Conceptual Designer

• Join KAYAK's in-house creative team as a Conceptual Designer/Art Director, developing strong ideas and crafting visually compelling work across brand, performance, social, video, digital, OOH, and emerging platforms. • Turn product truths, cultural insight, and business challenges into work people actually notice — work that entertains, builds the brand, and drives performance. • Take ownership of projects combining concept and design with a hands-on, collaborative attitude at the world's leading travel search engine.

• Be 5–7+ years into your creative career with strong thinking, craft, and a portfolio that shows what you can do. • Demonstrate strong conceptual ability with excellent craft in art direction, design, and visual storytelling. • Balance creative ambition with commercial objectives comfortably. • Use data, testing, and audience insight to improve creative performance. • Show passion for branding, storytelling, travel, and culture. • Be curious, collaborative, and highly motivated.

• Have experience working within an advertising agency or strong creative environment. • Hold a portfolio demonstrating thorough conceptual thinking and execution across multiple formats. • Bring demonstrable experience working across digital, social, film, OOH, and emerging platforms. • Have a natural instinct for typography, composition, motion, and storytelling. • Bring experience in the production process or motion design. • Show excitement about emerging creative tools and technologies including AI.

• Develop creative concepts and visual executions across brand, performance, social, video, digital, OOH, and emerging platforms. • 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.

• Take 5 weeks paid vacation plus a day off for your birthday. • Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days per year. • Enjoy a company-wide week off where the whole team fully recharges. • Receive company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth and a Headspace subscription. • Take paid parental leave and paid volunteer time. • Access a development budget, leadership development, and thousands of on-demand e-learnings. • Receive private health and dental insurance, income protection, life assurance, and pension contributions. • Enjoy no-meeting Fridays, free lunch 2 days per week, and Thursday happy hours.

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world's leading travel search engine processing billions of queries across its platforms. The company helps people find flights, stays, rental cars, and vacation packages, and is also transforming business travel with KAYAK for Business. KAYAK operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights, and HotelsCombined.