Product & Brand Designer for Climate Tech (Remote | English)

🌍 Marketing & Content Designer for Climate Tech (Africa | Remote | English)

Location: Fully Remote;

Employment Type: Full-Time or Independent Contractor

Languages Required: English (proficient)

Experience Required: 3+ years

Salary Range: EUR 15,000 – 25,000 gross per annum (depending on experience)

Reports to: Harry van der Weijde, Head of Research & Market Development

Works Closely With: Marketing Lead, Product Owner, Developers

Start Date Goal: 1 May 2026 or sooner (please let us know if you have a notice period)

🧭 About Us

We're a remote-first, mission-driven, registered non-profit, comprising around 50 highly-skilled and motivated professionals from all around the world! Our culture is built on trust, autonomy, and collaborative professionalism.

Open Energy Transition (OET) is a German non-profit organization, advancing the global energy transition by developing innovative open-source tools and data solutions for energy and grid planning. Our vision is to make open approaches the global standard by 2030, enabling energy planning that is more accessible, transparent, and effective.

We're now looking for a Marketing & Content Designer to join our growing team and professionalize our external visibility. This is an opportunity to take ownership of high-impact design and communication work in a mission-driven, autonomous, and fully remote company.

To learn more about OET and our team, you can visit our website, and browse around our Handbook.

🎯 About the Role

We're looking for a Marketing & Content Designer to help bring our brand and communications to life as we grow. Working closely with our Marketing Lead, you'll play a key role in executing how we show up across channels.

You'll refine and scale our visual identity to ensure consistent, high-quality branding, and create compelling assets for campaigns, partnerships, and product launches. Alongside this, you'll assist our Marketing Lead to write and develop content for our website, social media, and other communications, helping translate complex ideas into clear, engaging narratives.

This is a hands-on role with a lot of ownership, ideal for someone who enjoys combining design and storytelling to support a mission-driven organisation.

We're all about transparency, and want to give you the best possible opportunity to prepare for any potential interviews. To learn a bit more about the people you'll be working most closely with, click here:

Our Head of Research and Market Development, Harry van der Weijde, Our Head of People, Quintin Coetzee, and Our Marketing Lead, Charlotte Heikendorf

Please note that this is a permanent, work-from-home position as a Full-time employee or Independent Contractor (subject to negotiation and depending on your country of residence). No work travel is required.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Design System: Refine, maintain, and scale a cohesive design system to ensure consistency, efficiency, and high-quality design across product, brand, and communications.
• Graphic Design: Produce compelling templates and visuals for reports, presentations, marketing campaigns, social media, planning docs, and more.
• Content Creation: Write and develop content for social media, website pages, and marketing materials, translating complex topics into clear, engaging narratives tailored to different audiences.
• Campaign & Communications Support: Work closely with the Marketing Lead to execute campaigns and communications across channels, including social media accounts, Google Ads, our CRM system (Hubspot), etc.
• (Ideally) Web Design: Create and iterate on web page layouts, and graphics for our digital platforms, based on our design system. Design new websites for future projects. Work closely with our Software Engineers, and make their jobs easier by facilitating automation of design system implementation.

🖼️ Our Design Language (Please review before applying)

For examples of existing design work completed by and for OET, please refer to the links below. Your work would extend, and improve upon, our existing documents, website, graphics, and so on. Please only apply for this role if you believe your work experience and skills would complement our existing publications, website, design language, etc.

• https://zenodo.org/records/15006926
• https://openenergytransition.org/
• https://powernetzero.org/
• https://openenergybenchmark.org/
• https://open-esm-analysis.streamlit.app/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-energy-transition

✅ You'll Be a Great Fit If You Have...

• True passion for our mission: enabling better, faster and trusted decisions in the energy transition.

• A "builder" mentality: you are comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment and are eager to apply your skills to build something new.

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a Design role

• Proven experience with, among other things:

• Design system development

• Corporate branding and identity

• Graphic design for print and digital

• Presentation and publication design

• Copy writing on complex technical topics.

