Conceptual Designer

Job description

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business. As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. We’re looking for a Conceptual Designer/Art Director with strong advertising agency or brand-side creative experience to join KAYAK’s in-house creative team, based in London. You might come from a brand design background, a traditional creative team, a social-first environment, or somewhere in between. What matters most is that you know how to develop strong ideas, craft visually compelling work, and bring campaigns to life across multiple channels. At KAYAK, creativity plays a central role in how we grow our brands. We’re looking for someone with strong visual instincts - someone who can turn product truths, cultural insight, and business challenges into work people actually notice. Work that entertains, builds the brand, and drives performance. You should be ready to take ownership of projects, combining concept and design with a hands-on, collaborative attitude. As comfortable having and communicating your ideas as you are bringing them to life in a progressive studio setting. This role will be required to work from our London office at least 3 days per week. In this role, you will: Develop creative concepts and visual executions across brand, performance, social, video, digital, OOH, and emerging platforms Help take ideas from brief through execution while maintaining a high level of craft Create visually distinctive work that cuts through in a crowded category Partner with writers, marketers, motion designers, and product teams to create cohesive, insight-led creative Contribute to visual identity, campaign platforms, moodboards, presentations, and creative strategy Translate product truths and business challenges into emotionally resona…