Head of Creative (Brand and Design Team)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid work

Salary: Competitive, based on professional experience

Company

hirify.global is a European automotive e-commerce platform operating across 27 countries with around 6,000 employees and millions of vehicle parts and accessories for car, truck, and motorcycle brands.

What you will do

• Set the creative direction for the brand and communications across markets and channels.
• Translate business and brand strategy into concepts, campaigns, and integrated creative ideas.
• Manage and develop graphic, brand, and motion designers through workload planning, critique, and feedback.
• Build design systems, brand guidelines, briefing frameworks, prioritization processes, and review workflows.
• Partner with Promotions, CRM, Private Brand, Internal Communications, Performance Marketing, and Product.
• Champion AI-assisted design tools and modern creative experimentation while maintaining craft quality.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a designer or art director with the ability to review and direct design work.
• Proven direct people management experience with a team of designers.
• Experience across identity and brand systems, campaign concepts, performance and CRM creative, and motion design.
• Strong creative operations, prioritization, resource management, and workflow skills.
• Fluency with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI-assisted design tools such as Figma Make, Adobe Firefly, or similar.
• Professional working proficiency in English and direct experience in the German, French, or UK markets.

Nice to have

• Experience adapting campaign strategies to markets with which you have less familiarity.
• Experience coordinating internal teams, freelancers, and external vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Stable employment in a fast-growing international company.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work.
• 25 working days of annual vacation, plus additional birthday, Municipality Day, and Carnaval days off.
• Meal allowance, healthcare coverage, mental wellbeing support, and retail discounts.
• Learning and development access with more than 650 courses, plus free English and German classes after probation.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV and portfolio.
• Present a focused selection of projects in depth, including the thinking, constraints, and possible improvements.