Senior Production Designer (temporary)

The Senior Production Designer independently creates production design solutions like image assets, display and social media banner resizes, digital layout refreshments and digital templates, also provides supervision and oversight during the process and ensures that these solutions meet business requirements and goals. Reporting to the Production Design Lead, the Senior Production Designer must work with and sometimes provide oversight to a team of production specialists.

You will:

• Produce and helps supervise the production of high-end deliverables that meet client and industry standards. These deliverables include (but are not limited to) layout skinning, layout production, red lines, image asset creation, image optimization, image resizes & cropping, photoretouching & photomontage, animated and static online advertising banners emails creation, decks and visual guidelines creation.
• Work closely with development Seniors and Leads to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
• Help the Production Design Lead to provide reliable quality assurance on production design deliverables.
• Actively participates in communications with stakeholders, partners, clients and offshore teams. This communication includes calls, meetings, IM and e-mail. Can present work during client presentations.
• Collaborate in the success of a production scope, partnering with Producers and Leads to make sure deadlines are met on schedule and on budget. Anticipates issues and flags situations that might impact quality or delivery success.
• Collaborate with other discipline Seniors to improve workflows and frameworks to ensure project success with client and user satisfaction.
• Participate in recruiting and hiring department team members, interviewing candidates and collaborating with HR.
• Participates in building and maintaining a rapport with clients, creative partners on client side, other partners agencies and vendors.
• Contributes to the innovative development of the department.
• Stay current with the latest design trends, systems, tools, technologies and platforms, while fostering excellence, learning and a collaborative environment among team members.

You have:

• Advanced English Proficiency (B2+ reading, writing, and conversation)
• 4+ yrs. Experience in advertising agencies, digital agencies, design agencies, and/or startups.
• Experience supervising and participating in teams working on production design projects such as site/app maintenance, digital marketing, digital animation and print, preferably for international clients and global brands.
• Experience with campaign development and digital products execution.
• Experience creating assets for digital products.
• Experience designing and implementing production design processes and standards with a strategic approach.
• Solid understanding of digital marketing, online advertising and business strategy concepts.
• Solid understanding of interactivity and animation principles and best practices.
• Solid understanding of design principles, trends, systems.
• Extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Extensive knowledge of Keynote, PowerPoint
• Knowledge of After Effects and Adobe Animate.
• Strong knowledge of productivity tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook),
• Knowledge of remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, Drive, Box, Paper, Evernote) and workflow management tools (Jira, Trello, Asana, Basecamp).
• Basic knowledge of UI design tools (Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch).
• Basic knowledge of HTML5 animation principles.
• Familiar with CMS and frameworks such as: Bootstrap, Foundation, Wordpress, AEM.
• Familiar with OA platforms such as: Celtra, Sizmek, DoubleClick, Flash Talking.
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Design Advertising Design or related field or equivalent experience in advertising and/or digital agencies or startups is a plus.

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.