Visual Designer (Illustrator) in Headway

August 8, 2024

Visual Designer (Illustrator)

Kyiv, abroad, remotely

Headway is an EdTech startup that creates microlearning products. It is included in the GSV 150 list of the world's most influential companies transforming digital learning and specialist skills.

The company is also on the list of Europe's 50 top startups with the highest potential to become a "unicorn" within two years, according to market research by GP Bullhound.

In the ranking of the best IT employers 2023 by DOU, Headway is among the top five in two categories - "200-800 specialists" and "Leaders in cities" (Kyiv).

The company was founded in 2019. In 5 years, it grew from 3 to more than 250 people in the team and opened offices in Kyiv, Warsaw, Nicosia and London.

Headway products help develop 100+ million people in the world through concise formats of educational content: samaras, courses, games, infographics. The main one is the Headway app.

• #1 in the world for downloads in the book samara niche.
• Included in the top ten educational applications by sales in the US on the App Store and Google Play.
• Headway has been downloaded by more than 35M users worldwide.
• Apple brings the application to the top of the App Store in 170+ countries.
• In 2023, the application became App of the Day in the US five times in a row and received the Editor's Choice award from the App Store.

Headway is Ukrainians who work for victory and launch initiatives to help their country. More details here.

The core of our achievements and the main value is the team. We believe in people, shared values ​​and that the brave always have happiness.

Meet Polina Gonta - Head of Visual Design at Headway. Having joined us five years ago, she has created a unique product style that evokes positive emotions in users and sets us apart from the competition.

But we do not want to stop at what we have achieved and are looking for new growth points. That is why, together with Polina, we are looking for an ambitious Visual Designer to join the team, whose mission is to visualize content for our flagship Headway application.

Why it is interesting:

• Your work will not gather dust on the shelf. We implement everything we create.
• You will test the solution and see the result in the form of numbers and user feedback.
• You will be part of the Headway design community. We already have 30 talented specialists working in different areas of design. Share your experience and generate ideas together with them!
• You will work in an open and proactive product team. The opinion of each participant is important to us. Have a cool idea to improve the product? Let's test!
• You will become part of a professional team in which it is safe and easy to grow.

What needs to be done:

• Visualize new content formats in the application, the main one of which is the covers of our samaras.
• Test different solutions to problems.
• Adapt illustrations to existing Headway style, maintain a single ecosystem.
• Optimize the process of creating illustrations.
• Follow new trends in the field of illustration and implement them in practice.
• Work in a product team.

We are looking for you if:

• You want to develop professionally in the field of vector illustration.
• You have a thorough approach to choosing a color palette.
• You confidently work with typography and layout.
• Ready to try new styles.
• You know hot keys in Adobe Illustrator and Figma.
• You have an up-to-date portfolio.
• Share team values ​​-

What we offer:

Professional and personal growth

• Access to the corporate knowledge base and professional community from the first day of cooperation.
• Personal development plan.
• Compensation for learning English, studying at external trainings, seminars and courses, as well as Business and Management School for employees.
• Lectures on psychology, culture, literature, history, info-hygiene, to comprehensively develop together.

Your health is important to us

• Medical insurance.
• Corporate doctor and massage in the office.
• 100% payment of sick leave.
• Sports: stretching, yoga, boxing, etc.

Corporate vacations

In addition to 20 working days of vacation, twice a year we all go on a week-long paid vacation together to rest and recharge.

Interested? Then send your resume!

Together we are a force!