Serene is a new startup in stealth mode. Based on unique insights in the CRE (Commercial Real Estate) space we are creating a company for scratch with huge ambitions.

Do you want to join a startup in stealth mode as one of the earliest employees? Are you interested in making a significant impact in commercial real estate? We are a rethinking a sector in the real estate space through innovative tech, a new value proposition, and design.  

At a startup, design can’t be a service. It is about building a company and it involves not only designed the product but also how people will hear about it, what they’ll understand when they hear about it, making them try it and make that experience good enough to come back. All this needs to be designed.  

We are looking for a special talent, in terms of capabilities, personality, and ambitions. You will be offered a decent start salary (30.000 - 35.000 DKK a month) and a healthy equity stake with 4 years vesting.  

As a Creative Director, you will work within three specific areas and ultimately help drive clicks, conversions, and sales. So this is job is about more than pushing pixels - it’s about driving the business to reach the first important heights and make ground for user adoption and fast growth.  

Product design

You will be in charge of designing our MVP, both in terms of our online presence (mobile first website) and customer touchpoints and experiences in our physical spaces. In other words, you own the entire end-to-end customer journey and experience across touchpoints.

That also means that you will work with customer journeys, UX and UI. You will collaborate with developers and work with tight timelines as we as an early-stage startup must ship fast.  

As we go live you want to learn from users, look at data, iterate, test and make informed product design decisions.  

Branding & Graphical Design

For us, branding is more than just a logo, and brand colors. It’s about communication, telling stories, perception, trust, identity etc. And all of these come together in the form of components ranging from typography, colors, logo, icons, illustrations, ads, social media posts, decks, copywriting and so on.

You will create a brand voice, visual identity, and brand guidelines. Basically telling the right story to the right audience.  

Sales & Marketing

We believe that design and marketing need to go hand in hand. You must be aware of the user’s experience at every level, so we keep the same language across platforms and journeys. That will, for instance, mean that a landing page design continues the story that got the user in the door. You will work closely with marketing and ultimately take joint responsibility in growing clicks, conversions, repurchases and user satisfaction.

Personality/Skills and Experience

• Tech skills
  If you have experience in frontend technologies (CSS, HTML and responsive design) it would be a dream. If not, do not despair. However, you must have a good understanding of how technology works. We do not want your beautiful design to be marred because you don’t know about grids.

• Graphical skills
  You have experience as a designer and UI/UX. Throughout knowledge and experience in using Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) as well as confident knowledge of Sketch. Strong knowledge of color theory, typography, layout principles, and user interface design. You likely have a formal design education.

• Time and prioritization
  We will be both time- and resource-constrained in an early-stage startup as ours. Therefore it is vital to be laser-focused in a small subset of high impact work that can achieve multiple higher returns compared to other things.

• Embracer of change
  The only constant to expect is change. All of us should have an “always we learning” mantra and operate with an open mindset and use data, progress, and information to make informed decisions. We do not have space for ego.

• Teamwork
  Collaboration and communication are essential to creating good work and progress. You must like working in a team where we collaborate across functions.

• Customer-centric
  That means you understand the customer’s buying process and design experiences that cater to the ultimate journey. You are used to working with personas, data, tests, and iterations

Your title is Creative Director but you do not care...

Because you know that in an early-stage startup situation requires us to do everything. That means that sometimes we do customer support, sometimes we do sales although our business card (that we do not have) say something else. We also believe in living the customers' journeys as well as the journeys of other stakeholders. We operating and experience all aspects of the business can we create unique value for our customers.

On top of that, we hope that

• You set trends, don’t just follow them.
• You have early-stage startup experience.
• You have an impressive design portfolio and results to show. This is a must.
• You understand responsive design and grid structures.
• Data, data, data… You are data-driven.
• You have organizational skills and attention to detail and second to none execution ability.
• You possess ambitions on making an impact on the world and willingness to work hard, have fun, take a leadership role in the company and seeking meaningfulness in the work.
• You might speak Danish, you might not. You definitely speak and write fluent English. You are likely living in Denmark, probably in Copenhagen. But are you living somewhere else in Europe then you might also be a fit.
• You are open, curious and ambitious. You want to take center stage in a startup.