As an integrated brand marketing agency, we help brands define and amplify their purpose to forge meaningful relationships with people. We work with stakeholders to solve business challenges and identify opportunities, helping brands and their products innovate, ensuring relevance and resonance within the market. We create these relationships through our marketing interventions, manifested through our knowledge of digital platforms and brand strategy to help organisations achieve their growth objectives. We are strategists, consultants, designers, marketers, creatives and all the labels you may call us for the things we can do. We challenge the status quo and we make growth happen. Together, with you.

OUR MISSION : Creating a world of ‘Human’ Brands A ‘Human’ brand as defined by an alignment of Core, Body Realm HOW IT ALL STARTED This needs a #throwback to the founding of our parent product development company, Techlyon. As people started approaching them for product and innovation consultations, we soon realised that brands didn’t just need help with technical development, but with client acquisition too. With a shared mission to set the human standard for marketing, our founders joined forces to start AKÏN - a company that enable businesses to grow through Technological, Brand and Inbound Interventions.

But how do we help organisations achieve real growth? We brought our skills of brand and technological innovations together with the philosophy of marketing. We build infrastructure and tools to facilitate interfacing brands and people, and rightfully so with the speed of today’s chatter in the digital world. We cut through the noise to build experiences that live between organisations and people - that’s the growth we’re looking for. Values we live and work by • LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN: We believe it’s always possible • BE LIKE A THREE-LEGGED TABLE: We take risks and we do new ideas • IT STARTS WITH THE HEART: If it matters to you, it matters to us. • ENABLING OTHERS: It’s all about the partnership and collaboration.

As our Creative - Designer, you should be confident in making creative decisions independently on the projects and accounts under your care. You will get to work closely with our copywriters to create cohesive creatives to communicate the strategy put forth by our strategists. Do you enjoy broadening your knowledge in the workings of marketing to allow your design to make an impact? If you have a keen sense of understanding how campaigns work and the function of design within, we'd love for you to join us and create content to translate into meaningful growth for our stakeholders. At AKÏN, you will be assigned to mentor fellow team members and managing internal goals to help drive the business forward. What you need to keep an eye on: Your key focus as a junior designer would be to learn how to execute projects efficiently and of a high standard. You must be proactive in understanding the various types of design work, software and their application to our work. You will be an effective team member and work cohesively with others. It is important from the start to develop softer skill-sets to enable your personal growth and professionalism. When you progress to a senior designer, you will begin to pursue broader knowledge in marketing and business outside of your daily work, to help you develop content and creative ideas to complement the project or account strategy. Research and strategy: - Take ownership of design briefs and answer them to a high standard - Works with team to create effective creative pitches to clients - Stays on top of designs trends in digital, and proactively shares new concepts and principles with internal team for inspiration and discussions Leadership: - Leads design / creative development process and creation - Guide internal team amidst ambiguity to meet clients goals by being able to multitask - Proactive in organising and leading brainstorming sessions with colleagues and clients if necessary to share creative ideas - Able to effectively manage internal resources and have a strong understanding of each’s personal strengths and weaknesses -Collaborate and communicate with copywriters and external vendors to produce relevant content that meets the needs of both key stakeholders and our audience Project responsibilities: - Demonstrate a clear understanding of campaign objectives and devise strategies to achieve them - Able to deduce the limitations or benefits of the various digital channels, including websites, blogs, email and social media etc., and design accordingly - Reviews phases of projects or accounts creatives, and ensures output is aligned with strategy, is brand-appropriate, and client’s goals - Forthcoming in communicating of creative and design ideas to other team members - Proactive in clarifying doubts if creative / design briefing is unclear Project skills: - Capable in the full Adobe suite, pushes self to own workflows to improve own efficiencies and communicating design ideas and concepts effectively - Ability to be fluid in different design styles and keen in exploring new software and potential for new opportunities e.g. sketch, balsamiq, hotjar etc. - Understands basic marketing principles and how creative outputs drives effectiveness - Familiarity with creative processes and techniques – including digital media - Keen attention to detail and timelines - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; works well with different personalities and backgrounds Sounds Exciting? Ready for your next challenge? Click “Want to Visit” to talk to our team today!