Company Day — Vlada Dzhanda
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Company Day
Event Visual Direction

SoftServe photo frame on a blue draped stage, Company Day 2025
Services- Visual rollout
- Agency coordination
- Quality control
- Final approval
Industries- Corporate event
- Employer brand
ClientSoftServe
global concept

SoftServe's global birthday event, rolled out across 12 Ukrainian cities and 5 outdoor locations — one visual language kept intact across several external agencies.

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01 · Overview

A global event needs one face everywhere.

Company Day is SoftServe's global birthday celebration — every year, teams in every location the company has offices gather to mark it together. Each year has its own idea; in 2025 it was one line: You shape the moment.

Company Day 2025 marked the company's 32nd birthday. My role was to implement this at the Ukrainian location: 12 cities, 5 outdoor locations — every location reading as the same celebration.

“You shape the moment” stand with the softserve logo, dancers in the background
Indoor locationCompany Day 2025
02 · The context

The concept was set globally

The hard part is everything that happens after a concept exists: it has to land in many very different places at once — different cities, different formats, different teams building it.

Each handoff is a chance for the brand to drift. In collaboration with several external agencies that provide design and decoration services across the country, the real problem wasn't a weak concept.

The risk was a strong idea falling apart in execution.

03 · The challenge

How do you keep one visual language intact across 12 cities, 5 outdoor locations, and several external agencies — without a single team touching every layout?

Not the task

This wasn't a design-from-scratch task.

The task

Consistency at scale: hold the integrity of a system that many hands would build, in parallel, under event deadlines.

04 · My role

I owned the visual rollout and design support for Company Day in Ukraine.

The concept came from the global team; keeping it whole across the country was mine.

In short: I was the point that kept 12 cities speaking one language.

Key visual materials

Developing the layouts the locations and agencies worked from.

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Briefing & coordination

Briefing and managing the external agencies producing design and decoration.

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Quality control

Checking every output against the brand guidelines.

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Final approvalBefore production

Signing off key layouts before production.

05 · How I worked

One system, many hands

Holding a brand together at scale is a method, not a wish. The point wasn't to design every piece myself. It was to make sure that whoever did — in Kyiv or in an outdoor build five cities away — produced something that still read as one Company Day.

1BriefBrief each location and agency clearly.
2BuildLet each team build.
3CheckCheck every output against the system.
4ApproveApprove, or send back.

Consistency came from the process, not from one pair of hands.

06 · Across the country

Each distinct in place, identical in brand

The clearest proof is the ground itself: 12 cities, 5 outdoor locations. Alongside the locations, the printed and on-site materials the agencies produced all carried the same You shape the moment language — the consistency I was there to protect.

“You shape the moment” photo wall, outdoor location Guest taking a selfie at the “You shape the moment” telephone wall “Let's shape the story” talk stage Giant softserve block tower Outdoor talk under a white tent
Superhumans Zone sign at the outdoor location
Company Day across 12 Ukrainian cities · 5 outdoor locations
“I am your troubleshooter” volunteer T-shirts
Branded “You shape the moment” cans
“Пледи для пікніка” sign
Wayfinding signpost at the outdoor location
Printed & on-site materialsProduced by agencies, held to the brand system I managed
07 · Result

The event ran across every planned location, on time and on brand.

EVP

Highest EVP in three years

Event-level result — reflects the celebration as a whole,
not design alone.
Guest spinning the SoftServe prize wheel at an outdoor Company Day location
08 · Closing

Company Day didn't need a new idea — it needed someone to make sure the right one survived contact with twelve cities and several agencies. That's the quieter craft: not inventing the system, but protecting it everywhere it goes.

One celebration.
Twelve cities.
One language.

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