Creative Director (Brand) (d/f/m)

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own building and leading a European B2B brand from strategy to identity, campaigns, and brand experiences, while scaling a creative team and managing partners to drive awareness, trust, and local relevance.

  • Brand strategy and differentiation: Define and evolve Personio’s brand strategy and positioning for Europe, clarifying what we stand for, what makes us distinct, and how we translate that into consistent expression across markets.
  • Creative direction and craft leadership: Set the creative bar for Personio and raise it continuously. You’ll shape concepts, give crisp feedback, and ensure excellence across design, motion/video, and experiential.
  • Design leadership: Lead our in-house creative studio as a high-performing service for marketing and adjacent teams, effectively balance quality, speed, and stakeholder needs.

Job Description

Own building and leading a European B2B brand from strategy to identity, campaigns, and brand experiences, while scaling a creative team and managing partners to drive awareness, trust, and local relevance.

  • Brand strategy and differentiation: Define and evolve Personio’s brand strategy and positioning for Europe, clarifying what we stand for, what makes us distinct, and how we translate that into consistent expression across markets.
  • Creative direction and craft leadership: Set the creative bar for Personio and raise it continuously. You’ll shape concepts, give crisp feedback, and ensure excellence across design, motion/video, and experiential.
  • Design leadership: Lead our in-house creative studio as a high-performing service for marketing and adjacent teams, effectively balance quality, speed, and stakeholder needs.
  • Brand identity and creative systems: Own and evolve our visual and verbal identity, guidelines, and creative system. Create strong guardrails and practical toolkits that enable teams to ship great work at speed.
  • Integrated brand campaigns: Lead the development of brand campaigns and activations, translating strategy into work that drives awareness, preference, and trust, and supports marketing priorities.
  • Brand experiences (events): Oversee the strategy and creative expression of key brand experiences (Tier One industry events and HUG, our annual conference) ensuring they feel unmistakably Personio.
  • Team and vendor management: You will lead and develop a team as well as manage external vendor relationships to deliver on your brand objectives.
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Personio

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Founded in 2015 and built in Europe, Personio is the Intelligent HR Platform championing every side of HR's evolution.As work becomes more complex and HR's role more strategic, most technology still treats HR as one-dimensional. We see it differently. Trusted by over 16,000 customers managing more than 1 million employees globally, Personio is built for everything HR has become. We support organisations of all sizes and industries, but specialise in global companies with between 200 and 5000 employees. We connect Core HR, Talent, and Payroll in one intelligent platform. Our platform eliminates manual work through automation, adapts to multi-entity complexity with flexible workflows, and transforms people data into strategic insights with AI.Personio is built with deep European expertise, and we're the only HR platform with native payroll in Germany—Europe's most complex market. Plus we offer comprehensive apps to manage the entire employee lifecycle including recruiting, performance, compensation, and feedback. From implementation to everyday support, Personio is your partner from day one. We focus on the real challenges of HR and build with purposeful AI that amplifies the power of HR teams. We help organisations around the world unlock the power of their people.

Founded in 2015
Munich, Bavaria, DEU
1.7K employees (110 in marketing)
61% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.9%
Direct
70.8%
Referral
9.5%
Social
2.4%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
58 (3% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$724M
Last Raise
$200M
Series E, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Series E • $200M
  • Oct 2021
    Series E • $269.7M
  • Jan 2021
    Series D • $125M

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