Creative Designer, Cotonou (Benin Republic)

What you would be expected to do
Creative Design

• Develop and execute visual concepts for:
  • Marketing campaigns (digital and print)
  • Social media content
  • Corporate communications materials (presentations, e-shots, posters, brochures)
• Ensure all designs align with established brand guidelines and visual identity systems
• Contribute to ideation and creative direction for campaigns and brand initiatives

Video Editing

• Edit video content for:
  • Product demonstrations and explainer videos
  • Marketing and campaign content
  • Internal training and communication materials
• Assemble raw footage, graphics, audio, and effects into polished final outputs
• Adapt video content for multiple platforms (web, social media, presentations)

Animation & Motion Graphics

• Design and develop motion graphics and animations including:
  • Explainer videos
  • Animated infographics
  • Social media motion content
• Create animated assets such as:
  • Titles, transitions, and lower thirds

Content Production Support

• Participate in video production processes including:
  • Pre-production (concept development, storyboarding, shot planning)
  • Production support during shoots (where required)
  • Post-production editing and finishing
• Manage and organise digital assets (video, graphics, audio)

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with:
  • Marketing, Communications, and Product teams
  • Aftersales and training teams (for instructional content)
• Interpret creative briefs and translate them into effective visual solutions
• Incorporate feedback and deliver revisions in a timely manner

Brand Governance & Quality Assurance

• Maintain consistency and integrity of the brand across all outputs
• Ensure all creative materials meet organisational standards and compliance requirements
• Conduct quality checks prior to final delivery

Key Deliverables

• Campaign creative assets (static and motion)
• Product and explainer videos
• Social media content (graphics and motion)
• Internal training and communication videos.
• Branded templates and reusable motion assets.

You might be a strong candidate if you have:
Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Film Production, or a related field

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role (in-house or agency)
• Demonstrated portfolio showcasing graphic design, video editing, and animation work.

Technical competencies

• Proficiency in:
  • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
  • Adobe Premiere Pro / Final Cut Pro
  • Adobe After Effects (essential)
• Good Knowledge of:
  • Layout, typography, and visual hierarchy
  • Video editing workflows and storytelling techniques
  • Motion graphics and animation.

Other competencies

• Creative and conceptual thinking
• Must be Bilingual (English & French)
• Attention to detail and quality
• Effective time management and ability to handle multiple projects.
• Ability to receive and apply constructive feedback
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.

Additional Requirements (Optional)

• Basic knowledge of photography and videography
• Experience with 3D tools (e.g., Blender, Cinema 4D)
• Good Knowledge of digital marketing and content performance metrics

What Sun King offers

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

About
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones. Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.