Spiking – Creative Communication Designer

At Spiking, we are passionate about stock markets investing, data and advanced analytics. Our people consist of the best talent in the industry who have come together and are always pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of financial technology's greatest challenges.

We are looking for a Creative Designer to lead Spiking’s innovative communication and branding efforts. You will play a key role in captivating a next-generation mobile applications for retail investors around the world.

Creative Designer is in charge of designing and producing in-house marketing and publicity collaterals and preparing branding and marketing materials (inspiring campaign posters, viral videos, infographics, gifs, avatars etc.)

You are ideally obsessed with social media, in engaging readers, and growing audiences and traffic. You should have an outstanding eye for trending news stories, viral content and a passion for digital content from breaking news to premium video.

You will work with small and fast-paced team, take responsibilities and an immediate impact from day one. You will be completely immersed in the world of social media and digital content, working to ensure all of our brands’ social media channels are pixel perfect to grow our audience, traffic, engagement, and brand awareness on a large scale.

*Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two.*

What you bring to the Spiking team:

1. Drive the evolution of our brand. You’ll lead a variety of design projects, moving seamlessly between mediums from videos to infographics. You’ll come up with innovative designs and fresh content ideas especially on our Social Media platforms.

2. Collaborate with marketing and product designer to establish design consistency and the visual language of our products.

3. Powerful visual storyteller, well versed in working collaboratively with a team to create the right narrative to appeal to an audience.

4. Passionate about creating genuinely new ideas, experiences and designs.

5. Articulate and possess excellent verbal and written communications as well as strong interpersonal skills.

Must haves:

- A desire to thrive in our unique culture as well as a good knowledge of stock exchanges!

- A portfolio that demonstrates your range of creativity across both digital and print realms.

- Strong visual design, branding, and advertising experience.

- Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously without the support of a large team, working both independently and in close collaboration with a wide variety of stakeholders.

- Ability to self-motivate in a fast paced, multifaceted environment.

- Strong communication abilities to continuously provide and receive constructive, actionable feedback to and from colleagues and partners.

- Stay on track with emerging digital trends, culture and engaging with the wider digital creative community.

- An in depth knowledge of Creative Suite packages, excellence at designing for print and digital, delivering digital-ready files, setting up artwork and confident passing print on press.

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Why Spiking
As a financial investors focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Spiking team. We believe in hiring the best and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. We offer competitive salary, employee stock options, accelerated growth in responsibility and experience, move fast culture.