Brand and Communications Designer (all genders)

The GROPYUS Design and Research Team is a multidisciplinary group of brand and product designers, qualitative and quantitative researchers, an analyst, and an operations specialist. Together, we uncover insights, identify opportunities, and design experiences that strengthen our brand, improve our products and services, and help deliver on our mission of creating sustainable living for everyone. 

The role  

You’ll be part of bringing our newly evolved brand identity to life, ensuring it is seen, felt, and experienced consistently across touchpoints. From applying and improving our visual systems and guidelines to crafting compelling communications across digital, print, motion, video, and experiential channels, you’ll help create a brand experience that is recognizable, engaging, and effective across both B2B and B2C audiences. 

But your work won’t stop at marketing channels. You’ll contribute to how our brand shows up across the business, from customer-facing communications and experiences to internal communications and key moments that shape how people interact with GROPYUS. 

You enjoy tackling new challenges, whether that's navigating an evolving brief, adapting to changing priorities, or designing for a touchpoint we've never explored before. By combining creativity, structure, and insight, you create thoughtful design solutions that balance user needs, brand consistency, and business goals. 

You bring strong craft and curiosity to your work, always looking for opportunities to elevate the quality and impact of what we create. You know when to explore new ideas and when consistency is the right answer, helping ensure our brand remains both distinctive and cohesive. Whether working on a major event, an employer branding initiative, or a fast-moving project, you take ownership of your work and contribute fresh thinking that strengthens our brand.  

You have a good eye for brand and a passion for creating engaging experiences. Working closely with colleagues across teams, you help translate brand guidelines and ideas into polished, high-quality outputs. Through strong execution, attention to detail, and a collaborative mindset, you contribute to a consistent and impactful brand presence. 

What to expect 

• Design and deliver brand assets and experiences across digital, print, web, social media, video, presentations, events, and internal communications, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints. 

• Bring creativity and craft to every project, exploring new ideas, formats, and approaches that strengthen our brand while meeting business and communication needs. 

• Create engaging visual stories through graphic design, motion, video, and animation, helping bring our brand and messaging to life for different audiences and channels. 

• Maintain and improve brand guidelines, templates, and toolkits by identifying opportunities for refinement and helping ensure a consistent and recognizable brand experience across all touchpoints. 

• Own design projects from brief to execution, translating requirements into thoughtful creative solutions and delivering high-quality work within agreed timelines. 

• Present and communicate design decisions clearly, incorporating feedback constructively and balancing creativity, quality, and business needs. 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Product, Sales, Sustainability, People, and Leadership to deliver effective design solutions and identify opportunities to improve how our brand is expressed.  

What you bring over 

• Education: Degree in Graphic Design, Communication Design, Visual Communication, Brand Design, Marketing, Communications, or similar field  

• Work experience: Minimum 3 years of creating outstanding brand, marketing, and communication materials across digital and print; experience in a startup or entrepreneurial environment is a plus. 

• Design toolkit proficiency: Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma, and collaboration tools such as Miro. Experience with motion and video tools such as After Effects and Premiere Pro is a plus. 

• AI curiosity & adaptability: Interested in how AI is shaping creative workflows and open to exploring new tools and ways of working. Experience with Claude Design, Claude Code or similar AI-powered tools is a plus. 

• Human- and planet-centered design: Understanding of inclusive, accessible, and sustainable design principles, with experience applying them in real-world projects and participating in Design Thinking processes. 

• Brand application: Experience applying brand systems consistently across a variety of touchpoints, including visual identity components such as typography, layout, imagery, illustration, and motion. 

• Concept development & prototyping: Able to rapidly explore ideas and create mockups, storyboards, and prototypes that help communicate and test design concepts. 

• Collaboration skills: Comfortable working with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Product, Sustainability, People, and external partners to deliver effective and cohesive design solutions. 

• Communication & presentation: Able to explain design decisions clearly, present work confidently, and incorporate feedback constructively to improve outcomes. 

• Language: Excellent communication skills in English; minimum German language skills at B1 level required. 
• Portfolio: A strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality design work across branding, marketing, communications, and digital experiences. 

Portfolio [Read carefully]  

Please share a link to your portfolio - this is the most critical asset you can provide as a designer. Ensure you provide the password if it is password-protected. Only apply if your portfolio has:  

• Recent work samples (not full case studies) - We want to see final outcomes of your design work from real-world output of brand systems and material. We must see a range of digital and print brand and communications work. Focus on work you are proud of. 

• Clear impact – Be clear about what you owned. What was the brief, what were the constraints, and the opportunities. Communicate what you worked on, why it mattered, and the impact it had.  

• Include a range of work to show your versatility, with a focus on the past 3 years.  

What we offer

• An unlimited contract with 30 vacation days.  

• Flexible, hybrid work: You can work from home or come into the office on the schedule that works best for you. Feel like traveling and working from another location? No problem. Tune into meetings and work from abroad for up to 40 days per year. In addition, flex hours allow you to prioritize important moments in your day.  

• Attractive perks and benefits: We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.   

• Virtual Shares Program: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.  

• Ownership: You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions – on  all our organizational levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.  

• The chance to be part of something big: Our mission is to rethink an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and fostering sustainable, affordable living.   

• A diverse and enriching work environment: Become a valued member of a wonderfully diverse team of individuals from over 50 countries. At GROPYUS we value inclusion above all, ensuring that everyone feels they belong – no matter their background. In this way, our differences become strengths that help us grow as a team.