At Cahoot Learning, we design and deliver workforce learning initiatives within companies, government agencies and industry bodies to help them create a culture of learning and to deliver on specific education projects and strategic goals. Cahoot Learning is brilliant at creating communities where people come together, learn, and grow their capabilities through collaboration and by building relationships at scale.
Cahoot Learning is a team of learning designers, product builders, developers, problem-solvers, achievers, and friends.
About the role
As our Visual Branding Designer, you will play a key role in shaping the visual identity of our learning platform, ensuring consistency and alignment across our diverse product offerings. You will work closely with the Product Manager and Client Lead to design and implement compelling visual themes for our platform, marketing materials, and client collateral. Your work will directly impact the way clients experience our platform, and your designs will represent both our brand and their individual needs.
The Visual Branding Designer role currently reports to the Product Manager & Client Lead and is a full time position with standard working hours working from home. For the right candidate, working hours can be negotiated to accommodate individual needs.
As a representative of Cahoot Learning, you will strive to:
- Be your authentic self.
- Lead with innovation and creativity.
- Demonstrate strong communication skills and work collaboratively.
- Help make decisions and demonstrate critical thinking.
- Embrace challenge and change.
- Demonstrate confidence and conviction when working with clients, facilitators, and experts.
Deliverables include:
- Visual branding & Client experience
- Lead the creation of visual identities for our products, ensuring that branding is consistent across the platform from large product themes to individual learning elements.
- Translate client brand guidelines into visual elements that align with their specific needs while maintaining a cohesive and user-friendly experience across the platform.
- Develop and maintain visual systems that are adaptable to both playful and corporate environments, depending on client requirements.
- Collaborate with the product and client teams to ensure that branding and visual elements align with client expectations and our platform's user experience.
- Marketing & collateral design.
- Design and maintain templates for client-facing reports, proposals, and presentations that reflect a professional, polished look and align with our overall brand identity.
- Create visually engaging graphics that communicate our product offerings, pedagogies, and philosophies in an accessible and engaging manner.
- Lead the design of visuals for marketing campaigns, including our website, social media, and other digital channels, ensuring consistency with our visual brand identity.
- UI advisory (Secondary role)
- Provide guidance and support on user interface (UI) design best practices, ensuring ease of navigation and intuitive user experiences within the platform.
- Contribute ideas and feedback during brainstorming sessions around how our platform could evolve visually and functionally, though UI ownership will remain with the development team.
- Stay up-to-date on emerging design trends, UI best practices, and user experience innovations to help us remain at the forefront of design thinking.
Our ideal candidate will possess:
- Proven experience in visual design and branding, particularly within digital platforms or online learning environments.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating experience with visual systems, user-centred design, and both playful and corporate branding.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Figma, Sketch, or other relevant design software.
- Experience in designing digital marketing materials (websites, social media graphics, digital ads, etc.).
- Strong understanding of typography, colour theory, composition, and visual storytelling.
- A keen eye for detail and the ability to deliver polished, professional designs under tight deadlines.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to take direction and also offer creative insights.
- Passion or interest in UI design with a curiosity to explore user experience and interface innovation (no extensive experience required).
- Experience in designing for web, responsive design, and mobile-first thinking is a plus.
Desirable attributes:
- A visual system mindset, with the ability to build scalable, flexible design systems that can evolve as products do.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating closely with product, marketing, and client teams.
- Ability to take abstract ideas or client input and translate them into clear, cohesive visual representations.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and capable of working independently and managing multiple design projects at once.
Place of Work:
We have a flexible approach to your workplace. Cahoot Learning’s office is in the Melbourne CBD. However, most of us are working from home (NSW, TAS, NZ, Malaysia, VIC).
Remuneration:
Starting salary of $75,000 per annum, increasing to $85,000 per annum on successful completion of probationary period plus super guarantee (currently 11.5%).
Please submit your application along with your resume and cover letter using the Quick Apply or Apply Now button. To be considered for the position, please complete the steps sent from our HR system's email address no-reply@swagapp.com to complete the application process.