Art Director (m/w/d)

• Lead Creative Vision: Develop strategies, ideas, and implement innovative brand concepts, designs, and campaigns – online, offline, retail, and restaurants.
• Develop and Evolve Brands: Build new brands from the ground up and elevate existing brands with fresh ideas and visionary design strategies.
• Packaging Design: Create packaging that aligns with brand identity and resonates with consumers.
• Production Management: Plan and oversee productions to ensure seamless implementation of creative projects.
• Project Prioritization: Effectively prioritize tasks and projects to ensure timely deliveries without compromising quality.
• Team Collaboration: Brief and lead the creative team, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
• Creative Direction: Coordinate and manage creative processes, ensuring all outputs meet the highest quality standards.

• Experience: 3-5 years of professional experience in an agency, CPG company, or startup environment. Experience in the food sector is advantageous and a strong plus.
• Language Skills: Fluent in German (required) and English, with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and stakeholders.
• Design Expertise: Proven track record in brand and packaging design, ideally in the food industry.
• Creative Excellence: Demonstrated expertise in creative direction, graphic design, and overseeing end-to-end production management processes.
• Tool Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of common design software (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite) for efficient creation of high-quality work.
• Visual Brand Identity: Ability to conceive, develop, and maintain consistent brand identities across multiple platforms and touchpoints.
• Photography & Videography: Basic knowledge of photography and video editing to effectively align and direct visual content.
• Copywriting Experience: A good sense for crafting messages and copy that complement and enhance the visual language.
• Motion Design: Basic knowledge of motion graphics and animation to support dynamic content creation.
• Project Management: Experience in managing creative budgets, collaborating with external freelancers or agencies, and implementing projects in a timely and targeted manner.

If you see yourself in this role and would like to bring our brands to life with your creativity and design expertise, we look forward to receiving your application! Please send us your CV along with your portfolio showing your best work.

1. Huge growth & even bigger growth ahead

LANCH is the fastest growing consumer company in DACH ever and it’s still the very beginning. A journey like this brings massive career growth trajectory for you.

2. Work with experiences founders & C-Level

Serial founders who have exited companies to Netflix, DeliveryHero, Bird and experienced C-Level such as the former DACH CEO of Oatly.

3. Trusted by the best investors out there

Raised oversubscribed pre-seed to Series A rounds in less than a year in the toughest venture market. Backed by Europe’s best investors such as HV Capital, Felix Capital, founders of FlixBus, Flaschenpost, Foodora, Foodspring, Glovo, Wolt or superstars like Mario Götze, Knossi, Luciano, André Schürrle & more.

4. Early enough to have huge impact but late enough to know the business works & scales fast

Timing is everything: joining LANCH now is the perfect timing. We already know the business works and we are planning to make >€50m in this 2nd year. However, we are still small and you will have massive impact and career growth ahead.

5. Culture, fun, success - join a great team

We make value-centered decisions and invest a lot in building an amazing team. We go skiing, rent castles and do cool things together. All while building a massive company.