Senior Brand Designer

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Paystack is hiring a Senior Brand Designer in Lagos for a full-time hybrid role. You will lead art direction and hands-on design across brand, marketing, product storytelling, and launch moments, directing illustration, motion, photography, and video while also producing campaign visuals, social assets, motion pieces, and presentation systems. The role focuses on building scalable brand systems and raising the creative bar across the design team.

• Senior individual contributor role combining art direction with hands-on design and motion work
• Full-time hybrid position based in Lagos, Nigeria
• Own high-priority projects from concept through polished execution
• Direct across illustration, motion, photography, and video disciplines
• Build scalable brand asset libraries, templates, and guidelines for cross-functional teams
• Work spans campaigns, product launches, web, social, events, presentations, and merch

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Senior Brand Designer (Hybrid) at Paystack ⏲ Sep 9, 2026, 5:08 AM ⋕ View all Banking & Financial Services jobs Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack's mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Senior Brand Designer Location: Lagos Job type: Full-time (Hybrid) About Senior Brand Designer role You'll report to the Design Studio Lead and take full ownership of high-priority projects from early concept through polished execution. The Studio already has strong illustration and motion capabilities, so what we're adding is a sharp art director who can raise the ceiling on the work and sharpen the output of the whole team. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who is equally strong at two things: finding the visual idea inside a brief and building it themselves. You'll direct across illustration, motion, photography, and video, and you'll also do the hands-on work, especially in brand and motion design. If you want to direct but not make, this isn't the role. If you want to make but not think strategically, it isn't either. This is a full-time Lagos-based role. We're looking for 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. We'll trust you to Turn product and business stories into visual systems. You'll make Paystack feel clear, trustworthy, useful, and distinctive across every surface people encounter it. Give and receive feedback. You'll join design crits, share work early, and help the team sharpen its taste collectively. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Partner with Brand Storytelling. You'll shape the creative approach behind briefs and deliver work that serves both brand and business goals. You'll thrive in this role if you 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. 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 have a sensitivity to brand tone: knowing when work should feel expressive, restrained, commercial, editorial, functional, or story-led, and how to stay distinctive without tipping into decoration for its own sake. You're obsessive about the details that make work feel finished: image quality, styling, spacing, texture, colour balance, consistency, and production quality. You're imaginative but realistic; you understand timelines, resources, and production constraints, and can share clear execution estimates for your work. Craft & art direction Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Google Slides. You give art-direction critique that's specific and useful You can turn loose input into a clear creative direction: defining the visual problem, setting constraints, identifying references, and explaining why weaker directions should be dropped. Judgement, critique & delivery 5+ years of design and art direction experience, ideally at a technology startup, agency, or product-led company. You've built templates, guidelines, or asset libraries that help a brand scale consistently across teams. 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. Working across mediums & tone You can collaborate with other senior creatives: debating direction, pressure-testing ideas, and pointing out weak spots, without getting defensive or precious about your own work. You're comfortable presenting creative work to stakeholders and explaining the reasoning behind your decisions. You know how to make brand work that's useful and beautiful — work that clarifies a message, supports a story, and builds trust. Bonus points if you: Have built or prototyped with AI tools, or have a deep appreciation for design engineering and emerging creative workflows. Have experience: collaborating with photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, or animators — useful but not required; this role doesn't need deep photo or video production experience. Love helping other designers learn and grow, and are open to learning from them too. Have turned product UI into strong marketing or campaign visuals. Have experience: on brand or product campaigns for technology companies. How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online View all Jobs in Nigeria