As our Head of Brand Design in Qonto’s very international environment, you will guide and support all Qonto teams in the development and execution of a world-class brand.

As part of our Design Studio, you will report to Mathieu (our Design Director) and work with our talented designers, who are all passionate and skilled in solving conception/design problems.

We have just rebranded to reflect a more mature positioning. The scale of our challenge is growing, so our ambition to become one of the most established brands is even stronger. The challenge is to make this new brand live and evolve in that direction.

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As Head of Brand Design at Qonto, you will

• Demonstrate creative leadership: You will challenge, influence, and deliver at an expert level the Artistic Direction of the Brand, bringing ideas, inspiration, and creative thinking.

• Deliver: Manage internal brand design teams and external creative partners to ensure the team achieves project goals, meets the highest quality standards, and delivers on time.

• Develop: Coach managers and designers in the Brand Design team, to create an efficient environment for them to learn and grow.

• Step up: Increase design quality by building our design system, defining standards, improving them, and training your teammates to use them.

• Collaborate: Work closely with marketing and engineering teams to break silos and deliver meaningful projects for our customers.

• Recruit: Hire new team members to help the Brand Design team grow as fast as the company

• Stand out: Make the design team shine outside the company: write blog posts, organize and speak at conferences, and represent the company at events to make Qonto a design reference in the industry.

🤔 What you can expect

• Join a large design studio of 65+ talented designers, one of the largest in Europe.

• Collaborate with a variety of profiles and expertise: Motion designers, Illustrators, Product designers, Copywriters, System Designers, etc...

• Contribute to building an international brand with ever-evolving challenges (eg. Creating our next advertising campaign)

• Work with renowned agencies and studios in the creative sector

• Practice and coach a methodology which empowers individuals and teams in their own development.

🤝 Your future Manager 

• His path? Worked for different industries and companies: advertisements, start-up, and CAC 40 firms, developing skills in creating business impact, brand scaling, sharing knowledge, and transforming brand organization. Now, he is leading a growing team of 70 people at Qonto with the help of his managers Marina, Carla, Julien, & Mélanie.

• What can he bring to the team? Upon joining Qonto, Mathieu created a real collaborative team from scratch making the Design team going from 6 people to 70 within the past 2 years. His scope comprises Brand Design, Product Design, UX Writing & Design systems for all the branches of Qonto (FR, IT, DE, ES). He will be the perfect manager to help you grow in your understanding of UX Writing, Brand Design, Design Systems & Management.

🏅About You

• Experience: You have at least 7 years of experience with a proven track record of designing large-scale brands

• Leadership skills: You are motivated to grow in terms of management and have demonstrated your ability to develop people by leading managers and mentoring senior designers

• Communication skills: You are able to pitch, convince and collaborate with high-level stakeholders.

• Mastery: You possess a strong design acumen and can guide other teams in the use of a design system and brand foundations.

• Make an impact: You want to design a brand that is used by thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment.

• Continuous improvement: You thrive to get better every day even if it means learning from your own mistakes.

• Languages: You are fluent in English.

🎁 Perks

A laptop. An inclusive work environment. A tailor-made career track. And so much more to help you succeed…

Office & Team Life

- A fully-renovated building in the center of Paris with WeWork services

- The latest equipment from Apple

- Monthly team events

- Free coffee and snacks in the kitchen

All our benefits

- A competitive salary package

- Remote Policy: from 2 days per week to Full remote

- 5 to 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days

- Alan health insurance, Moka Care to take care of your mental health, and Gymlib for sports and wellness activities

- Swile Card for lunch

- An inclusive environment with a focus on parity: 44% of our teams are women

- A progressive parenthood policy as part of our commitment to the Parental Act (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners

- Relocation package and visa sponsorship for international talents (we have 60+ nationalities) including access to Busuu to improve your language skills

- Career tracks and mobility opportunities that can match all expectations

💪 Our hiring process:

- A 60 min video call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers, to better understand your career plan and answer any questions you may have

- A 60 min video call with your future manager, to be aligned on expectations on both sides and to talk about how you would work together

- A remote exercise to evaluate your skills and give you a taste of what working Qonto could be like

- Video calls or onsite interviews with future team members (optional) to help you understand what working at Qonto is like

- A final video call or onsite interview with the manager of your future Department

We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