Senior Brand Designer / Team Lead Creation & Brand 80-100%

Senior Brand Designer / Team Lead Creation & Brand (m/f) 80-100% The NZZ is one of the most significant private media companies in Switzerland. It focuses on high-quality, independent journalism and represents liberal perspectives. With its products, it offers its readers and users guidance and inspiration daily. Senior Brand Designer / Team Lead Creation & Brand (m/f) 80-100% To continue and further develop our brand excellence, we are creating a new dual function within the Creation & Brand team as of 1 November 2026, at the design pulse of the times and to represent brand interests internally towards our various stakeholders: Your Tasks Together with the Head of Branding, you are responsible for the strategic further development of our Trust Brand and for the maintenance of the various NZZ brand identities and ensuring brand consistency across all channels. As an interface and translator, you accompany various internal teams in campaign planning, product launches, and special projects. Your focus is on collaborating with the leads of the Revenue Teams in Switzerland and in Germany. You will be graphically active yourself in day-to-day business and will be a sparring partner for colleagues or for special questions from other departments. You will inspire and lead our experienced 7-member Creation & Brand team, the internal advertising agency of the NZZ, decentralized in Switzerland and in Germany, with empathy. Together with the Senior Copywriter/Conceptor & Process Lead in the team, you plan resources and tasks aligned with the expertise of the team and optimize synergies and timings with the various stakeholders. Your Profile You have completed a degree in graphic design or a corresponding graphic education (Digital and Print) plus continuous further training. At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of Brand Design / Corporate Identity (agency or in-house). Initial sound experience in team leadership and an understanding of the complex leadership tasks within an expert team with great experience and strong opinions. A high sense for visual storytelling, brand management, aesthetics, as well as an understanding of the requirements for the brand transformation of heritage premium brands. Excellent knowledge of all common programs from the Adobe Creative Cloud to various AI tools in the area of Creative Automation. High implementation orientation and assertiveness in a matrix organization. Confident appearance during campaign presentations before the executive board. Willingness to balance stakeholder focus and quality requirements to ensure brand-compliant premium positioning. Stylistically confident German skills in speaking and writing. Our Offer Demanding, interesting and responsible activity in a varied and inspiring field of tasks with high individual responsibility and cross-departmental cooperation A working environment that allows freedom for innovative ideas and knowledge exchange Diverse further training opportunities A great working environment: We support the compatibility of professional and private life. Flexible working hours and a certain part of home office are a matter of course. Our office is centrally located "at Bellevue" in the heart of Zürich – with a view of the Opera House and the lake, in the immediate vicinity of various shopping facilities, restaurants and public transport connections. Rico Grass, HR Business Partner jpid1da7b2bjm jit0834jm jiy26jm