Senior Brand & Graphic Designer (JR2191) in Davos

The AO is a medically guided, not-for-profit organization, a global network of surgeons, and the world's leading education, innovation, and research organization specializing in the surgical treatment of trauma and musculoskeletal disorders.

We are home to people from all over the world, from different backgrounds, with diverse talents and specialist areas.

What binds us together is our passion for excellence, our dedication to our mission of improving patient care, and our understanding that we are stronger together: we are one AO.

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Short Description

As a Senior Brand & Graphic Designer, you will help shape and evolve the visual expression of the AO brand across all channels and touchpoints.

Beyond creating outstanding design, you will help maintain and evolve the AO brand ecosystem, ensuring consistent brand application across a complex international organization.

Working closely with colleagues across corporate communications and other business functions, you will help enable stakeholders to create high-quality, brand-compliant communications through effective tools, systems, and guidance.

• Main Responsibilities
• Create high-quality visual assets for digital and print channels, including presentations, infographics, campaigns, and corporate communications materials.
• Manage and evolve the AO brand guidelines and brand portal.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve brand guidelines, templates, design systems, and supporting tools that enable consistent and scalable application of the AO brand across the organization.
• Ensure visual consistency and quality across all brand touchpoints.
• Support the management and governance of design assets within the Digital Asset Management platform.
• Monitor brand portal and digital asset performance, usage, and adoption, using available reporting and insights to improve asset quality, findability, and stakeholder experience.
• Collaborate closely with corporate communications and business stakeholders to translate complex ideas into engaging visual solutions.
• Advise and enable colleagues through design guidance, templates, and brand education.
• Leverage AI-powered design tools and automation to improve efficiency, quality, and scalability.
• Main Requirements
• Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Brand Design, or a related field.
• Several years of professional experience in graphic design, brand design, or visual communication.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across digital and print media.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator, In Design, and Photoshop.
• Understanding of brand ecosystems and how brand guidelines, design systems, templates, digital assets, and brand portals work together to support consistent brand application.
• Experience creating, maintaining and applying brand guidelines across multiple channels and platforms.
• Strong understanding of typography, layout, color, and visual storytelling.
• Demonstrable interest in AI-powered creative tools, automation, and modern design workflows.
• Experience with Digital Asset Management systems or brand portals is an advantage. Familiarity with platforms such as Bynder is beneficial but not required.
• Experience using digital asset, brand portal, or content performance data to identify opportunities for optimization, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Fluent English; German is an advantage.
• Office presence: 1x a week in the AO Davos HQ

Portfolio

Please include a portfolio that demonstrates both visual excellence and design thinking.

We are particularly interested in examples of brand systems, templates, design guidelines, and work that helped scale or strengthen brand consistency across an organization.

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