Conceptual Designer

KAYAK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks paid vacation

Private health & dental insurance

Company-paid therapy sessions

Job summary

KAYAK, a Booking Holdings brand, is hiring a Conceptual Designer/Art Director to join its London-based in-house creative team. You will develop standout concepts and visuals across brand and performance channels, collaborating with writers, marketers, motion designers, and product teams.

The role requires ownership, craft, and a progressive studio mindset, with at least 3 days in the London office. We value strong branding sensibilities, storytelling ability, and a passion for travel and

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years into your creative career with a portfolio showing strong thinking and craft.
• Curious, collaborative, and highly motivated to push creative boundaries.
• Strong conceptually with craft in art direction, design and storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative concepts and visual executions across brand, performance, social, video, digital, OOH, and emerging platforms.
• Take ideas from brief through execution with a high level of craft.
• Create visually distinctive work that cuts through in a crowded category.
• Collaborate with writers, marketers, motion designers, and product teams to ensure cohesive, insight-led creative.
• Contribute to visual identity, campaign platforms, moodboards, presentations and creative strategy.

Skills

Conceptual design

Art direction

Brand design

Collaboration

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 resonant visual storytelling
• Use testing and performance insights to refine creative and improve results
• Help maintain and elevate creative standards across the team

Please apply if you are:

• 5-7+ years into your creative career, with strong thinking, craft, and a portfolio that shows what you can do
• Curious, collaborative, and highly motivated
• Strong conceptually, with excellent craft in art direction, design, and visual storytelling
• Comfortable balancing creative ambition with commercial objectives
• Interested in using data, testing, and audience insight to improve creative performance
• Passionate about branding, storytelling, travel, and culture
• Excited by emerging creative tools and technologies, including AI
• Ready to be part of an idea‑first, progressive in‑house studio

You should ideally:

• Have experience working within an advertising agency or strong creative environment
• Have a portfolio demonstrating thorough conceptual thinking and execution across multiple formats
• Demonstratable experience working across digital, social, film, OOH, and emerging platforms
• Have a natural instinct for typography, composition, motion, and storytelling
• Have strong communication and collaboration skills
• Be highly organised and comfortable managing multiple projects at once
• Have a genuine passion for travel and creativity
• Experience in production process/motion design advantageous

Benefits and Perks:

• 5 weeks of paid vacation
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Private health & dental insurance
• Income protection and life assurance
• Pension plan contributions
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being: Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to Headspace
• Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth: Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousand of on‑demand e‑learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Employee Assistance Program - including 24/7 GP & free legal advice
• Discounted gym membership
• Bike2Work
• Season ticket loan
• Social events & Thursday happy hours
• Free lunch 2 days per week

Inclusion

At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.

Need an accommodation for the interview, application or on the job? No problem - just give us a heads‑up. We’ve got you.

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