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As Design Director at Helder, you will work closely with strategy and take responsibility for branding projects from kick-off to roll-out. Your responsibilities include leading the design team, translating brand profiles into brand design concepts, acting as the primary contact for client design topics, managing project timelines and budgets, ensuring efficient and commercially viable delivery, overseeing the team's creative output and quality management, advising clients, developing client relationships, identifying strategic brand direction and future development, and supporting roll-out and brand implementation. The role requires 7 to 10 years of agency experience, experience leading design teams and advising C-level clients, expertise in brand development and brand management projects, strong communication and presentation skills, proficiency in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Figma, an eye for detail and design systems, a structured and independent working style, broad customer, market and brand understanding, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial thinking, intrinsic motivation and social skills. Very good German and good English are advantageous. Helder offers work across design, strategy and project management, projects for community, lifestyle and tech brands, project support from start to finish, regular one-to-one feedback meetings, an annual training budget, conference and design festival attendance, a permanent employment contract, fair pay, tax-free recreation benefits, personal purpose projects, a Deutschland-Ticket, in-studio bar evenings and the opportunity to help shape a growing design studio.
