Senior Brand Designer

Job title: Senior Brand Designer

Location: London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lisbon (including hybrid)

Kaluza wants to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach, by building the platform that will accelerate a sustainable, affordable and resilient energy transition. It’s a huge challenge, but often the toughest problems are the most rewarding to solve.

Since launching in 2019, Kaluza’s technology has been empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers.

From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting engagement. And most importantly, they enable suppliers' customers to drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies.

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working?

The Senior Brand Designer will sit within our fast-growing Marketing and Regulatory function and will work closely with product marketing, business development and external communications. This role will manage at least one direct report, a headcount that is planned to increase further throughout 2022. 

What will I be doing?

We are seeking an experienced Senior Brand Designer to shape and develop Kaluza’s visual brand strategy. This is an exciting and highly creative role with a mission of building a strong brand image so that Kaluza is recognised as the leading Software as a Service (SaaS) business in the energy space.

• Create and implement Kaluza’s visual branding strategy, ensuring the brand is visually engaging and consistent across multiple mediums, and enhances our written content
• Get hands-on to produce design assets in a range of formats as needed for marketing purposes and for stakeholders across the business 
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with all stakeholders sharing skills, knowledge and experience as a creative authority for the business
• Plan and resource projects working closely with the wider marketing team
• Manage a brand designer, coaching them and supporting their learning and continuous professional development
• Manage external agencies as needed 

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you’ll have/be

• Proven experience (at least 5 years) as a Brand Design Manager or Senior Brand Designer (or similar)
• You have extensive design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates high creative standards, strategic thinking and versatile design approach across platforms and mediums
• Video production and editing skills, fluency in Figma and core Adobe Creative Cloud including Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
• Experience in managing creative members of the team and workflow / process
• Experience creating branded assets for events, expertise in working with printers, merchandising, creating brand guides/toolkits/templates, Google Slides, art direction
• Nice to have: understands technical/software competitive brand space, experience with corporate global brands, localisation and business to business audience needs
• Commercially aware with a creative eye
• You will manage, prioritise and deliver your projects efficiently with the ability to react to business needs as necessary
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent attention to detail and understanding of the relationship between brand strategy and design
• You have an interest in and knowledge and understanding of brand elements and architecture
• You have a hands on and dynamic approach
• You have a strong ability to collate and present information in a clear, concise way
• You are a pragmatic and practical self-starter; an outcomes oriented person who can juggle multiple workstreams, loves to problem-solve and can efficiently drive a collaborative process
• You have outstanding organisational skills and project management expertise

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Our values are not words on a wall — they are at the heart of our culture. They are how we make decisions and how we treat each other. They are concrete and clear, and reflect what we as people, and as a business, really care about.

Kaluza’s vision is to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this?

From us you’ll get

• An additional 9% of your salary to spend on a wide range of benefits, including your pension, a selection of lifestyle, health and green benefits, or simply take it as cash!
• Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance
• 26 days holiday, including a day off for your birthday you can take at any point
• Flexible bank holidays, 5 of which you can choose to take whenever you like (3 are fixed days) 
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Discretionary annual bonus 
• A dedicated personal learning budget
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more...

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.