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:
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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