N-532 | Head Of Design (Maternity Cover) - Barcelona Or

Location: You can join us either in one of our offices in Hamburg, Berlin or Barcelona or 100% remotely in one of the 11 countries where we have a legal entity.

You will be part of the FREE NOW global marketing team reporting into the Director of Brand. As a team, you will be responsible for taking the FREE NOW brand to great new heights, delivering strategies, plans and executions that build brand awareness, increase consideration, and ultimately lead to advocacy.

In your capacity as Head of Design, you will lead a team of 10 in-house designers delivering on the creative needs of the business. We're looking for an energetic, charismatic and self-starting design superstar who can take the reins of the design team and support them to deliver creative impact. The team is responsible for the majority of creative assets you see across the FREE NOW ecosystem including all digital and social content and printed materials for passenger, driver and B2B marketing.

As Head of Design, you will also be directly involved in global marketing campaigns, alongside the brand team. We are in the process of a brand repositioning, working with world-class creative and design agencies to establish the foundations of FREE NOW's future, and you will be expected to jump straight in and support the team to lock this foundational work. You will also support the rollout across the business, with direct accountability for locking brand guidelines and embedding them within the organisation.

We are also taking this pivotal moment to shake things up, and as such we need someone who can critically assess the way we do things today and implement changes which will set us on the right path for the future. We want someone who can help transform our in-house design team to an in-house creative hub - a melting pot of design, creativity and innovation; the envy of other in-house departments at FREE NOW and of design teams at other businesses.

This is a really exciting role for an experienced designer who likes to get their hands dirty and wants to make a huge and visible difference in just a short space of time. You'll need to be passionate, full of energy, strategic, creative, collaborative and a natural born leader - it's not the role for everyone, but could it be the role for you?

1. Lead and manage a team of 10 in-house designers
2. Support, motivate and nurture talent
3. Creatively lead and inspire
4. Strategically coach and develop
5. Foster a data-based approach to design
6. Build the perception of the team as high performers
7. Protect the team from external noise and pressures
8. Celebrate the team internally for great creative work
9. Ensure quality and timely delivery of creative assets that drive the business
10. Global Activations - Concept through delivery of assets for PR, Social and Digital
11. Global Content - Concept through delivery of assets for Social and CRM
12. Partner with brand team to deliver brand & design strategies, and Global Campaigns
13. Support local markets in the adaptation of global assets
14. Support in finalising the new brand positioning and foundations
15. Input on brand positioning
16. Lead the development of brand guidelines
17. Support on the development of TOV guidelines
18. Develop processes for embedding brand guidelines into the business
19. Ensure brand guidelines are understood by all internal/external stakeholders
20. Partner with functional heads to plan to update of all existing brand assets
21. Manage the design workloads to update all existing brand assets
22. Audit the current design processes and look for ways to improve creativity and impact
23. Review meeting cadence and quality
24. Review collaboration with key stakeholders (e.g. digital) to improve learning
25. Review tools for storing and sharing creative assets and templates
26. Be the FREE NOW Design expert, educating and bringing the best of what's outside in
27. Monthly Design newsletters
28. Quarterly Design reviews

1. +10 years experience in Design
2. Demonstrable experience in leading and shaping a design team
3. Dynamic design portfolio showcasing strengths in typography, design, visual storytelling, campaign concept creation (motion), and art direction across all mediums - print and digital
4. Passion for various creative disciplines including branding, concepting, content, motion.
5. Design obsessed with finger on the pulse of what's hot and what's not.
6. Ability to work efficiently with tight deadlines.
7. Agility to adapt to changing requirements.
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
9. Data literate and motivated by learning approach to design
10. Self-starter with an always can-do attitude
11. Natural leader with energy and passion for people
12. Bias for action with a proven and demonstrable impact on a business
13. Highly critical thinker with willingness to shake things up
14. Collaborative, influential and with strong power of persuasion.