Conceptual Designer

Who you are

• 5-7+ years into your creative career, with strong thinking, craft, and a portfolio that shows what you can do
• Curious, collaborative, and highly motivated
• Strong conceptually, with excellent craft in art direction, design, and visual storytelling
• Comfortable balancing creative ambition with commercial objectives
• Interested in using data, testing, and audience insight to improve creative performance
• Passionate about branding, storytelling, travel, and culture
• Excited by emerging creative tools and technologies, including AI
• Ready to be part of an idea-first, progressive in-house studio
• Have experience working within an advertising agency or strong creative environment
• Have a portfolio demonstrating thorough conceptual thinking and execution across multiple formats
• Demonstratable experience working across digital, social, film, OOH, and emerging platforms
• Have a natural instinct for typography, composition, motion, and storytelling
• Have strong communication and collaboration skills
• Be highly organised and comfortable managing multiple projects at once
• Have a genuine passion for travel and creativity
• Experience in production process/motion design advantageous

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Conceptual Designer/Art Director with strong advertising agency or brand-side creative experience to join KAYAK’s in-house creative team, based in London
• You might come from a brand design background, a traditional creative team, a social-first environment, or somewhere in between
• What matters most is that you know how to develop strong ideas, craft visually compelling work, and bring campaigns to life across multiple channels
• At KAYAK, creativity plays a central role in how we grow our brands
• We’re looking for someone with strong visual instincts - someone who can turn product truths, cultural insight, and business challenges into work people actually notice
• Work that entertains, builds the brand, and drives performance
• You should be ready to take ownership of projects, combining concept and design with a hands-on, collaborative attitude
• As comfortable having and communicating your ideas as you are bringing them to life in a progressive studio setting
• Develop creative concepts and visual executions across brand, performance, social, video, digital, OOH, and emerging platforms
• Help take ideas from brief through execution while maintaining a high level of craft
• Create visually distinctive work that cuts through in a crowded category
• Partner with writers, marketers, motion designers, and product teams to create cohesive, insight-led creative
• Contribute to visual identity, campaign platforms, moodboards, presentations, and creative strategy
• Translate product truths and business challenges into emotionally resonant visual storytelling
• Use testing and performance insights to refine creative and improve results
• Help maintain and elevate creative standards across the team

Benefits

• Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
• Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
• Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
• Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
• Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
• Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms