Team Lead, Design – Creative Operations

• Provide functional and disciplinary leadership for the three-person design team
• Foster individual strengths and support the professional development of team members
• Translate the Creative Directors’ guidelines into concrete tasks and creative parameters
• Contribute your own ideas and align on feasibility, effort, and capacity
• Allocate tasks according to team members’ strengths and workloads
• Manage ongoing design projects while proactively prioritizing work and planning resources and deadlines
• Identify bottlenecks at an early stage and develop viable solutions
• Create packaging, advertising, social media, and newsletter graphics, as well as webshop and other digital assets
• Ensure consistent implementation of the creative direction across different formats
• Create and review production-ready artwork and print-ready files
• Support the implementation of packaging, print, and POS materials, as well as 3D graphics and renderings
• Use AI for image generation
• Evaluate new AI tools for practical applications
• Further develop AI-assisted workflows and automations
• Optimize templates, visual systems, and asset structures

• Several years of solid professional experience in brand, visual, or packaging design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a keen eye for design, brands, and execution across different formats
• Experience leading and developing a design team, ideally complemented by disciplinary management responsibility
• Ability to explain design decisions clearly and provide specific, actionable feedback
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, as well as Figma
• Extensive experience in packaging design
• Proven ability to create production-ready print files
• Confident working with Claude and other AI tools, as well as practical experience with AI image generation and improving design workflows
• Experience with AI video, advanced automations, or 3D and motion design—such as Blender or After Effects—is a plus
• Strong organizational skills and initiative
• Excellent German language skills, at least C1 level
• Availability to work full-time, 40 hours per week across 5 days, or at least 35 hours per week

• 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 to support your professional development
• Transparent salary reviews, personal goals, and professional development opportunities
• All necessary work equipment
• 50% employee discounts on Vitasauri® and edubily® products
• Tax-free childcare allowance of up to €300 per month for children of daycare or kindergarten age
• 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