Principal Brand Designer – Spain, Portugal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Define the brand ecosystem, visual identity, creative direction, standards, and design principles for OLX Group.

• Establish governance for brand identity, quality assurance, multi-brand design systems, and asset libraries.

• Guide brand design across various digital, physical, and experiential touchpoints, excluding advertising.

• Advance OLX Group's visual identity and brand assets in the long term.

• Create AI-ready design systems, prompt libraries, reusable templates, automation workflows, and governance frameworks.

• Identify opportunities for AI to enhance creative workflows, collaboration, and the quality of design.

• Set the creative standards for product launches, executive communications, presentations, employer branding, events, web experiences, and marketing initiatives.

• Provide creative direction, critique, and hands-on leadership in design.

• Convert customer insights, research findings, and business priorities into visual systems and brand experiences.

• Develop documentation, enablement programs, design resources, and governance models for global and regional teams.

• Influence senior stakeholders across Product, Marketing, and Executive Leadership.

• Coach and mentor designers through critique, guidance, and collaboration.

• Report directly to the Director of Product Design and collaborate with Marketing, Brand Strategy, Product Design, Communications, Employer Brand, and regional teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in brand design or visual design.

• Proven experience in building or evolving brands at scale across multiple products or markets.

• Proficiency in Figma and/or Adobe Creative Suite.

• Background in motion design, storytelling, and digital brand experiences.

• Experience in creating or contributing to enterprise design systems.

• Strong familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and workflows.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

• A portfolio showcasing outstanding work in visual identity, typography, layout, storytelling, motion, and digital experiences.

• Capability to translate positioning, customer insights, and business objectives into creative systems.

• Ability to influence without authority and work collaboratively with executives, marketers, and designers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: OLX is committed to welcoming applicants from all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences.

• Opportunity to shape multiple global brands and define the integration of AI and design systems at scale.

• A strategic, hands-on individual contributor role with a significant global organizational influence.

• A transparent and collaborative hiring process.

• Opportunities for mentoring and collaboration.