Team Lead, Design – Creative Operations

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

📋 Description

• Provide functional and disciplinary leadership for a three-member design team.

• Encourage individual strengths and facilitate the professional growth of team members.

• Convert the Creative Directors’ directives into specific tasks and creative guidelines.

• Contribute your own ideas while aligning on feasibility, effort, and capacity.

• Delegate tasks based on team members’ strengths and current workloads.

• Oversee ongoing design projects while proactively managing priorities, resources, and deadlines.

• Detect bottlenecks early and devise effective solutions.

• Design packaging, advertising, social media, and newsletter graphics, in addition to webshop and other digital assets.

• Ensure consistent application of the creative vision across various formats.

• Produce and review production-ready artwork and print files.

• Assist in the execution of packaging, print, and POS materials, along with 3D graphics and renderings.

• Utilize AI for image generation.

• Assess new AI tools for practical uses.

• Enhance AI-assisted workflows and automation processes.

• Refine templates, visual systems, and asset structures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of robust professional experience in brand, visual, or packaging design.

• Strong portfolio showcasing a sharp eye for design, brands, and execution across various formats.

• Experience in leading and nurturing a design team, ideally with disciplinary management responsibilities.

• Ability to articulate design decisions clearly and provide specific, actionable feedback.

• Excellent proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, along with Figma.

• Extensive experience in packaging design.

• Proven capability to create production-ready print files.

• Comfortable working with Claude and other AI tools, along with hands-on experience in AI image generation and enhancing design workflows.

• Experience in AI video, advanced automation, or 3D and motion design—such as Blender or After Effects—is a plus.

• Strong organizational skills and a proactive approach.

• Excellent German language proficiency, at least at C1 level.

• Availability to work full-time, 40 hours per week over 5 days, or a minimum of 35 hours per week.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first: Work entirely from home.

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

• A four-figure annual budget dedicated to your professional development.

• Transparent salary reviews, personal goal setting, and professional development opportunities.

• Provision of all necessary work equipment.

• 50% employee discounts on Vitasauri® and edubily® products.

• Tax-free childcare allowance of up to €300 per month for children in daycare or kindergarten.

• Internet allowance of up to €50 per month.

• An additional day off on your birthday.

• An extra €50 net per month as a voucher of your choice or for Urban Sports Club.