Graphic Designer - Branded Merchandise & Apparel

Kitu Kali is a Nairobi-based, African-inspired apparel and footwear brand. We design our own ranges and run our decoration in-house — embroidery, sublimation, DTF and screen print — and sell across a growing network of retail stores, e-commerce, stockists, and a fast-expanding corporate and B2B channel. We make products we're proud of, for people who care how they look, and we're now building the corporate side into a serious part of the business. This role sits right at that growth edge — designing the work that wins corporate clients and helps shape how the brand shows up on everything from uniforms to merchandise.

Kitu Kali is looking for a graphic designer to own the visual side of our corporate and B2B business — the person who turns a client's brand and a rough brief into a proposal that wins the order.

Must have

• A strong portfolio, especially mockups, product visualisation or branded merchandise/apparel design
• Fluency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (InDesign a plus for decks)
• An understanding of how design translates to production — decoration methods, print areas, colour separations, vector artwork — or the ability to learn it fast
• Experience in apparel, merchandise, branding, signage or print
• Presentation / pitch-deck design skills
• Mockup or 3D product-visualisation tools
• The ability to prepare clean, print- and decoration-ready files in the correct formats
• Speed and reliability under sales deadlines
• A genuine eye for brand: able to take someone else's identity and apply it tastefully across products
• Based in Nairobi

Nice to have

• Commercial instinct — you design to win the deal, not just to fill a page
• Comfort taking a loose brief and running with it, then refining on feedback
• Someone who communicates well with both sales and production
• Embroidery digitising experience (e.g. Wilcom) or familiarity with stitch files

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