The Role:
Shikho is looking for a powerhouse Executive/Sr. Executive, Visual Design to join our brand team. This role requires a hybrid creative who possesses both the strategic eye of a Visualizer and the technical prowess of a Motion Designer and Animator. You will bridge the gap between abstract academic concepts, brand stories, and high end visual execution taking complete ownership of the visual journey across our social media platforms, app, digital products, and websites to make learning hyper engaging for students.
Key Responsibilities:
Visual Ideation & Storyboarding
• Think creatively to develop original design concepts, graphics, layouts, and style frames from raw briefs or eLearning storyboards
• Analyze complex academic content and translate it into clear, engaging, and age appropriate visual representations
• Ensure strong visual continuity across all media by strictly adhering to and expanding Shikho brand and design guidelines
Multidimensional Motion & Asset Creation
• Animate everything from complex scientific concepts and custom characters to sleek UI motion and promotional campaign assets
• Create original 2D/3D graphics, character designs, environments, dynamic typography, and asset libraries from scratch
• Mix media seamlessly by compositing 2D/3D elements with real world footage, CGI, and tracking for brand films and app content
Omnichannel Design & UX Alignment
• Visualize and design user screens, digital assets, and marketing creatives optimized for social media, the Shikho app, and web interfaces
• Create production ready visual guidelines, toolkits, and design systems to maintain consistency across all student touchpoints
• Stay ahead of global EdTech and motion trends, proactively proposing creative and technical upgrades to elevate our content
Workflow Ownership & Collaboration
• Partner cross functionally with academic, copywriter, product, digital marketing, and the broader brand team to ensure visual assets are both educationally accurate and aesthetically compelling
• Take full accountability for the design to animation pipeline from initial brief and conceptual visualization to final render and export with minimal supervision
• Optimize production efficiency by exploring new software, plugins, scripts, and visual shortcuts in a fast paced environment
Qualifications & Skills:
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a top digital marketing agency, high growth tech company, or EdTech brand
• Dual Expertise: A portfolio that clearly demonstrates both high level static visualization like layout, typography, branding, and illustration alongside advanced motion design and animation skills
• The Toolkit: Expert level proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite including After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Character Animator and 3D software like Cinema 4D or Blender
• EdTech Context: Prior experience in EdTech or visual learning content design is highly preferred
• Execution & Drive: Proven ability to take full ownership of projects under tight campaign deadlines while upholding premium visual standards
• Communication: Strong ability to pitch concepts, justify visual choices, and collaborate across technical and non technical teams
• Application Requirement: You are required to attach a portfolio link showcasing both visual design and layout as well as motion graphics and animation with your application
About Shikho:
Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology start-up with a mission to democratise access to high-quality education. It has so far raised $8.0 million USD of international funding from global venture capitalists in Singapore and America, the highest for a Bangladeshi seed-stage startup and the highest in education technology for the country. Investors include education technology investment specialists Learn Capital from Silicon Valley, regional experts Wavemaker Partners from Singapore along with the Family Office of Singtel Chairman and local partner SAJIDA Foundation. Shikho aims to build a holistic learning ecosystem for a digitally enabled Bangladeshi student population, across primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
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