Founding Marketing Designer

• Location: Lagos, Nigeria
• Working model: Hybrid, with at least two days onsite each week
• Compensation: ₦700,000 to ₦1,100,000 per month

About Swoop

Swoop is building Africa's super-app, beginning with food delivery. We have raised $7.3 million and are building one of the most exciting teams in Lagos.

We are now hiring our Founding Marketing Designer.

The opportunity

This role starts before the brief exists.

You will help decide how Swoop should be positioned, what the brand should stand for, and how those choices should show up across every customer touchpoint. You will shape our brand identity from the ground up.

We need someone who can identify the underlying business or customer problem, form a clear point of view, develop the creative direction, and then make the work. The role combines brand strategy with hands-on execution across graphic design, motion design, videography, and editing.

The founding part matters. You will create the visual language, systems, and standards that future designers and marketers will build on.

What you will do

Develop Swoop's brand positioning and creative point of view

Help define what the Swoop brand should mean to customers

Turn customer insights and business goals into clear creative strategies

Set the creative direction for campaigns, launches, social media, paid advertising, and partnerships

Write and shape strong creative briefs with a clear audience, message, and objective

Build and evolve Swoop's visual identity

Create graphic design, motion graphics, and motion-led videos

Plan and execute video projects, including filming, editing, and post-production

Create reusable design systems and templates that help the team move quickly

Work closely with the founders and broader team to turn ideas into clear, memorable creative

Maintain a consistently high standard across every customer-facing design

What we are looking for

Strong strategic thinking about brand identity and positioning

The ability to work upstream of execution and determine what the work should communicate

A strong portfolio showing graphic design, motion design, videography and video editing, and motion-led video production

Portfolio case studies that explain the problem, your thinking, and why you made the creative choices you made

Strong fundamentals in typography, composition, colour, and visual storytelling

The ability to take a project from an early idea to a finished asset

Good judgment, attention to detail, and a high standard for craft

Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with substantial creative ownership

The ability to work onsite in Lagos for at least two days each week

We care deeply about the thinking behind your work. Your portfolio should make your taste, range, reasoning, and execution clear.

What we offer

₦700,000 to ₦1,100,000 per month

Healthcare

The opportunity to shape Swoop's positioning, brand identity, and design language from the ground up

A high level of creative ownership

The chance to work with one of the most exciting teams in Lagos

A hybrid working model

How to apply

Please submit:

Your portfolio

Your CV