Creative Designer

Simba Corporation is an integrated business group headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with controlling interests in motor sales and service, hospitality, investment, and financial services. Founded in 1948, it has grown into one of Kenya's most successful corporations.

This role focuses on the visual identity of Simba Corporation Motors brands, translating brand, product, and campaign briefs into creative assets that are on-brand and engaging for the target audience. The designer will work across digital, print, showroom, events, merchandise, out-of-home, and other touchpoints. It is a hands-on position where the individual will manage key visuals, campaign artwork, and brand templates, produce static, motion, and multimedia content, oversee print and production quality, and maintain an efficient brief-to-delivery workflow to meet marketing deadlines.

1. Translate campaign, launch, and product briefs into clear creative concepts and key visuals.
2. Ensure consistent application of approved key visuals across all required formats, channels, and touchpoints.
3. Contribute visual ideas to campaign planning, aligning with commercial objectives.
4. Art-direct product photo and video shoots alongside the Digital Marketing Executive and agencies, providing shot lists and visual references.
5. Design social media assets for platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok to correct specifications.
6. Produce paid media creative in multiple sizes and variants to support testing and optimization.
7. Design email campaigns, website banners, and model page assets.
8. Create wireframes, mock-ups, and UI designs for website and landing page updates, collaborating with the tech team for accurate implementation.
9. Deliver digital assets on time according to the content calendar.
10. Design brochures, specification sheets, price lists, flyers, and other sales collateral.
11. Produce showroom and dealer point-of-sale materials, including window/wall graphics, standees, banners, and vehicle display cards.
12. Design out-of-home and large-format artwork, such as billboards and vehicle branding.
13. Prepare print-ready artwork with correct bleed, color profiles, and file specifications, and sign off proofs.
14. Design motion graphics, animations, and short-form video edits for launches, campaigns, social channels, and digital screens.
15. Produce model reveal animations, product feature explainers, and animated specification content.
16. Design artwork for vehicle launches, media events, roadshows, expos, and dealer activations, including stage backdrops, branded tents, signage, and merchandise.
17. Produce event presentation decks and on-screen content, coordinating with BTL/Activations.
18. Accurately apply each brand’s guidelines and principal corporate identity requirements across all work.
19. Apply the Simba Corporation identity and dealer co-branding rules correctly alongside each franchise brand.
20. Build and maintain master design templates for each brand covering social, print, point-of-sale, and presentation formats.
21. Submit artwork for approval where required and track approvals through to sign-off.
22. Keep working files organized and version-controlled, and hand final assets to the shared digital asset library.
23. Design sales enablement materials, including presentation decks, model comparison sheets, and fleet/tender proposal artwork.
24. Produce vehicle livery and fleet branding mock-ups to support commercial vehicle sales.
25. Support aftersales, parts, and service campaigns with promotional artwork and customer-facing materials.
26. Produce internal communications and presentations to corporate visual standards when required.
27. Run a structured brief intake process, confirming scope, formats, deadlines, and approvers.
28. Manage multiple projects across brands simultaneously, prioritizing against the commercial calendar.
29. Brief, manage, and quality-check external vendors, including printers, fabricators, and production companies.
30. Track design requests, turnaround, and revision rounds, flagging bottlenecks early.
31. Stay current with design trends, platform specifications, tools, and techniques, applying them to strengthen brand and commercial impact.
32. Use AI-assisted design tools to increase speed and variation without compromising brand quality or OEM compliance.
33. Review creative performance with the Digital Marketing Executive and Media Buyer, applying learnings to future work.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication, Multimedia Design, Creative Design, or a related field.
2. Minimum of four (4) years of experience as a Creative Designer or in a comparable role within an agency or corporate environment.
3. A strong portfolio demonstrating range across digital, print, large-format, and motion work.
4. Demonstrated experience designing for multiple brands simultaneously while keeping each identity distinct.
5. Proven experience taking work from concept through to print and production, including managing vendors.
6. Experience in a creative or advertising agency environment is preferred.
7. Familiarity with the automotive, mobility, or comparable considered-purchase industry is a plus.
8. Experience working to global principal or OEM brand guidelines and approval processes.
9. Experience with vehicle branding, exhibition, or retail environment design.
10. 3D visualization or CGI capability is an advantage.