Lead Photo Creative (m/f/x)
Category Marketing, PR, & Communications Location Berlin, Germany
At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.
The role
You will lead a team of creatives, develop photo-first creative concepts and contribute in a conceptual and creative capacity to marketing and advertising campaigns and initiatives across all of our brands. Working in a multi-brand organization, you will leverage your expertise in concept development and visual execution to develop a creative vision for production teams to execute on. At the same time, you will ensure the consistency and quality of our photography through the development and refinement of guardrails and style guides for internal and external photo production.
Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t "tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.
What you’ll do
- Lead and inspire a team of creatives within the HelloFresh Studio on a daily basis
- Working as part of our Creative Leadership, while guiding your team on creative projects
- Collaborate with Studio Leadership and Producers on large marketing and lifestyle productions
- Deliver impactful creative concepts and turn that vision into reality in collaboration with our Photography, Styling and Post-production teams
- Manage relationships with stakeholders across all of our international markets and in the global organization
- Meet multiple ambitious deadlines, while relentlessly prioritizing creative projects and coordinating with multiple stakeholders
- Maintain a culture of creativity and efficiency, always supporting and mentoring your team and enabling their development
- Improve processes and workflows in collaboration with Studio Leadership
- Scale creative guidance and processes on large volumes of asset production, matching a constantly evolving business and its need
- Champion and drive continuous creative improvement efforts within the Studio team
What you’ll bring
- You are a seasoned professional with 7+ years of experience, ideally part of that in full-service creative agencies, and have at least 2 years of experience managing teams
- You are experienced in international organizations and working on-set with photo production teams
- You have a solid background in concept development and graphic design. Providing a portfolio is mandatory
- You have a deep understanding of digital marketing
- You are decisive, assertive but empathetic
- You are experienced in bridging the gap between marketing strategy and creative execution, translating business goals into impactful creative solutions
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence and motivate people at all levels across a broad variety of job functions
- You have a keen eye for detail and are thorough with administrative tasks
- You have strong communication skills, especially both spoken and written English
- You are an expert user of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Other tools are a plus
What we offer
- Comprehensive relocation assistance to move to Berlin plus visa application support (if applicable)
- A significant discount on your weekly HelloFresh box
- Annual learning and development budget to attend conferences or purchase educational resources plus access to the HelloFresh Academy
- Mental health support, including Headspace subscription and access to qualified therapists through Spill
- Budget for home office supplies
- Monthly transportation budget through Rydes app
- Working parents support
- Additional perks include: Annual German language budget, discounts for John Reed gyms & Urban Sports Club, regular company events, fresh fruit & free drinks in the office, in-house yoga classes, weekly discount on the Convini vending machine in the office
- Hybrid working model (option to work from home for up to 50% if preferred)
- Sabbatical leave option after 18 months of being with HelloFresh
- HelloFresh Pension Scheme that is subsidized with 20% on top
- A diverse and vibrant international environment of 90+ different nationalities
- The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in an exciting growth phase
Are you up for the challenge?
Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.
After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.
About HelloFresh
We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!
At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.
We want to adapt our processes and create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate our process. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with us in the application form.
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HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, please reach out to us at:
- Europe:EUaccommodations@hellofresh.com.
- APAC: APACaccommodations@hellofresh.com
