Senior Art Director (Berlin, hybrid)

Company details

Description of the offer

We’re in an exciting growth phase following our Series B funding and are expanding our team. Our hybrid working culture includes three office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) at our Berlin headquarters. Looking ahead, we’re also growing London as our second location, with a new office planned for 2025.

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow.
• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch
• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 30+ different countries
• Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product managers and designers are at the core of Kittl – shaping an engineering driven working culture
• Strong funding: Raised over $45M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma

   

Learn more: www.kittl.com/career

Your role at Kittl

The Senior Art Director will play a strategic and hands-on role in shaping the visual direction and creative quality of Kittl’s template library. Reporting directly to the Product Content Lead, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, template reviewers, and creators to ensure that Kittl’s templates are not only trend-responsive but also forward-thinking, unique, and aligned with the evolving needs of professional designers. This role includes managing one direct report (Art Director).

What you’ll do 

• Template strategy & vision: Own the template roadmap, spot trends, identify gaps, and shape the creative vision
• Creative direction: Oversee visual quality, maintain design standards, and define guidelines across categories
• Production oversight: Lead the end-to-end template production, ensuring diverse, timely, high-quality output
• Innovation & trends: Monitor industry trends and translate high-level goals into actionable creative directions
•  Team leadership: Manage and mentor the Art Director, aligning creative work with strategic goals
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Product, Marketing, and Community teams to align template content

   

What you’ll need

• Experience & portfolio: 5+ years in graphic design, branding, or visual content creation, with a strong portfolio across styles and formats
• Creative & design expertise: Solid understanding of design systems, typography, composition, color theory, and adaptation across platforms
• Project & team management: Proven ability to juggle multiple projects, lead or mentor designers, and maintain high creative standards
• Strategic thinking: Skilled at interpreting briefs and delivering visually compelling, strategically aligned outcomes
• Cross-functional collaboration: Comfortable working with product, marketing, and content teams, presenting ideas with clarity and confidence
• Technical skills: Hands-on with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and more; bonus for experience with templates, digital products, or creator platforms

Interview process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)
• Hiring manager interview (45 min)
• Take-home assignment followed by a presentation to the team (60 min)
• Stakeholder interview with Chief Product Officer & Growth Lead (45 min)
• Bar raiser interview with Chief of Staff, right hand to CEO (45 min)

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo
• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done
• Who goes above and beyond in their role
• Who is deeply passionate about what they do

Benefits

• Maximise your impact: No matter if you’re leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise – all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact
• Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing.
• Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun
• Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am–5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style
• Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours
• Learning & development: Our L&D budget supports your professional growth
• Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket
• Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount
• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

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