Startegic Brand & Design Manager

Location: Barcelona, Spain. Hybrid arrangement with work from home up to 2 days per week depending on team needs. Flex-Location allows up to 30 days per year working from another location worldwide.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and communication solutions for airports, airlines, borders, and the global air travel industry.

What you will do

• Build and evolve hirify.global’s strategic brand platform, including brand architecture, personality, verbal identity, and visual identity.
• Own corporate messaging architecture and tone of voice for portfolio and business unit communications.
• Set design direction and personally direct flagship publications, executive presentations, films, and event environments.
• Shape brand experiences at exhibitions, demonstrations, and briefing spaces, including narratives, staging, and demo flows.
• Own brand guidelines, templates, asset libraries, review processes, creative briefs, and agency quality standards.
• Lead the brand manager, graphic designer, video team, creative director, and senior design stakeholders.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in brand, design, or creative leadership, including 3 or more years in a senior team-management role.
• Proven experience owning and evolving a B2B brand and managing creative directors or senior designers.
• Experience working in a matrixed global organization and managing external agencies from briefing through execution.
• Strong brand strategy, creative direction, communication, budget, timeline, and agency-management skills.
• Publication-ready written and verbal English, with the ability to prepare brand rationales, creative briefs, and board-level summaries.
• Experience in technology, aviation, or another complex industry is advantageous.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive international environment operating across 200 countries and 60 languages and cultures.
• Flex Day arrangements to adapt working hours to personal needs and plans.
• Employee Assistance Program and Champion Health wellbeing platform for employees and dependents.
• Professional development through LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft’s Enterprise Skills Initiative, Pluralsight, Harvard Business Publishing, Stanford, and other learning platforms.
• Competitive benefits aligned with the local market and employment status.