Visual Content Creator (60-80%, limited to 1 year)

About the job

Electricity moves our lives. And we move electricity. Every day, we commit ourselves to the network-side supply security in Switzerland. On behalf of Switzerland and in cooperation with international partners, our employees ensure a powerful and reliable electricity grid.

We are looking for a dedicated and ambitious reinforcement for our headquarters in Aarau as soon as possible in the position of

Visual Content Creator (60-80%, limited to 1 year) - 1532

Ensuring electricity in Switzerland

Graphic wizard, talent for visual storytelling, or visual experience designer? As a Visual Content Creator at Swissgrid, you will significantly shape the visual appearance of the national grid company. You bring our complex topics around electricity, grid, and energy transition into graphics and visual communication media – precise, emotional, and cross-channel.

In this versatile role, you turn our topics into real eye-catchers: You are responsible for the ideation and graphic design of our topics. Your mission:

• You conceptualize and design visual content such as infographics for online, video, animation, and print
• You initiate knowledge transfer within the team and help colleagues expand their skills through targeted training
• You ensure that our corporate design is correctly applied across all channels
• You coordinate external agencies, photographers, and creative partners from briefing to approval
• You advise and support colleagues on all communicative and design-related matters

That’s how you make a difference

You speak fluent CMYK, think in vectors, and are not a prompt tourist? Perfect: For this position, we are looking for you, an inspired and inspiring personality with a talent for visual storytelling, a structured and quality-conscious working style, and a high competence in designing our topics. You bring the following qualities:

• Proven, several years of experience in designing graphics, animations, and ideally moving images
• Experience with AI tools for visual design
• Excellent knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects)
• Conceptual thinking and the ability to visually implement creative solutions
• A keen sense for typography, color, layout, and current design trends
• Confident handling of deadlines, specifications, and high-quality standards
• Strong communication skills and understanding of the needs of internal and external stakeholders
• Willingness to learn new media formats, technologies, and design approaches

With these qualities, you contribute your expertise to our communication team, develop our appearance further, and teach us how to visually convey complex content. You not only have graphic expertise but also skills in moving images and visual communication with AI? Then we want to hear and see more from you!

How we inspire you

As part of the communication team, you commit every day to our contribution to Switzerland’s electricity supply security. With us, you directly participate in the greatest transformation in the history of the electricity system. We offer you diverse and exciting tasks in a company unique to Switzerland and a modern working environment in close proximity to the Aarau train station. In addition, you benefit from the following perks:

• Flexible working hours (42 hours per week), including home office options
• About 25 working days of vacation plus company holidays between Christmas and New Year
• Progressive social benefits and an attractive pension fund
• Opportunities for professional development
• Financial and/or time support for internal or external training
• Competitive salary and reward for good performance

About us

The National and International Relations team is responsible for communication and public affairs at Swissgrid. In a multidisciplinary team, we shape and further develop Swissgrid’s appearance. Our communication is targeted at our stakeholders. In the future, we want to inspire them more with visual communication. Our experts for content (video, text, graphics), topics, channels, and publishing look forward to reinforcement in visual communication for skill development within the team as well as a doer for a strong visual presence.