Senior Designer - Brand Identity (m/f/d)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

  • Develop and design industry leading creative solutions for assigned concepts or category, to create a highly relevant, desirable, and clear adidas brand image, from sell-in to sellout (consumer-facing).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop creative solutions for Brand Expression, Identity and Branding systems, across multiple touchpoints, from 2D to retail to digital to motion
  • Develop concepts that fulfil objectives of category, concept, or brand briefs
  • Collaborate with Product Design team to ensure holistic storytelling
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure consumer- and brand focus
  • Lead the execution of creative strategies to ensure end to end creative excellence from product creation to sell-out (consumer-facing)
  • Direct a variety of creative resources (agencies, freelancers, writers, photographers, etc) on development of creative execution to ensure holistic creative excellence
  • May lead, mentor and administrate a team of internal direct reports
  • Review, feedback and approve all production stages of creative executions
  • Maximise results within given budget and timeframes
  • Participate in the creation of annual and long-term Creative Direction strategies
  • Present and communicate objective creative solutions with clarity, effectively selling in ideas to variety of stakeholders
  • Identify opportunities of improvement and change, and initiate own proposals/projects
  • Seek out new design resources that can deliver world class results
  • Creating 3D concept representation, 3D assets, digital product information for an accurate development and decision-making process

Key Relationships:

  • Design Directors, Creative Directors
  • Product Designers

 

  • Brand Communications
  • Channel teams: Retail, C2C, Digital, Social
  • Product Marketing Teams
  • External Creative Resources (agencies, freelancers, photographers, etc)
  • Brand Expression Operations

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Design apps: expert
  • IT skills: Microsoft apps: advanced
  • Strong visual and verbal skills with the ability to create impactful/exciting visuals
  • Strong interpersonal/communication skills to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
  • Art Direction of large-scale product and athlete/celebrity photoshoots
  • Demonstrate strong affinity and interest into current consumer trends, in sports, design and culture
  • Language: English: excellent
  • 3D skills and knowledge of virtual tools are required:
  • 3D tools: Cinema 4D or similar.
  • AI tools: Nano Banana, Vizcom, Firefly or similar

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • Under-graduate level Design education or combination thereof
  • Solid education and advanced experience in the creative development of communication tools
  • At least 8 years experience in Sporting Goods/Fashion Industry or Design on managerial level
  • Proven experience with the entire design process (project scope and time planning, design steps, production/execution of design solution, pre-press processes)
  • Passion for adidas and it’s mission
  • Passion for sports, culture, design


At adidas, we strongly believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our culture and talent processes gives our employees a sense of belonging and our brand a real competitive advantage.

– Culture Starts With People, It Starts With You –

By recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, we foster a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.

Job Title:  Senior Designer - Brand Identity (m/f/d)

Brand: 
Location:  Herzogenaurach
TEAM:  Design
State:  BY
Country/Region:  DE
Contract Type:  Full time
Number:  547192
Date:  Jul 15, 2026