Design Specialist

Graphic Design Specialist
Location:
Pune (India)

Reports to:
Corporate Comms Manager (With mentorship from Senior Designer based in Pune office)

About Kerv
Kerv is a next-generation technology partner, helping organisations achieve sustainable transformation. We bring together specialist practices in cloud, digital, compliance, customer experience and AI, aligned by a common purpose to do good with technology.

The Opportunity
As our Design Specialist, you will support the central Kerv marketing team by creating high-quality visual assets across practices. You'll work closely with our senior designer (aligned to another part of the Kerv business) and the comms/digital marketing teams to evolve our brand identity and deliver sales and marketing collateral, social media visuals, slideware, web assets, print materials and internal comms collateral. You'll help bring clarity to complex ideas, working under guidance while growing your own design skills and taking on increasing responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Design marketing and sales assets for Kerv central and all practices, slide decks, one-pagers, infographics, brochures, web visuals, social media graphics, email templates, print collateral, logos and flyers for internal projects
• Work to tight deadlines, reuse and adapt existing assets to speed production while maintaining brand consistency.
• Collaborate with IT, propositions, and subject matter leads to understand technical or complex messages, and translate them into clear, compelling visual diagrams, icons, or UX flows.
• Contribute to evolving Kerv's brand identity, update style guides, visual systems, and ensure visual coherence across channels.
• Support animation or motion graphics (where relevant), short videos, animated slides, GIFs, etc.
• Work with digital marketing colleagues to maintain a library or "bank" of visual assets for ongoing digital campaigns (ads, social, banners).
• Keep our asset library up to date
• Take direction and mentorship from the senior designer (Digital) and gradually own more design instances.
• Ensure accessibility and usability in design, good typography, contrast, responsive visuals.
• Version control and asset management, maintain organized design files and standards for reuse.
• Provide visual QA on presentations, marketing collaterals, and web deliverables to ensure consistency with brand guidelines..

What We're Looking For

• 1–3 years' experience in a design role
• Excellent skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Strong presentation design skills (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides)
• Ability to visualise data, technical processes and abstract ideas into accessible visuals
• Experience adapting templates and working fast under pressure
• Basic understanding of design for web / digital formats
• Comfortable taking feedback and iterating designs
• Strong attention to detail, typography, layout, brand guidelines
• Good communication skills, ability to ask questions, clarify briefing, work with stakeholders
• Strong written English skills to proof designs before sending out
• Ability to prioritise workload across multiple projects

Desirable/Bonus Skills

• Experience with animation or motion graphics (After Effects, Premiere Pro, HTML5 animations)
• UI / web design skills (Figma, Sketch, etc.)
• Experience with marketing asset libraries / digital asset management
• Basic knowledge of social media ad creatives (formats, sizing)
• Experience working with remote / distributed teams across time zones

What We Offer

• Mentorship from a senior designer, with the chance to develop your role in the company
• Exposure across multiple practices and a variety of domains (cloud, security, compliance, CX)
• A seat at the table for evolving Kerv's visual identity and how we communicate visually across multiple practices
• A collaborative environment where your voice matters in a growing, vibrant company
• Opportunities for training, growth, and cross-functional exposure
• Hybrid / flexible work culture consistent with Kerv's values

You will live the Kerv values…

• Think Customer First
• Team is everything
• Spread good vibes
• Build future
• Do the right thing

At Kerv, we're building something special and we're building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.