Senior Creative Designer; div​/f​/m

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner‑led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

This role is part of our Growth Marketing team. We deliver end to end data driven campaigns which foster both creativity and performance. Our specialty is creative, digital communications that drive performance, boost brand awareness, and shift market share for our clients. Our team in Germany is the only agency that combines technology, creativity and data to really make our clients grow.

• Define and own visual direction and creative concepts for projects
• Lead static design and art direction across campaigns and formats
• Use light motion to enhance visual ideas across social and digital assets
• Create and own style frames, visual systems, and design guidelines
• Guide and support junior and midweight designers through feedback
• Collaborate with motion designers, creative, and other disciplines to align ideas
• Stay aware of tools, trends, and AI workflows that support visual design

• Strong visual judgement and confidence contributing to concepts and creative direction. Art direction experience showing how you’ve helped crafted the visual story of your work.
• A social first mind who is aware of designing for social and current social trends with a portfolio to match this experience.
• Strong experience as a visual or graphic designer with an art direction focus.
• Excellent visual judgement and confidence shaping concepts and visual direction.
• Strong graphic design skills with attention to layout, typography, and composition.
• Experience creating and owning style frames and visual systems.
• Working knowledge of After Effects for light motion and animation.
• Experience with Adobe tools and Figma.
• Awareness of AI tools and curiosity about applying them to visual workflows.
• A strong portfolio showing visual concepts, static design, and light motion.

• Flexible hybrid working policy (1-2 days at the office, depending on location).
• Company pension scheme.
• Lease bike options / Job Rad and 25% subsidy for the Deutschlandticket.
• Occasional breakfast/lunch at the office, Smoothie Tuesdays.
• €30 per month - You can use the flexible package for digital food stamps and/or fitness providers/sport clubs/massage studios, internet costs, and/ or public transport.
• Future Bens - Exclusive access to sustainable, healthy products at attractive deals.
• Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the Open Up platform.
• Social events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
• Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh
* t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to…