• Experience working with Figma, and the Adobe Creative Cloud (we will consider equivalent design software, so long as it meets the role's output requirements)

• Fluency in English (written and verbal). Other languages are a bonus

• A portfolio (PDF or link), showcasing your work is required. This may also be an Instagram or other social media account, so long as it's broad enough and representative of what you can do.

_A university degree is not required—your experience, communication skills, and work ethic matter most. However, if you happen to have a degree in design or a similar field, that may be considered a bonus.

_✨ What We Offer

• A flexible, fully-remote work environment where you're trusted to work very autonomously. Zero micro-management, as that goes against our culture.
• The opportunity to support hardworking, passionate, busy leaders who value and respect your contributions, and are working to create positive societal change in the energy sector.
• A culture that values transparency, empathy, trust, humility, diversity, collaboration, and recognition.
• We have an open-door policy, and value reciprocal feedback. You'll always know where you stand, and always have the ability to have your voice heard, simply by reaching out.
• A pretty flat hierarchical structure, where titles are not emphasized, and all contributions are valued.
• Competitive salary with growth potential. Any relevant benefits depend on your region of residence.
• Supportive onboarding and training, tailored to your strengths, interests, and career ambitions.
• The ability to be part of our formation! We're still growing, changing, and improving. Anyone who is part of our team now is able to meaningfully contribute towards our culture, and processes. We're open to all suggestions, and take them seriously!

📝 What Our Hiring Process Entails

We take hiring seriously, and want to bring on candidates who will contribute positively towards our culture just as much as they will succeed in their roles.

Also, we don't only want to have good outcomes from you. We also want you to feel happy and fulfilled in your position. That means we have a structured process to determine best fit. Our hiring process is as follows:

• Candidates apply via Greenhouse, and include as much information as possible and comfortable.
• Various team members of OET will shortlist candidates in our ATS.
• Certain shortlisted candidates will be contacted to arrange a screening call.
• Screening calls are conducted, and feature a max. 30 minute chat with our People Team.
• Certain candidates will go through to a first-round interview, of max. 1 hour, with our People Team. This interview will screen for a combination of competency and culture fit.
• Finalists will go through to a second-round interview, of max. 1 hour, with the OETers with whom they'll work most closely.
• Bonus round - there may be a short written assignment, depending on the role.
• The chosen candidate will be provided with an offer letter, and opportunity to ask any questions.
• Onboarding with our People Team begins.
• Your start date arrives!

➡️ How to Apply

If you're excited to improve upon the design work of an impactful, growing, global non-profit organization, feel free to apply! We'd love to consider you for this role.

Please submit an application via Greenhouse (our ATS), and include the following:

• Your CV (in English), including information about prior work and education, and current skills
• A link to your portfolio, showing examples of relevant design work. This is mandatory
• A short cover letter explaining why this role is a great fit for you, and why our mission excites you (please add a bit of personality if you wish)
• A link to your LinkedIn profile, and any other social profiles you wish to include
• Any relevant written references or testimonials (optional, but appreciated, and may give your application a boost)
• Your gross salary expectations, annually, in Euros (EUR). Please only apply if it is within the range posted in this ad
• Your notice period/available start date
• Any special needs requirements that may apply

If you have any questions about OET or the role, we'd be happy to answer them should we invite you to take part in a screening call or interview.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive, we are not able to respond to individual emails or LinkedIn requests. Kindly submit your application via Greenhouse, and we will shortlist and reach out to candidates. If you have not received a response within 3 weeks of submitting your application, please consider it unsuccessful at this point in time. We may, however, still reach out in future. Our team maintains Talent Pools, containing candidates shortlisted for contact for future roles that may arise.

We look forward to meeting the next person who will become an invaluable part of our team! Thank you for your time, and for considering joining OET. If this role is not for you, feel free to check back later for any future positions that may have been posted.