Position Title: Strategic Brand Designer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Description of the Assignment:

• You will join the Clients' Brand Experience Design team - a cross-functional group where curiosity, ambition and a brand mindset are deeply valued.
• They collaborate closely with all design departments to shape the mobility experiences of tomorrow.
• As a Design Strategist, you bridge the gap between creative product design and brand design.
• You translate insights and ambitions into tangible design directions that drive innovation and measurable results.
• Rather than waiting for perfect briefs, you take initiative - identifying opportunities, shaping concepts and visualizing ideas that move the project forwards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic design explorations to define product visions, value propositions and user experiences.
• Translate research, insights, and data into clear, actionable design directions.
• Create visual narratives and prototypes - from storyboards and presentations to concept sketches and experience mockups.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (design, marketing, engineering) to align design intent with strategic goals.
• Identify unmet user and market needs and turn them into new opportunities for innovation.
• Facilitate workshops and communicate ideas with clarity and emotional impact.

Qualifications and Skills Required:

• 5+ years of professional experience with design strategy (preferably in automotive, luxury, fashion, gaming, or tech industries)
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a premium visual aesthetic and storytelling ability across multiple formats (CGI, film, stills, motion, interactive)
• Proficiency in visualization tools such as Blender, VRED, Keyshot, or similar
• Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional creative teams
• Ability to clearly present ideas and lead visual concepts from ideation to execution
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal

Personal Attributes:

• Strong drive, collaborative and organized as well as a good team player
• Strong visual communicator and comfortable presenting results
• Equally comfortable with ambiguity and execution, knowing when to explore or when to decide
• Passionate to work on ambiguous and complex future challenges
• Cultural awareness, especially Chinese and Northern European culture

Additional Information:

• Travels to China may be needed (approx. 1-2 trips per year).
• Everyone in our team has a high level of responsibility and mandate and is expected to be able to work autonomously
• Fluent in English, spoken and written
• Driver's license

IT/SW Requirements:

• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• After effects
• Blender
• Microsoft Office
• Design Portfolio (PDF format, 10MB maximum file size, please)

Why work through Contechs?

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