Senior Brand Designer

The Branding Journal; Bethesda (MD); Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a talented designer to bring their brand visuals to life. You will collaborate with local marketing teams to create engaging content and memorable events. This role emphasizes ownership and teamwork, allowing you to push creative boundaries and enhance brand awareness across multiple markets.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Public transportation reimbursement

Great health insurance

Employee well-being initiatives

Monthly team events

Qualifications

• More than four years in a multidisciplinary design field.
• Experience creating narratives across digital and physical brand touchpoints.

Responsibilities

• Manage event design projects end-to-end.
• Cross-coordinate with local marketing stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuously improving our design system.

Skills

Visual design expertise

Creative storytelling

Stakeholder management

Job description

Our mission ? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!

Our values:

Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do

Ownership | Own your part, get things done

Teamwork | Make (team)work easy

Mastery | Continuously raise the bar

Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people

Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

As part of the Design Studio, you will be responsible for bringing Qonto's brand visuals to life and driving high engagement in a multicultural environment.

As a guardian of the brand, you will ensure that Qonto's identity not only aligns with global standards but also resonates deeply with local market nuances.

Collaborating with local marketing teams, you'll craft memorable one-off events, create engaging content to animate communities, and co-develop editorial visuals for established channels like newsletters as well as emerging platforms like TikTok. By elevating one of the brand's most visible assets, you'll reach hundreds of thousands of people. Your efforts will elevate our marketing assets to the next level, scaling them across our eight markets: France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, and Belgium.

You'll work closely with Eduardo, our Brand Design Team Lead, to create impactful designs that enhance brand awareness and support top-of-funnel marketing efforts that complement our sales team's lead generation strategies.

• Manage event design projects end-to-end, from concept to delivery, creating comprehensive brand narratives including teasers, booth designs, activation, merchandising, flyers, and post-event communications;

• Cross-coordinate with local marketing stakeholders across our eight markets, supporting event and content managers to understand their specific needs and deliver tailored solutions;

• Nourish your creative thinking by conducting market research and benchmarking, creating solution catalogs to support design trade-offs and ensure alignment with business objectives;

• Contribute to continuously improving our design system, library and standards, helping to step up in quality and scale solution across all markets and assets.

What you can expect

• Join a dynamic design team of seven talented professionals deeply involved in creating visual assets for local marketing initiatives, particularly for events that generate brand awareness and support lead generation.

• Embrace ownership and teamwork as each team member independently manages their projects and stakeholder relationships, with the freedom to bring their creative approach to design projects, focusing on storytelling and concept creation.

• Work hand in hand with a variety of profiles and expertise internally, including System Designers, Copywriters, Product Marketing Managers as well as externally with content creator agencies, influencers, video production companies, interior architect firms for booth design and more.

• Push the craft beyond traditional boundaries with AI and achieve new heights of creativity.

His path? Eduardo is a multidisciplinary branding expert and team leader. He has worked in the branding, marketing, start-ups, and advertising industries within creative, culture, content & experience from hyper-local to global projects. Now, he is leading the Marketing Brand Design Team at Qonto with the help of his talented brand designers.

What can he bring to the team?Upon joining Qonto, Eduardo committed himself to guiding and inspiring his team to create perfectly crafted visuals, meaningful concepts, and coherent solutions to solve complex problems. Besides Social Media, his scope also comprises leading the team to develop assets for our blog, CRM, local marketing initiatives, and partnerships (FR, IT, DE, ES). He will be the perfect manager to help you grow in your understanding of Social Media, Brand Design, Design Systems & Management.

About You

• Visual design expertise & language skills: With more than four years in a multidisciplinary design field, you have strong technical skills, can craft high-quality assets that align with brand guidelines, and are fluent in English to engage with all international team members.

• Creative storytelling: You have a strong ability to convert complex ideas into compelling visual concepts, with experience creating narratives across digital and physical brand touchpoints

• Event design experience: You've worked on designing materials for events, understanding how to create cohesive visual experiences from pre-event teasers to on-site materials and post-event communications

• Stakeholder management: You excel at working with diverse stakeholders and can effectively manage relationships with teams across multiple markets

• Nice to have: Proficiency in German and skills in Artificial Intelligence.

At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.

A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.

- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;

- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;

- Competitive salary package;

- Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);

- A great health insurance (depending on the country);

- Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;

- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;

- Monthly team events.

- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers

- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours

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