Senior Brand Designer

Join our team in Cluj-Napoca as we are seeking a Senior Brand Designer to drive our creative vision forward. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping our marketing and sales collateral by providing expert visual direction. Working closely with both local and international teams (EMEA), you'll ensure that our global brand guidelines are applied and regionally adapted.

For over 100 years, Steelcase has been bringing human insight to business by studying how people work, wherever they work. Those insights can help organizations achieve a higher level of performance, by creating places that unlock the full potential of their people. Our goal is to help organizations create spaces that support how they work. Our passion is to help people love how they work.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Create and provide visual direction for the design of marketing and sales collateral in collaboration with local and international teams.
• Apply global brand guidelines across media for all brand touchpoints, adapting to regional and local needs.
• Liaise with stakeholders to understand their communication needs and translate them into clear design briefs.
• Collaborate with other team members to complete requests as needed
• Collaborate with external teams to complete requests as needed (local markets and other locations)
• Collaborate and communicate with internal subject matter experts, project managers, executives, the sales organization, and non-designers to meet business objectives
• Present ideas and direction on small to large projects, work through creative project issues and problems, and provide design and visual branding advice on projects.
• Review and approve designs, artwork, photography and graphics developed by other staff and subject matter experts.
• Provide design feedback and guidance to graphic designers and SMEs, ensuring that the creative approach is consistent across all materials.
• Maintain and update project and reference folders
• Participate in daily/weekly meetings and team rituals
• Maintain and update product knowledge (attend product training)
• Follow learning and development plan and update progress

Your Future Team:

We're a dynamic group of driven professionals, each excelling in our respective fields and committed to supporting one another toward our common goals. We approach our work with enthusiasm, leveraging our individual and collective strengths, expertise, and creativity to deliver outstanding results. We thrive on tackling challenges and thinking innovatively to achieve success. If you're a proactive individual with a can-do attitude, you could be the perfect addition to our team.

Who You Are:

Required Skills and Competencies

Please attach your portfolio to your application for our review.

• 3-4 years' work experience, preferably in a Brand building agency, Design agency or Interior Design firm
• Full proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong design, creative, communication and organizational skills
• Ability to interact and communicate design ideas with all levels of people, from contractors to executives
• Ability to work with global partners and thrive in a distributed team environment
• Critical eye for composition, color, lighting, design, tone and impact with excellent attention to detail
• Familiarity with various production techniques (both print and digital)
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Ability to independently manage large design projects
• Ability to define and navigate design problems and drive systems-based solutions
• Professional business English.

Preferred Skills and Competencies

• Degree/Diploma in Communication Design / Product Design / Interior Design / Computer Graphics / Multimedia or equivalent
• Skills in video, digital, animation, illustration and other design disciplines
• Any additional language (German OR French OR Spanish) would be a plus.

Benefits:

At Steelcase, we care about our employees and we want to recognize their effort through a significant package of benefits which includes fixed and flexible benefits (18.590 RON gross per employee/year).

Flexible benefits budget that can be spent on any of the following options:

• Reimbursement of your outside country vacation up to 6000 RON/year and vacation vouchers for Internal tourism
• Trainings and accreditation in accordance with your job description
• Reimbursement for public transportation or fuel
• Meal tickets
• Private pension
• Gift vouchers for special events according to the legislation: Christmas, Easter, 8th March, 1st of June
• Culture vouchers (for bookshops, theaters, cinemas, festivals, concerts etc.)
• Sports discounts for gyms, spa & relax, sport equipment and articles... and others

Fixed benefits:

• 25-30 days of annual leave (depending on your seniority)
• Healthcare Subscription at Regina Maria: Expert Complete package
• Private Life Insurance, with coverage for temporary work incapacity and critical illness up to 90000 RON
• Private Health Insurance with coverage for hospitalization and surgery costs up to 8000 RON/year
• Financial support for special life events
• Work anniversary and birthday kits
• Learning & Development opportunities via Udemy, EdX, internal trainings etc.
• Office perks: well-being initiatives
• A hybrid model of work and flexible program

Who We Are:

Steelcase is a global design and thought leader in the world of work. Along with our expansive community of brands, we design and manufacture innovative furnishings and solutions to help people do their best work in the many places where work happens.

Why People Choose to Work with Us: