Senior Designer (m/f/d)

As a technology leader with strong brands (i.e. VARTA® and OPTIMA®), Clarios is producing the world’s best batteries, essential for the evolving future of transportation. Our advanced, low-voltage batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. Ready to direct your talent and coordination expertise towards shaping the future of our global standards at Clarios? Then take on the challenge and become part of our Aftermarket team!

Power your future with Clarios and explore the possibilities with us.

As Senior Designer (m/f/d), you will establish and lead a central Design Hub for the Clarios EMEA Aftermarket, delivering high-quality, scalable, and consistent creative assets across brands, channels, and markets. You will combine hands-on design expertise with strong creative leadership, shaping campaign concepts, visual storytelling, and efficient creative processes. Working closely with regional marketing teams and Corporate Communications, you will ensure impactful, brand-consistent communication and drive innovation through scalable workflows and AI-supported solutions.

The position will be based in our Clarios EMEA office in Hannover, Germany.

What you will do

As Senior Designer (m/f/d), your responsibilities will include:

• Own end-to-end creation of creative assets from brief to final delivery in close collaboration with regional marketing, trade marketing, digital, product marketing, brand management and Corporate Communications

• Translate master assets into market-specific deliverables, ensuring brand consistency, local relevance and scalable reuse across EMEA

• Manage the Design Hub backlog, including structured intake, prioritization, capacity planning, timelines and clear communication of delivery commitments

• Allocate and align workload across Aftermarket EMEA (≈70%) and Corporate Communications (≈30%) based on transparent prioritization

• Drive creative direction and campaign execution by turning marketing briefs and business needs into clear visual concepts and assets

• Ensure consistent application of Clarios and product brand guidelines (e.g. VARTA, OPTIMA) across all assets, acting as visual brand guardian for Aftermarket EMEA

• Define, implement and continuously improve the Design Hub operating model, including briefing logic, intake processes, prioritization rules and stakeholder interfaces

• Build and maintain scalable templates, tools and process standards to streamline asset creation and reuse

• Ensure structured asset lifecycle management, including version control, handover, archiving and alignment with DAM processes

• Apply AI and GenAI tools to improve design efficiency, including image/video generation, editing workflows and localization support

• Plan and coordinate photo and video productions, including briefing, setup alignment and delivery of final assets

• Manage design-related budgets across tools, software and production, ensuring alignment with campaign and Design Hub priorities

What makes you a good fit

• Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Creative Direction, or a related field

• 6-8+ years of professional experience in graphic design, ideally in an international or matrix organization, agency, or in-house design hub

• Experience in a senior creative role such as Creative Director, Art Director, Senior Designer, or Visual Lead

• Strong creative vision with the ability to translate business needs into impactful campaigns and scalable design solutions

• Advanced hands-on expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and solid PowerPoint skills; Figma or Canva is a plus

• Experience with AI-supported content creation, including image/video prompting and AI-based editing workflows

• Proven track record in building design systems, templates, and scalable creative processes

• Experience in asset management, version control, and structured briefing workflows (DAM knowledge is a plus)

• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables

• Experience in planning and executing photo and video shoots

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional and non-design stakeholders

• Fluent in English, German is a plus

What we offer you

As a technology leader, Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:

• Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international future-oriented environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement, and sustainability.

• Arrange your working hours and breaks flexible via our flexible working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our above average number of vacation days, mobile work policy and company kindergarten.

• A competitive remuneration package, including additional payments as well as company pension scheme.

• Your well-being is very important to us: Take advantage of our preventive health care offers such as fitness center, physiotherapist, modern office environment, healthy canteen, team and company events or hobby clubs.

• Stay fit whilst at the same time positively contributing to our environment: Lease your company bike.

• Our well-advanced onboarding process and buddy program supports you to quickly grow into the position and team. By using the offering in our Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally.

• Last, but not least we support you in relocating and finding an apartment in your work location, if applicable and depending on individual factors.

You want to learn more about the position and our EMEA region? Check out our regional page and get in touch with our recruiting team.

About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus - advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF).

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