Hybrid Brand Designer

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• Job title: Brand Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Helsinki, Finland

About the role

• Brand Designer managing design projects for a diverse range of clients, including brands and nonprofits. Responsibilities include leading creative processes, ensuring brand alignment, and maintaining client relations.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with our 200+ brands, ranging from early-stage companies to more established brands, universities, and nonprofits.
• Concepting brand ideas, crafting dashing visual identities, designing websites and other (digital) brand applications, and planning and creating visuals for campaigns.
• Take ownership of brand design projects, leading both the internal team and the client.
• Drive the creative process, leading brand work for a client or two from the get-go.
• Guarantee that creative work is aligned with the brand, keeping the client happy, and managing projects in a smooth manner.
• Serve as the main point of contact for clients.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design experience – You have an extensive portfolio showcasing brand identity and digital design projects, from strategy to execution.
• Deep understanding of branding – You know that a great visual identity is just one aspect of branding, and understand that your expertise is needed from the first positioning exercise to continuous marketing and communications efforts.
• Simply put: you’re a very good designer – You know this, but you don’t let it go over your head. You value straight talk and direct feedback and want to know when your work is not first-rate.
• You understand the technology and tools your designs are built on – You work well with developers and understand how much time making pixel-perfect work requires. We're mainly working in Figma and Adobe CC.
• Client communications and project management experience – You're confident running interviews, meetings and leading projects by yourself or with a team. You keep a cool head under pressure, and can give and take candid feedback well.
• Quick to understand new industries – We build brands for a great variety of products, services, and companies – from mobile games and quantum computers to electronic performance cars and new textile materials.
• Working proficiency in English – It will be your first working language as we work with several international brands and communicate in English within our team.

Benefits

• Occupational health care – Extensive occupational health care.
• Competitive salary and lots of opportunities for professional development.
• Flexible work – Feel free to work from home or the office.
• Birthday as a holiday – Paid one, of course.
• Phone subscription
• Professional growth – Opportunity to join a growing team of professionals that won’t accept anything less than being world-class.