Senior Designer (m/f/d)

In this Senior Designer role, you lead the central Design Hub for Clarios EMEA Aftermarket, delivering scalable, brand-consistent creative assets across brands and markets. You combine hands-on design with creative leadership to shape campaigns and visual storytelling, while optimizing workflows with AI-enabled tools. You’ll collaborate with regional marketing and Corporate Communications to ensure impactful communication and scalable design systems. Join a global, sustainability-focused company and influence design priorities across a multi-brand portfolio.

• flexible working hours
• above-average vacation days
• mobile work policy
• company pension
• fitness center
• canteen/drinking facilities

• Own end-to-end creation of creative assets from brief to final delivery in collaboration with regional teams
• Translate master assets into market-specific deliverables with scalable reuse across EMEA
• Manage the Design Hub backlog including intake, prioritization, timelines and delivery commitments
• Allocate workload between Aftermarket EMEA (70%) and Corporate Communications (30%) based on prioritization
• Drive creative direction and campaign execution from briefs to visual concepts and assets
• Ensure consistent application of Clarios and product brand guidelines across all assets
• Define and improve the Design Hub operating model including briefing logic and processes
• Build and maintain scalable templates, tools and standards for asset creation and reuse
• Ensure asset lifecycle management including version control and DAM alignment
• Apply AI/GenAI tools to improve design efficiency and localization
• Plan and coordinate photo and video productions from briefing to delivery
• Manage design-related budgets across tools and production priorities
• Handle cross-functional collaboration with marketing, brand, and communications
• Support international/matrix structure with effective stakeholder communication
• Oversee photo/video shoots planning and execution as needed

• 6–8+ years of professional experience in graphic design, ideally in international or matrix organizations
• Senior creative experience (Creative Director, Art Director, Senior Designer, Visual Lead)
• Strong creative vision translating business needs into campaigns and scalable design solutions
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign); solid PowerPoint; Figma or Canva a plus
• Experience with AI-supported content creation and AI-based editing workflows
• Proven track record in building design systems and scalable processes
• Experience with asset management, version control and structured briefing workflows (DAM knowledge a plus)
• Strong project management to handle multiple stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables
• Experience in planning/executing photo and video shoots
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Fluent in English; German a plus

• collaborative mindset
• strong communication
• proactive problem solving
• Adobe Creative Suite
• PowerPoint
• Figma