Position Summary

IDEO helps companies innovate. We design products, services, environments, and digital experiences for organizations seeking new ways to provide value for their customers. IDEO creates visible and tangible strategies for innovation and executes all aspects of design and development, from conception through production.

We are seeking a mid-level Brand Strategist /Communication Designer to join our Munich Location.

What's that? May we translate? We want someone who likes to blur the lines between market, positioning, strategy and creative. We want a thinker and a maker. That means you have the strategic chops AND the creative talent. So if you've never done any kind of get-your-hands-dirty creative work, this isn't the right role for you. You must have strong brand design skills for this role, such as graphic design, copy-writing, film-making, photography, and so on. We absolutely need someone who can produce great creative work themselves, as well as guide the creative work of others.

Design-related content expertise

The ideal candidate has a domain expertise or is known as a discipline expert in one of the following areas: communications (graphic design, writing), brand design, brand strategy or product strategy. Candidates must be generative of content and experienced in the creation of design deliverables.

Client facing skills

Successful candidates must be comfortable with clients, working as collaborator and/or strategic consultant, and able to effectively share their point of view and expertise. This position will require frequent contact with clients, through email, phone and in-person meetings. In other words, you are able to think very quickly on your feet, speak confidently, credibly, and successfully make your case to even the most skeptical client. This is not a role for the shy or timid.

Communication skills

Candidates must have strong presentation, verbal and written skills. He/she understands the business environment and what clients need to make something actionable. Successful applicants understand the value of design and brand within a design and business context. Candidates can share and influence through an ability to articulate concepts clearly and in a compelling way and a base level of graphic design skills to support it. He/she has an intuitive sense about what is important to deliver and how to deliver it. Style matters as much as substance.

Leadership skills

Successful applicants have achieved high-quality work output through collaboration with others. They have the talent to lead and inspire diverse teams through collaboration and respectful influence, not control, as well as direction, vision and planning.

Experience

Applicants should have at least 3 years of content-related design experience, preferably in a variety of industries or products, ideally supported by project management capabilities, client facing skills, comfort working in multidisciplinary teams and excellent communication and organizational skills. Moderate travel will be required.

Interested? We’re looking forward to receiving your portfolios (please don’t send printed portfolios). If there's an immediate match between your talents and our needs, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us within 6 weeks, please assume that we do not have an appropriate opportunity at this point.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:
IDEO is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.