Lead Graphic Designer

**YOUR MISSION**:
Parloa is looking for an experienced **Lead Graphic Designer (f/m/d)** to bring to life our brand’s visual identity across all touchpoints.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving art direction, design craft, and creative innovation**.**You will design and direct**high-impact brand campaigns, digital marketing, event design, product visualisation, high-stakes presentations, and more. You’ll join our in-house Creative Studio, reporting directly to our Chief Brand Officer, to set the standard for how Parloa shows up visually: hands-on in execution, decisive in direction, and professionally guiding a growing team of in-house and freelance designers. In addition, you will implement new innovative AI solutions to improve our team's execution speed and quality.

This**role combines design excellence, team mentorship, and AI-driven innovation. You’ll ensure that Parloa’s brand design system is not only consistent and precise but also visionary, guiding, and emotionally resonant.

**IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL**:

- Lead the creative development of assets across digital and physical channels.
- Partner with Marketing, Brand, Content, Product, Sales, and Partnerships teams to align visual storytelling.
- Set the visual bar, make art direction calls, and ensure brand fidelity across all creative assets.
- Create world-class assets yourself.
- Evolve and maintain our visual identity system.
- QA design outputs for polish, detail, and consistency.
- Mentor and guide a hybrid team of in-house and freelance designers. Run critiques and feedback sessions that help designers grow their craft and confidence.
- Support briefing and directing external creative agencies, while ensuring external partners deliver work that integrates seamlessly with in-house standards.
- Champion an AI-first design mindset: exploring and implementing generative image and video tools to scale creativity.
- Track and optimize team capacity, balancing high-impact projects with day-to-day execution. Manage design capacity, resource planning, and prioritization.

**WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE**:

- 7+ years of experience in graphic/brand design.
- A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional craft across brand, campaign, and digital, and has a deep understanding of how creative works in different marketing channels, i.e., events, social media, and displays
- Proven ability to lead art direction.
- Deep expertise in design systems (typography, color, layout, iconography, grids, graphic devices).
- Mastery of Figma and Adobe CC**.**:

- Experience managing hybrid design teams (in-house + freelance) and directing agencies.
- Fluency in AI-powered creative tools for image and video generation — and curiosity to stay ahead of emerging capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills: clear feedback, compelling presentations, and strong stakeholder alignment.
- Fluent in English (native or bilingual proficiency).

***WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?**:

- Join a diverse team of 40+ nationalities with flat hierarchies and a collaborative company culture.
- Opportunity to build and scale your career at the intersection of customer-facing roles and engineering in a dynamic startup on its journey to become an international leader in SaaS platforms for Conversational AI.
- Deutschland ticket, Urban Sports Club, Job Rad, Nilo Health, weekly sponsored office lunches
- Competitive compensation and equity package.
- Flexible working hours, 28 vacation days and workation opportunities.
- Access to a training and development budget for continuous professional growth.
- Regular team events, game nights, and other social activities.
- Work from home and/or our beautiful office(s) in the heart of Berlin or Munich with adjustable desks, social areas, fresh fruits, cereals, and drinks.
- Hybrid work environment - we believe in hiring the best talent, no matter where they are based. However, we love to build real connections and want to welcome everyone in the office on certain days.

**Your recruiting process at Parloa**:
Recruiter video call Meeting your Manager Challenge Task Expert interviews Bar Raiser Interview

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**Why Parloa?**:
Parloa is one of the fastest growing startups in the world of Generative AI and customer service. Parloa’s voice-first GenAI platform for contact centers is built on the best AI technology to automate customer service with natural-sounding conversations for outstanding experiences on all communication channels. Leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, Parloa creates intelligent phone and chat solutions for businesses that turn contact centers into value centers by boosting customer service efficiency. The Parloa platform resolves the majority of customer queries quickly and automatically, allowing human agents to focus on complex issues and relationships. Parloa was founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald and today employs over 400+ people in Berlin, Munich, and New York.

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