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Job description
Elli posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Berlin: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
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Description provided by Elli
Motion Designer within the Brand Communications team in the Marketing department, creating engaging visual content across digital and live channels. Responsibilities included motion graphics, animation, illustration, and graphic design for marketing campaigns, websites, social media, presentations, and events. Supported video production from concept development and storyboarding through filming, editing, color grading, and post-production. Created photography and video content for product launches, corporate events, and brand campaigns, while applying a strong understanding of visual storytelling, composition, branding, and design principles across all creative work.
Education Requirements
Current student in visual/motion design/photography/videography.
Please attach a copy of your portfolio.
Technical Knowledge & Softskills
Experience with camera (still and video), experience in image and video editing, experience in motion design.
Experience across Adobe creative suite and Figma.
Open and patient, able to work with people in photo/video shooting situations.
Working student essentials
What this Design working student role in Berlin means for you: the weekly-hours rules, the social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
Studying in Germany
