Graphic Designer (in Chemnitz)
About Staffbase
In a polarized world, we inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication so they can thrive in the Narrative Age. Our award-winning communications channels – intranet, employee app and email – deliver experiences that drive engagement and inspire hearts and minds.
We’re headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in many locations throughout the world, including New York, London, Berlin and Dresden. Our international team counts more than 750 employees from 45+ nationalities and we have a growing base of 2200+ customers that want to transform their employee experience. We are rapidly scaling, post-Series E ($115 million funding), have strong-growing revenue, and our customers love us.
Our Intermediate Graphic Designer role entails the complete design of a diverse range of materials that support our branding initiatives, marketing campaigns, online communication, and internal communication. As an intermediate position, you should possess a considerable amount of experience in different media and skills. You will be an important part of our team, enhancing the speed and efficiency of our workflow as you assist stakeholders and other team members.
Please note: This is a 1 year fixed term contract.
What you’ll be doing
- Working within a team that thrives on candor, continuous learning, and creative collaboration within the team and with the rest of the company
- Understanding and owning design requests, tasks and projects from beginning to end
- Collaborating with open-minded people across multiple teams to create great assets and improve the way we work
- Conceptualizing and creating graphic, web and motion design assets for social media, advertising, whitepapers, brochures, ebooks, webinars, web pages and videos following the style of our brands and their guidelines
- Starting to see our job beyond execution and learning how to advise stakeholders and teammates in scope, ideation and resources to create engaging and amazing lead-gated resources to support our marketing and audience-building campaigns
- Nurturing our team around best practices for cross-team collaboration between our team and the stakeholders to bring their goals to life
- Analyzing the success of creatives and creating new iterations based on feedback and data to raise the bar and quality of our work
- Being able to communicate (clearly and effectively) scope and ideas with the team to improve the quality of the work at hand and build strong relationships with teammates and stakeholders
- Start defining what you are looking for as a creative person and the best setup to strive for it
- Contributing towards the direction of our brand's visual identity, communication and strategy
What you need to be successful
- 3+ years of professional experience in graphic, motion or communications design
- Advanced experience with the Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects
- Strong graphic and motion design, video-editing and visual messaging skills
- Knowledge and understanding of design principles, typography and layouting
- Experience in web design is a plus
- Fluency in German and English - written and spoken
- Excellent self organizational and project management skills
- Strong problem solving and creative thinking skills
What you'll get
- Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560.
- Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year).
- Wellbeing - in addition to our yearly vacation of 30 days, we’re running a 4-day-work week every year in August with full payment.
- Support - we’re offering a company pension scheme.
- Sports & Health - join our sport courses in the offices or lease a bike with Staffbase. The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks.
- Team Building - Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp.
- Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project. We will donate a small amount for that project in addition.
- Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid.
Location
Chemnitz is a a modern industrial city and the hometown of Staffbase. Our headquarter was founded here in 2014. The city is a centre of technology focusing particularly on automobile and car supplier industries, information technology and engineering. Chemnitz will be European Capital of Culture in 2025.