About the Role
Ocean Infinity is seeking a Lead Brand Design to build the visual identity of one of the world's most unusual technology companies from scratch. This role sits within the creative studio's brand and design track and is responsible for authoring OI's visual identity system, leading the design team, and owning the craft standard for all company publications.
Responsibilities
- Build OI's visual identity system defining the visual expression of the company across every touchpoint.
- Produce brand guidelines that govern how OI's identity is applied.
- Lead and develop the brand and design team.
- Build the design system, including scalable templates and asset libraries.
- Execute graphic design across all formats, including presentations, proposals, print, digital, and environmental.
- Direct environmental design, translating OI's identity into physical spaces.
- Own creative review within the brand track, ensuring outputs meet quality standards.
- Collaborate with the Creative Director, Change & Comms, and commercial verticals to produce brand-aligned creative.
- Contribute to hardware design concepts with visual input on new vessel and payload concepts.
- Own brand coherence across the business, reducing fragmentation and duplication in visual output.
Requirements
- Proven experience building visual identity systems from scratch.
- Experience directing designers and owning team output.
- Expert command of typography, layout, and composition.
- Brand strategy awareness.
- Fluent in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).
- Understanding of motion as brand expression.
- 7–10 years experience, agency-trained with in-house experience at a technology or B2B company.
- A portfolio that shows the difference between executing a brief and authoring a brand.
Skills
- Ability to work as a trusted advisor with senior stakeholders
- Strong leadership skills
- Strong communication skills
- Driven, proactive and able to work autonomously with little supervision towards the company's purpose
- Critical thinking and ability to show initiative
- Ability to take ownership and engagement in the work
- Open and receptive to new and different ideas
- Experience in environmental or spatial design
- Familiarity with motion design tools (After Effects, Cinema 4D)
- Experience working in a technology, maritime, defence, or industrial sector
- Portuguese or UK-based
Location
- Porto
- London
Work Type
- Employee
- In-person collaboration
Experience Level
- 7-10 years experience
Salary/Compensations
- Porto: Up to €80,000 per annum
- London: Up to £90,000 per annum
About the Company
- We are using and creating technology to transform operations at sea to enable people and the planet to thrive.
- We are open-minded and fearless in our approach to innovation and don't believe in boundaries.
- We challenge everything and have massive ambitions to drag aging industries into the tech era.
- We take safety, equality and education very seriously, and our responsibilities don't stop at our front door.
- Our business is built on the belief that there's definitely a more environmentally responsible way to operate at sea.
- We employ people who share our core values. We expect our people to be courageous, trustworthy, and conscientious, driven by a desire to do the right thing.
- We strive for excellence, work collaboratively, and are genuinely excited by our work.
- We offer opportunities for our people to develop beyond their role and span a multitude of disciplines.
- These are open to all, regardless of background and experience level.
- Working with us means being part of a team that is harnessing technology and creativity to disrupt a traditional industry.
- We are not your average workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- At Ocean Infinity, we believe in creating equal opportunities for all, celebrating each and everyone’s differences.
- We are driven by transforming the industry, through our technology, thoughts, behaviours and actions.
- Being inclusive and respectful to all is fundamental to who we are.
- It is the right thing to do and enables innovation and creativity to thrive.
- There is more work to be done, and we know that we aren’t perfect, but our commitment to these values is unwavering.
- They are central to our mission and the impact we have on the industry, meaning, we cannot live without them.
