Design Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Lead and foster the professional and disciplinary growth of the three-member design team

• Establish clear priorities, streamline processes, and uphold a high standard of design quality

• Serve as the liaison with the Creative Directors

• Transform the overarching Creative Direction into consistent implementation across relevant touchpoints

• Maintain oversight of ongoing projects, team capacity, and deadlines

• Proactively plan resources to ensure timely delivery

• Receive briefings from Creative Direction, Marketing, and other departments

• Distribute tasks based on team members’ strengths and workloads

• Engage hands-on in designing packaging, advertisements, social media content, newsletters, webshops, and other digital assets when necessary

• Manage or coordinate 3D graphics and renderings, as well as print and point-of-sale materials

• Ensure production-ready print files are clean and accurate

• Integrate AI and automation into design workflows

• Continuously enhance templates, visual systems, asset structures, and workflows to boost quality, speed, and scalability

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience in brand, visual, or packaging design, complemented by a strong portfolio

• Proven experience in leading and developing team members

• Extensive background in packaging design

• Proficiency in creating production-ready print files

• Excellent command of Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, as well as Figma

• Strong interest in AI with practical experience using Claude and other pertinent AI tools

• Familiarity with automated workflows is advantageous

• Hands-on attitude, initiative, and the capability to manage projects and priorities in an organized manner

• Strong creative thinking and the ability to collaborate closely with a Creative Director to consistently implement a unified Creative Direction

• Very good proficiency in German, at least at the C1 level

• Availability to work full-time, 40 hours per week over 5 days, or at least 35 hours per week

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first: Work completely from home.

• Flexible working hours outside core times (9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.)

• Support for professional growth with an annual budget in the four-figure range

• Transparency regarding salary adjustments, personal objectives, and professional development

• Provision of any necessary work equipment

• Employee discounts: 50% off products from the Vitasauri® and edubily® brands

• Tax-free childcare allowance of up to €300 per month for children in daycare or kindergarten, capped at actual childcare expenses

• Internet allowance of up to €50 per month, capped at actual costs

• An extra day off on your birthday

• An additional €50 net per month as a tax- and social-security-free voucher of your choice or for Urban Sports Club