<div> 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 <ul style="margin-bottom:30px;"><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:8px;">Visual Design &amp; Production<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Develop high-quality visual design across a broad range of deliverables, including integrated campaigns, digital assets, presentations, print collateral, internal communications, and brand materials</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Manage projects from creative brief through to final delivery with accuracy, quality control, and attention to detail at every stage</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Maintain and apply brand guidelines consistently across all outputs, ensuring visual coherence across channels and formats</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:8px;">Conceptual Thinking &amp; Creative Development<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Translate creative briefs into well-considered visual concepts, bringing strategic and aesthetic thinking together from the outset</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Contribute actively to creative ideation sessions and campaign development, offering ideas and visual direction—not just execution</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Apply an art director's sensibility to layout, typography, hierarchy, composition, and brand storytelling across all work</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Help evolve and elevate the brand system over time, identifying opportunities to strengthen and advance creative standards</li></ul></li></ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:30px;"><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:8px;">Collaboration &amp; Creative Relationships<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Work in close creative partnership with copywriters, strategists, and marketers to develop work that is both visually compelling and strategically sound</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Engage constructively with creative briefs from across the business, asking the right questions to ensure design decisions serve the intended message and audience</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Present design work clearly and with confidence—articulating the thinking behind visual decisions and responding to feedback as part of a healthy creative dialogue</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Collaborate with external creative partners, photographers, and production studios in a design or art direction support capacity where relevant</li><li style="margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:20px;">Build trusted working relationships within the creative team, contributing positively to a culture of craft, curiosity, and shared creative ambition</li></ul></li></ul>Skills and Experience<ul><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">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</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">An emerging art direction sensibility: a considered approach to visual storytelling, typographic hierarchy, layout, and campaign-level thinking</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">A genuine understanding of brand: how visual systems hold together, why consistency matters, and how to evolve a brand without breaking it</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Commercial awareness and a clear sense of how design functions within business and marketing contexts</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">A collaborative, solutions-oriented working style that is proactive without being directive</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Comfort working in a structured, process-driven environment while maintaining creative curiosity and ambition</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Adobe Creative Suite — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign (advanced working knowledge required)</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Figma — for digital design, component-based thinking, and collaborative review workflows</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Presentation design — Microsoft PowerPoint and/or Apple Keynote, to a high standard of layout and communication design</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Typography, grid systems, brand identity, and campaign design</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Print production knowledge — understanding of specifications, pre-press, and supplier management</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Experience working in an in-house creative team within a corporate, financial services, consulting, professional services, or enterprise brand environment</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including leadership-level presentation experience</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Exposure to campaign development from brief to execution, with involvement in creative direction or concept development alongside a senior creative</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">Experience attending or supporting photoshoots, creative productions, or agency briefings</li><li style="text-align:justify;margin-left:8px;">A track record of contributing to brand evolution projects—brand refreshes, guidelines development, or creative system-building.</li></ul>                                                  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).   </div>

BURN is working to create a world where cooking positively impacts all life on earth by producing the world&rsquo;s most efficient biomass, liquid fuel, and electric cookstoves. BURN is the largest vertically integrated modern cookstove company in the world, providing world-class R&amp;D, manufacturing, and carbon offset projects from our HQ in Kenya and across 10 countries in Africa. Our team &ndash; half of whom are women &ndash; produces and sells over 200,000 stoves per month at our solar-powered facility in Kenya. The company was founded by CEO Peter Scott, who is recognised as the global leader in cookstove commercialisation. BURN has received recognition for its cutting-edge innovation and environmental &amp; social impact from, among others Bloomberg New Energy Finance Award, Global Leap Awards, and Ashden International. BURN is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to creating the best workplace in the world. Visit BURN/careers if you would like to be part of a world-class team that is committed to making positive, measurable change for people, forests, and the climate.

Senior Designer

<div> 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 <ul><li>Visual Design &amp; Production<ul><li>Develop high-quality visual design across a broad range of deliverables, including integrated campaigns, digital assets, presentations, print collateral, internal communications, and brand materials</li><li>Manage projects from creative brief through to final delivery with accuracy, quality control, and attention to detail at every stage</li><li>Maintain and apply brand guidelines consistently across all outputs, ensuring visual coherence across channels and formats</li></ul></li><li>Conceptual Thinking &amp; Creative Development<ul><li>Translate creative briefs into well-considered visual concepts, bringing strategic and aesthetic thinking together from the outset</li><li>Contribute actively to creative ideation sessions and campaign development, offering ideas and visual direction—not just execution</li><li>Apply an art director's sensibility to layout, typography, hierarchy, composition, and brand storytelling across all work</li><li>Help evolve and elevate the brand system over time, identifying opportunities to strengthen and advance creative standards</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Collaboration &amp; Creative Relationships<ul><li>Work in close creative partnership with copywriters, strategists, and marketers to develop work that is both visually compelling and strategically sound</li><li>Engage constructively with creative briefs from across the business, asking the right questions to ensure design decisions serve the intended message and audience</li><li>Present design work clearly and with confidence—articulating the thinking behind visual decisions and responding to feedback as part of a healthy creative dialogue</li><li>Collaborate with external creative partners, photographers, and production studios in a design or art direction support capacity where relevant</li><li>Build trusted working relationships within the creative team, contributing positively to a culture of craft, curiosity, and shared creative ambition</li></ul></li></ul>Skills and Experience<ul><li>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</li><li>An emerging art direction sensibility: a considered approach to visual storytelling, typographic hierarchy, layout, and campaign-level thinking</li><li>A genuine understanding of brand: how visual systems hold together, why consistency matters, and how to evolve a brand without breaking it</li><li>Commercial awareness and a clear sense of how design functions within business and marketing contexts</li><li>A collaborative, solutions-oriented working style that is proactive without being directive</li><li>Comfort working in a structured, process-driven environment while maintaining creative curiosity and ambition</li><li>Adobe Creative Suite — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign (advanced working knowledge required)</li><li>Figma — for digital design, component-based thinking, and collaborative review workflows</li><li>Presentation design — Microsoft PowerPoint and/or Apple Keynote, to a high standard of layout and communication design</li><li>Typography, grid systems, brand identity, and campaign design</li><li>Print production knowledge — understanding of specifications, pre-press, and supplier management</li><li>Experience working in an in-house creative team within a corporate, financial services, consulting, professional services, or enterprise brand environment</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including leadership-level presentation experience</li><li>Exposure to campaign development from brief to execution, with involvement in creative direction or concept development alongside a senior creative</li><li>Experience attending or supporting photoshoots, creative productions, or agency briefings</li><li>A track record of contributing to brand evolution projects—brand refreshes, guidelines development, or creative system-building.</li></ul>                                                  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).   </div>

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