Job Vacancies at BURN

About the role

• This is a design role for a creative with a strong portfolio, a genuine interest in brand storytelling, and the instincts to work beyond pure execution. You will join an in-house creative team embedded within a corporate environment, contributing directly to how our brand shows up across every channel, audience, and touchpoint.
• We are looking for someone at a meaningful juncture in their career: past the learning curve of junior production, not yet in a formal art direction position, but already demonstrating the visual intelligence and conceptual thinking that will take them there. You can translate a brief into a compelling creative response, shape visual narratives with purpose, and make strong independent decisions—while still operating effectively within a structured organisation and benefiting from senior creative guidance.
• In this role, you will balance creative ambition with commercial reality. You understand that great design in a corporate context means marrying visual craft with business objectives, brand consistency, and stakeholder needs. You are collaborative, clear-headed under pressure, and serious about doing the work well.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Visual Design & Production
  • Develop high-quality visual design across a broad range of deliverables, including integrated campaigns, digital assets, presentations, print collateral, internal communications, and brand materials
  • Manage projects from creative brief through to final delivery with accuracy, quality control, and attention to detail at every stage
  • Maintain and apply brand guidelines consistently across all outputs, ensuring visual coherence across channels and formats
• Conceptual Thinking & Creative Development
  • Translate creative briefs into well-considered visual concepts, bringing strategic and aesthetic thinking together from the outset
  • Contribute actively to creative ideation sessions and campaign development, offering ideas and visual direction—not just execution
  • Apply an art director's sensibility to layout, typography, hierarchy, composition, and brand storytelling across all work
  • Help evolve and elevate the brand system over time, identifying opportunities to strengthen and advance creative standards
• Collaboration & Creative Relationships
  • Work in close creative partnership with copywriters, strategists, and marketers to develop work that is both visually compelling and strategically sound
  • Engage constructively with creative briefs from across the business, asking the right questions to ensure design decisions serve the intended message and audience
  • Present design work clearly and with confidence—articulating the thinking behind visual decisions and responding to feedback as part of a healthy creative dialogue
  • Collaborate with external creative partners, photographers, and production studios in a design or art direction support capacity where relevant
  • Build trusted working relationships within the creative team, contributing positively to a culture of craft, curiosity, and shared creative ambition

Skills and Experience

• Approximately five years of professional design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong conceptual and craft-led thinking across a variety of formats and contexts
• An emerging art direction sensibility: a considered approach to visual storytelling, typographic hierarchy, layout, and campaign-level thinking
• A genuine understanding of brand: how visual systems hold together, why consistency matters, and how to evolve a brand without breaking it
• Commercial awareness and a clear sense of how design functions within business and marketing contexts
• A collaborative, solutions-oriented working style that is proactive without being directive
• Comfort working in a structured, process-driven environment while maintaining creative curiosity and ambition
• Adobe Creative Suite — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign (advanced working knowledge required)
• Figma — for digital design, component-based thinking, and collaborative review workflows
• Presentation design — Microsoft PowerPoint and/or Apple Keynote, to a high standard of layout and communication design
• Typography, grid systems, brand identity, and campaign design
• Print production knowledge — understanding of specifications, pre-press, and supplier management
• Experience working in an in-house creative team within a corporate, financial services, consulting, professional services, or enterprise brand environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including leadership-level presentation experience
• Exposure to campaign development from brief to execution, with involvement in creative direction or concept development alongside a senior creative
• Experience attending or supporting photoshoots, creative productions, or agency briefings
• A track record of contributing to brand evolution projects—brand refreshes, guidelines development, or creative system-building.

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About the Role:

• We are looking for a highly analytical, intellectually curious intern to join the Strategy team. You will work on projects spanning market entry analysis, investment evaluation, competitor intelligence, and strategic planning. A core expectation of this role is the ability to build rigorous, insight-driven financial models that directly inform BURN's capital allocation and go-to-market decisions.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Financial Modelling & Quantitative Analysis

• Build robust financial models to support investment and market entry decisions across manufacturing and distribution-led entry modes
• Model full-scale manufacturing entry scenarios to evaluate build-versus-distribute trade-offs
• Build distribution-led entry models assessing unit and partner economics, route-to-market cost structures, and break-even thresholds ahead of capital commitment
• Maintain and improve existing financial frameworks and trackers used by the strategy team

Market & Competitive Intelligence

• Research and size addressable markets across Africa synthesising primary and secondary data sources
• Conduct competitive landscape analyses covering product, pricing and distribution positioning

Strategic Planning & Decision Support

• Support preparation of investment memoranda, board materials, and strategic planning documents
• Contribute to market entry sequencing frameworks - structuring the analytical basis for when to enter distribution-first versus committing to manufacturing from the outset
• Contribute to site-selection and evaluations for manufacturing entry, including lease economics, utility costs, and regulatory incentive modelling
• Synthesise findings into concise, visually compelling presentations for senior leadership

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Interdepartmental coordination to gather data inputs and validate model assumptions
• Participate in strategy reviews and project postmortems, contributing analytical perspective to team discussions

Requirements 

• Recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business or a related quantitative field
• Demonstrable proficiency in financial modelling in Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort working with incomplete or ambiguous data
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to translate complex analysis into clear recommendations
• High attention to detail and intellectual rigour