Senior Visual Designer

Skyscanner; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Skyscanner is recruiting a Senior Visual Designer to join our Brand Studio on a hybrid basis, shaping how the travel brand looks across digital and physical channels. You’ll craft distinctive work from concept to final asset, collaborating with Designers, Copywriters and Motion Designers, and ensuring alignment with our Visual Design System.

Based in London, Barcelona or Edinburgh, you’ll push culture, craft and typography with care.

Qualifications

• 7 years of client-side or agency experience with a portfolio of high-impact visual work.
• Ability to move between art direction and hands-on design, delivering end-to-end work.
• Exceptional eye for detail and cultural awareness shaping current design trends.

Responsibilities

• Create work across digital, social, print, OOH and experiential channels.
• Transform concepts into final assets using the Visual Design System.
• Shape Skyscanner’s global visual expression with modern design and technology.
• Collaborate with teams to develop global campaigns across markets.
• Apply craft from typography to layout, ensuring high-quality execution.

Skills

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

AI tools

Art direction

Typography

Brand concept

Tools

After Effects

Job description

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

About the role

(Hybrid)

We’re looking for a talented, hands-on Senior Visual Designer to join our world-class Brand Studio — a merry band of Creative Directors, Designers, Copywriters, Motion Designers and Design Ops specialists united by one goal: making work people actually want to look at.

You’ll combine big-picture conceptual thinking with exceptional visual craft, helping shape how Skyscanner shows up everywhere from TikTok and Instagram to YouTube, OOH and beyond. It’s a chance to influence the visual expression of a global travel brand, with ambitious briefs, healthy budgets and plenty of room for ideas to take flight.

You can be based in Barcelona, London or Edinburgh, where we adopt a hybrid working policy of working in the office twice a week.

What you'll be doing

• Creating work that turns heads: You’ll concept and craft distinctive, engaging creative across digital, social, print, OOH and experiential channels — making sure Skyscanner never fades into the background.
• Bringing big ideas to life: You’ll take concepts from the first scribble to beautifully executed final work, using our Visual Design System while knowing when and how to push it somewhere new.
• Shaping our visual expression: You’ll help evolve how Skyscanner looks and feels globally, balancing timeless design principles with what’s happening right now in design, technology and culture.
• Concepting campaigns that travel: You’ll collaborate with our creative team and partners across the business to develop global campaigns and projects that work brilliantly across markets and channels.
• Sweating the right details: You’ll bring serious craft to everything you touch, from art direction and typography to layout and execution — because the tiny details can make a very big difference.

About you

• A world-class creative: You’ve got 7 years of client-side or agency experience and a portfolio packed with beautifully crafted, original work that makes us wish we’d thought of it first.
• Conceptual and hands-on: You can move effortlessly between art direction, big-picture thinking and getting stuck into the design yourself — no disappearing once the mood board is approved.
• Craft obsessed: You have an exceptional eye for detail, strong design fundamentals and a genuine curiosity about culture, trends and where visual creativity is heading next.
• Fluent in the tools: You’re highly proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma, comfortable with the latest AI tools, and After Effects experience gets you bonus points.
• A brilliant teammate: You’re collaborative, self-motivated and organised, with strong prioritisation skills and a genuine interest in mentoring others — while still believing your best work is ahead of you.

What it's like here

We are the real deal— no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.