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← All rolesDiscipline Brand & art direction Location Amsterdam · Hybrid Contract Permanent, full time Salary €62,000 – €74,000
Senior Designer, Identity
Lead identity systems from territory to handover, on projects where the documentation matters as much as the mark.
The role
You would join a team of four working on identity and packaging across culture, hospitality and consumer brands. Most of our identity work ends with a system handed to someone else's team, so this role is as much about writing rules clearly as it is about drawing marks.
We are employee owned and take on roughly fourteen projects a year. You would lead two or three of them annually, with support, rather than touching twenty at arm's length.
What you would do
- Lead identity projects from territory exploration through to handover
- Design typographic, colour and layout systems that survive third-party use
- Write the rule sets and build the templates clients actually work in
- Direct photography, illustration and print production alongside our production director
- Present work to client leadership and defend the reasoning behind it
What we are looking for
- Six or more years in identity or editorial design, some of it in a studio
- A portfolio with at least one system that other people had to use
- Genuine typographic ability — this is not a nice-to-have here
- Comfort writing clearly; our guidelines are prose, not diagrams alone
- Willingness to attend press checks and argue with printers politely
Useful, not required
- Packaging or structural design experience
- Signage or wayfinding work
- A second language (our clients are mostly European)
Hiring process
Four steps, and we pay for the exercise.
Conversation
An hour with Júlia and Hana about your work and how you think.
Paid exercise
A half-day brief, paid at day rate. You keep the work and we do not use it.
Studio day
Meet the team, see current projects, ask us the uncomfortable questions.
Employee ownership after two years
Four-day summer weeks, July and August
€1,800 annual learning budget, no approval needed
Paid press checks and site visits — travel is part of the craft
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