Highsnobiety

Berlin

Senior Designer (all genders)

FULL TIME ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 2 days ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Highsnobiety is seeking a Senior Designer in Berlin to join their Creative team and work across client, agency, and brand projects. Reporting to the VP Creative, Design, the successful candidate will lead projects from conceptualization through execution while mentoring junior staff.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead design projects across client and agency work streams
  • Translate creative strategy into strong visual concepts and systems
  • Develop layout and typography across digital and print platforms
  • Create visual storytelling for client facing presentations
  • Collaborate with strategy and production teams on deliverables
  • Provide guidance and informal mentorship to junior designers

Requirements Snapshot

  • Five or more years of experience in a design role
  • Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
  • Strong conceptual thinking and execution skills
  • Experience working in an agency or fast paced environment
  • Ability to present and explain design decisions internally

Expected Impact

The Senior Designer will elevate the visual quality of Highsnobiety's creative output while ensuring consistency and clarity across all deliverables. By improving workflows and mentoring junior talent, they will help future-proof brand partnerships and strengthen the agency's end-to-end creative solutions.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

Highsnobiety is looking for a Senior Designer to join the Creative team in Berlin, working across a diverse range of client, agency, and brand projects. This role is for a designer who is conceptually strong, visually confident, and able to take ownership of projects from idea through execution.

You will report to the VP Creative, Design, and play a key role in shaping creative output across multiple work streams. You will be expected to contribute strategically, elevate visual quality, and mentor more junior designers while remaining hands on in design execution.

Your Mission

Lead design projects across client and agency work, with occasional support of brand initiativesTranslate creative strategy and briefs into strong visual concepts and systemsOwn layout, typography, and visual language development across platforms and formatsDesign and oversee execution across digital, print, motion, spatial, and experiential outputs as required by the projectContribute to client facing presentations and visual storytellingCollaborate closely with creative direction, strategy, production, and project managementEnsure a high level of craft, consistency, and clarity across all deliverablesProvide guidance, feedback, and informal mentorship to junior designersIdentify opportunities to improve workflows, processes, and creative quality

Your Skills

5+ years of experience in a design role, ideally within an agency or fast paced creative environmentStrong conceptual thinking paired with excellent executionAdvanced skills in layout and typographyHigh proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and FigmaMotion skills are a strong plusConfidence presenting and explaining design decisions internallyAbility to balance creative ambition with practical constraintsAgency experience preferred

What We Offer

A bright and spacious design office, which reflects our brand and focuses on employee well-being and sustainability, located close to U KurfüstenstrasseThe opportunity to shape the company and help build a global brand in a motivating, international and diverse work atmosphereHigh degree of responsibility, creativity, originality, independence and creative autonomyWe are constantly prioritizing attention on DEIB with internal trainings, workshops, parent friendly policies and our Employee Resource Groups (HighPower, HighPride, HighDreams & HighCulture)2 extra days off globally for all employees on International Women's Day and JuneteenthFlexible hybrid working policy, dog friendly office, and remote international working benefitAccess to visa support for employees relocating to Germany if neededAttractive employee benefits (e.g. performance based bonus, ClassPass, OpenUp, bike leasing, sabbatical option)

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!!

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Highsnobiety is a global community of independent-minded creatives & professionals: Every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information. So if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

Highsnobiety is a global brand, sitting at the heart of culture that unites community, content and commerce.

Over the 19 years, our editorial and curatorial perspective has grown a community of Cultural Pioneers, a group whose social influence and ability to shape culture has become impossible to ignore.

For this audience, Highsnobiety is a destination to be kept ahead of the curve; a place to read and shop the latest stories, brands and products.

We are constantly investigating their relationship to a landscape we coined The New Luxury; a mindset that places stories over product and cultural knowledge over material possession.

What we’ve learnt from this community, we also share with our brand partners, ensuring they too can future-proof their business for tomorrow’s culture.

The Highsnobiety agency offers an end-to-end solution for brands, from consumer insights; strategy and consultancy; creative concepts and production and media.

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