Marketing Design Lead (f/m/d)

is Germany's best-known AI company. We develop neural networks to help people work with language. With DeepL Translator, we have created the world's best machine translation system and made it available free of charge to everyone online. Over the next few years, we aim to make DeepL the world's leading language technology company.

Our goal is to overcome language barriers and bring cultures closer together.

What distinguishes us from other companies?

DeepL (formerly Linguee) was founded by developers and researchers. We focus on the development of new, exciting products, which is why we spend a lot of time actively researching the latest topics. We understand the challenges of developing new products and try to meet them with an agile and dynamic way of working. Our work culture is very open because we want our employees to feel comfortable. In our daily work we use modern technologies - not only to translate texts, but also to create the world's best dictionaries, and solve other language problems.

When we tell people about DeepL as an employer, reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Maybe it's because they have enjoyed our services, or maybe they just want to get on board with our quest to break down language barriers and facilitate communication.

What will you be doing at DeepL?

Lead our growing marketing design team and be a core part of its development within a cross functional, highly passionate environment with a global scope.

Your responsibilities 

• Lead marketing and branding design team
• Nurture, grow, and develop design talent in the team
• Foster collaborative culture within your team and with product designers and copywriters
• Develop and improve design processes across the organization
• Champion brand, copy and design standards and design system and ensures their use
• Partner with Marketing and Product to define marketing design strategy
• In collaboration with user research, develop and promote deep understanding of users and their needs and how they translate in marketing opportunities
• Ensure high level of design craft within the track

What we offer

• Interesting challenges: design, programming and research at the highest level
• A friendly, international, and highly committed team with a lot of trust and very short decision-making processes
• Work on a product that more than 100 million people already use
• Meaningful work: We break down language barriers worldwide and bring different cultures closer together
• A comfortable office in Cologne, Amsterdam or London (or suitable equipment for your home office) and a lot of flexibility

About you

• 7+ years of marketing and graphic design
• 2 years of successful management of designers in multidisciplinary teams.
• Experienced working on a product at scale, with an international footprint
• Extensive knowledge of design processes
• You base your decisions on facts, not opinion, and always seek to validate your assumptions
• Solution-oriented and result-driven
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Resilient and able to deal with uncertainty
• Fluent in English. Other languages are an advantage