Graphic Designer

Remote (Philippines) | Contractor (full-time)

Location: Remote (Philippines), with in-person team meetups in Manila quarterly
Engagement: Full-time contractor, with paid public holidays, annual leave and sick leave
Experience: 3–5 years of professional design experience and/or a relevant degree
Team: Our growing Philippines-based creative team
You'll love it if: you have a strong eye, clear creative opinions and want to grow your skills with AI and emerging tools

About Kitto
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Kitto is a specialist marketing agency working exclusively within the recruitment industry. We partner with recruitment businesses around the world to help them stand out through strategic, creative marketing. Our services include branding, design, video production, animation, and copywriting.

We operate as a fully remote global team, collaborating across time zones to deliver high-quality creative solutions. We embrace AI as part of how we work, using it to work smarter while keeping creative thinking and quality at the centre of everything we deliver.

The role
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We are looking for an experienced Graphic Designer to join our growing creative team. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality visual assets across a wide range of client projects, supporting recruitment brands at different stages of growth.
We are not looking for generic, templated design output. We want someone with a strong eye, clear creative opinions, awareness of trends, and evidence of this in their portfolio.

You will be joining a growing Philippines-based function that is increasingly central to the success of the wider agency, working from home, with in-person meetups twice a year for collaboration and celebrations. You should be reasonably accessible to Manila for these.

What you'll do
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Design and creative delivery:

• Create high-quality visual assets across print and digital channels, including social media, presentations, brochures, and branded documents
• Design logos and visual identities in line with client briefs and brand guidelines
• Produce assets for both organic and campaign-based marketing activity
• Use AI tools where they add value, for example in ideation, mock-ups, image editing and producing asset variations, applying your own judgement to every output
• Ensure all creative work meets brand, quality, and accessibility standards

Collaboration and communication:

• Work closely with account managers and the creative team to understand briefs, objectives, and timelines
• Clearly communicate design concepts and rationale to internal stakeholders
• Participate in feedback and iteration cycles, refining designs based on client and internal input
• Share what you learn about new tools and techniques, helping shape how the creative team works

Brand and quality control:

• Maintain consistency across all client brand touchpoints
• Apply strong design thinking to solve visual communication challenges
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising workloads effectively and flagging capacity issues when required

How we use AI:
We use AI to work smarter, not to replace creative thinking. You will be encouraged to explore and adopt AI tools that speed up production, unlock new ideas and raise the quality of what we deliver, while your eye, judgement and craft stay at the heart of the work. We are looking for someone who:

• Is curious about AI and actively experiments with new tools and techniques
• Can use AI tools (e.g. Adobe Firefly, Photoshop Generative Fill, Canva AI, Midjourney or similar) to support ideation, asset creation and image editing
• Applies strong creative judgement to AI output, knowing when to use it, when to refine it and when not to use it at all
• Uses AI responsibly, respecting client confidentiality, brand guidelines and intellectual property

You do not need to be an expert. We care more about curiosity and a willingness to learn than about knowing every tool.

What you'll bring
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Essential:

• Design capabilities. You must be confident creating:
• Social media assets for multiple platforms (including LinkedIn)
• Brochures and professionally designed documents
• A wide range of print and digital assets (e.g. event banners, business cards, email signatures)
• PowerPoint presentations
• Logos and visual identity elements

Skills:

• Strong understanding of typography, colour theory, layout, and composition
• Strong written and spoken English, demonstrated through qualifications or professional experience
• Clear and confident communication, including explaining and justifying design decisions to non-design stakeholders
• Excellent time management and organisational ability, comfortable in a fast-paced agency environment with multiple concurrent briefs
• A growth mindset and a genuine interest in developing your skills with AI and emerging tools

Tools:

• Adobe Creative Suite (particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign)
• Canva
• Microsoft 365 (particularly Word and PowerPoint)

Nice to have. Experience in the following would be an advantage, but is not required:

• Animation
• Photo editing (e.g. headshots, office photography)
• Video editing (e.g. podcasts, social media clips)
• Newsletters and landing pages
• Brand design and development
• Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
• A strong point of view on design and creative direction
• Awareness of current design trends and the ability to apply them appropriately
• Evidence of continued professional development

If you are developing skills in any of the above, we welcome examples of self-led learning or practical application.

About you
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We are looking for someone who is:

• Collaborative and team-oriented
• Confident but not ego-driven, with strong creative judgement and pride in producing thoughtful, considered work
• Trustworthy and dependable
• Proactive in communicating workload and challenges
• Motivated to grow with the business as we continue to expand, and to keep evolving your skills as the industry and its tools change

Your portfolio
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A strong portfolio demonstrating a range of design work is essential. It should show more than basic layout work: we are looking for evidence of concept development, visual judgement, and considered design thinking.

Examples of AI-assisted work are welcome. If you include any, add a short note on your process and how you used AI alongside your own design skills.

What we offer
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• Fully remote working
• Structured contractor engagement with paid public holidays, annual leave, and sick leave entitlement
• A collaborative and supportive team environment
• Exposure to a wide variety of global recruitment brands
• Opportunities to develop skills across branding, campaigns, and emerging tools, including AI
• Support and time to build your AI skills, experimenting and learning alongside the team
• Mentoring and professional support
• Twice-yearly in-person team meetups

Kitto is committed to maintaining fair and transparent holiday and sickness policies that support work/life balance and wellbeing across our global team.