Senior Brand Designer; Freelance

appflame - a Ukrainian IT company building world-class products:
Hily, Taimi, AdConnect.

Who we are today:

• 7 years on the market, 500+ employees, offices in Kyiv, London, and Limassol, plus a coworking space in Warsaw.
• In 2025, appflame ranked 5th among Ukraine’s 50 best employers according to Forbes and won in the “Place for Growth” category.
• Our apps Hily and Taimi are among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S., with over 70 million users. AdConnect and Mail keeper build and scale our own B2B and B2C solutions.

Our mission: Flame up the world with Ukrainian products.

Our goals:

• Reach the top 5 product companies in the world.
• Become a unicorn - and turn Ukraine into a country where unicorns are born and thrive.

We’re looking for daring, ambitious, and “a little crazy” people - those who love building real products and dream of launching cool startups. You have the ambition; we have the conditions to make it happen.

This role is for those who want to have an impact on how appflame’s employer brand is visually represented: the way 500+ teammates, thousands of candidates, and the market see us. It lives in our SMM, merch, internal comms, websites, L&D materials, and every deck that leaves the company.

This is a freelance role with a near full-time workload. There are a lot of tasks, and there will only be more - so we’re not looking for someone to occasionally close small design requests, but for an owner of appflame’s visual positioning.

• Own appflame’s visual positioning end-to-end - work within the existing brand system, develop it further, and keep one consistent visual language across all touchpoints.
• Design 360: social media, employer brand campaigns, internal and external communications, websites and landing pages, presentations, L&D materials, email communications.
• Take merch and print from concept to production-ready files - with a real understanding of what different production methods require.
• Add motion where it works: animated posts, banners, presentation accents.
• Turn briefs into ideas, not just layouts - bring your own vision, visual solutions, and creative concepts instead of waiting for a detailed task.
• Keep several parallel tasks moving, hit deadlines, and flag risks before they become problems.

• Have 3+ years in Brand Design / Graphic Design.
• Work comfortably across 360: SMM, merch, internal and external communications, websites, presentations, L&D materials, and email.
• Know the fundamentals cold - typography, composition, grids, color, visual hierarchy - and can tell at a glance when a layout breaks them.
• Prepare files for print and merch yourself, with a working understanding of what different production methods demand.
• Can animate when a static asset isn’t enough (After Effects or similar, basic level is fine).
• Use AI tools in your process to kill the routine and buy back time for the creative part.
• Bring a strong sense of style and an eye for trends - plus opinions about both.

• Experience working with Employer Brand.
• Experience designing for IT or product companies.
• A portfolio with strong motion or illustration work.

Freelance contract. The benefits below describe what we offer our full-time teammates - we’ll walk you through what applies to freelance collaboration on the intro call.

Work

Choose where you work best. Join our modern office with all the office benefits, or work remotely with modern equipment and a budget to set up your home workspace.

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical insurance in Ukraine or healthcare compensation abroad.
• Unlimited paid sick leave and 31 paid vacation days, including public holidays.
• Benefits Cafeteria budget.
• Additional on-site health and wellness benefits for…