Senior Designer

The Senior Designer is a master of her/his design craft, and is responsible for the execution of complex visual design deliverables and under the Design Lead supervision, leads the successful implementation of design solutions for marketing/communication campaigns and digital experiences that benefit people and clients. By creating design deliverables and solutions that align strategic direction and user needs, providing support and guidance to other team members, having passion for design and keeping high standards, the Senior Designer plays a key role on project success, client satisfaction and strengthening our creative culture.

You will: 

• Designs solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives in a highly collaborative environment.
• Creates storyboards, mood-boards, initial visual concepts, design layouts, functional design solutions, site grids and UI demos to lead design project development.
• Leads visual design projects with Design Lead supervision in the following areas: Print, Marketing Campaign, Social Media, Motion and Illustration.
• Understands, analyses, and responds to client briefs and requests.
• Works closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
• Provides reliable quality assurance on all creative deliverables. Anticipates issues and flags situations that might impact quality or delivery success.
• Actively participates in calls and client meetings, handles IM and e-mail communication. Presents work during client presentations.
• Actively participates in strategic brainstorming, design thinking and collaboration sessions, and creative brief development.
• Thinks creatively and justifies concepts to clients and team members.
• Understands and applies the design thinking cycle to projects when is appropriate.
• Balances strategic development with client objectives.

• Builds and maintains a rapport with department team members, project managers and other disciplines key team members.
• Stays up to date with recent design trends and new technologies.
• Drives design inspiration and learning among team members.

You have: 

• 4+ yrs. experience in advertising agencies, digital agencies, design agencies, and/or startups.
• Strong design portfolio including pieces for international clients.
• Experience in at least 3 of these areas: print, visual design, digital marketing, social media, illustration and motion areas, preferably for international clients and global brands.
• Solid understanding of interactivity and animation principles and best practices.
• Solid understanding of visual design principles, trends, systems, and systems.
• Solid understanding of UX principles, trends and theory.
• Understanding of digital marketing, online advertising and business strategy concepts.
• Experience creating user interfaces for digital products.
• Extensive knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Figma.
• Solid knowledge of Keynote, PowerPoint, After Effects.
• Knowledge of Adobe Animate, HTML5 animation, Zeplin, Abstract, Principle.
• Knowledge of productivity tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, Drive, Box, Paper, Evernote) and workflow management tools (Jira, Trello, Asana, Basecamp).
• Knowledge of design systems frameworks such as Material Design and Human Interface Guidelines.
• Understanding of CMS and frameworks such as: Bootstrap, Foundation, Wordpress, AEM or any others.
• Comfortable on the iOS environment.

What We Offer:

• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• End of year closure days (not deducted form vacation balance)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• And more…

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.  If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.