Freelance Visual Designer

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

The role:

We’re looking for a freelance Visual Designer to provide temporary cover for our design role.

You’ll work from our established design systems and use AI tools to speed up content production, so the team gets what it needs quickly without losing quality.

We’re aiming for around two full days a week for roughly six months, with flexibility on which days work best for you.

If you enjoy flexibility and are able to turn around design work at pace as priorities shift, this one's for you!

Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:

Print and events

• Design brochures, posters, flyers, signage and other marketing collateral
• Design swag, booth banners and exhibition stands
• Design ebooks and physical books, including our “A practical guide to…” series
• Prepare print-ready files and work with print suppliers

Digital

• Design adverts in a range of formats, such as social banners
• Design emails, web pages and social media content
• Create illustrations and technical documentation diagrams
• Edit video and create motion graphics

Brand

• Check slide decks and other materials are on brand

Working with others

• Take design requests from teams across the business and prioritise them
• Work with internal teams and external suppliers, including our SEO and AI search specialist

Put that specialist’s SEO and AI search recommendations into action

Help where needed

• Support the website rebuild

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Good knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Good knowledge of Figma
• Experience with both print and digital design
• Comfortable working with internal teams and external suppliers
• Experience working with AI tools such as Claude Code and Claude artifacts, including designing with AI through
• design systems

Skills that would be a big help (nice to have):

• Experience designing for technical or developer audiences, ideally in B2B SaaS
• Experience with CMS platforms and website builders such as WordPress, HubSpot and Elementor
• Experience with HubSpot CRM and Google Analytics
• Knowledge of SEO and AI search optimisation (also known as GEO or AEO)
• Experience with modern static-site workflows (e.g. Astro, GitHub, Vercel) and AI-assisted development tools such as Claude

Here’s why you should join us:

• Total flexibility in your hours
• Cool projects with plenty of variety to keep it interesting
• An amazing team of talented (and really nice) people
• AI-forward ways of working, where AI is your assistant, and you stay in charge
• Work you’ll be proud to show with a global B2B SaaS brand trusted by companies like Bell, T Mobile, RBS and Capital One.

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

• It’s ok to screw up!

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one!

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count!

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

• Assume best intent!

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.

• Make things better!

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io