When travellers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! By comparing prices from major booking sites, we're making it easy for people to find hotels they want at a price they’ll love. In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. A career at trivago is a journey designed for people who crave continuous development and want to thrive in a high-performing team. Here you will find those who aren't afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!
Join us in making a difference
Are you a seasoned Motion Designer with a sense for communication design and a passion for new technologies? Do you excel at transforming complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals that enhance brand identity and drive performance marketing results? If so, we invite you to join our Brand and Creative Production team, where your creative vision will elevate our projects and help reinforce our brand expression across multiple channels.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Conceptualize, design, and animate dynamic visuals for TV commercials, digital marketing campaigns, and paid social media that clearly communicate trivago’s brand messages
- Collaborate with our brand and marketing teams to develop visuals that not only resonate with audiences but also drive measurable performance in marketing campaigns
- Work closely with our creative team to refine visual narratives that align with brand strategies, ensuring every piece of content reinforces our brand identity
- Manage and contribute to multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and exceptional quality while transparently communicating the technical possibilities and limitations of each project
- Guide and support junior designers by sharing your expertise in storytelling and performance-driven design, contributing to the growth of our creative talent
What you'll need to thrive:
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in motion design, with a robust portfolio that demonstrates advanced motion & communication design skills and a deep focus on branding
- Expert-level proficiency in Adobe After Effects and the Adobe Creative Suite, along with advanced skills in Maxon Cinema 4D and generative AI tools such as MidJourney, Firefly and Stable Diffusion
- Extensive experience in video editing, colour grading, and sound design, with a keen eye for timing and detail
- Demonstrated experience contributing to performance marketing campaigns that deliver impactful results
- Proven understanding of brand & communication strategies and ability to work effectively with established brand guidelines
- Exceptional ability to translate complex ideas into visually coherent narratives, combined with excellent communication and presentation skills
- A passion for staying ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, including familiarity with AI tools for image generation, audio processing, and video-to-text applications
- Excellent English skills (company language) to ensure clear and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders
- A degree in design, animation, communication design, or a related field
What you can look forward to:
As you grow, so do we.
This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Likeminded, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.
Moving to join us?
No problem. You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and company-wide events to build experiences together.
Life happens.
We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, 2 WFH days weekly, the chance to work remotely for 20 days abroad, free access to the Heynanny platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.
Enjoy your office days.
Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, choose from a variety of fitness options with our on-site gym, sports classes, and Urban Sports Club membership, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.
Thank you for considering a career at trivago! Our commitment to fostering an inclusive and enriching environment for all talents is at the heart of what we do. We understand that embarking on a new job opportunity is a blend of excitement and curiosity. Should any questions arise before you apply, feel free to reach out to us at joinus@trivago.com. Join us in our mission to make a positive impact on global travel, we look forward to your application!
