presentation experience
Exposure to campaign development from brief to execution, with involvement in creative direction or concept development alongside a senior creative
Experience attending or supporting photoshoots, creative productions, or agency briefings
A track record of contributing to brand evolution projects—brand refreshes, guidelines development, or creative system-building.

Qualified Female Candidates encouraged to Apply

BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).