Senior Designer - 6 month FTC
- Toronto, ON
- 60.000-70.000 $ par an
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
Toronto, hybridDEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world's most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We're 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.This is a 6 month fixed term employee contract.This posting reflects an existing vacancy.JOB PURPOSEThis role is part of our Global Studios team. We create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products and campaigns at scale and speed. Our specialty is hyper-personalised, digital communications that change perceptions, shape new behaviours, and shift market share for our clients.As a Senior Designer, you will work on a broad range of small and large projects across some of the largest, well-recognized brands in the world.Our Senior Designers are required to understand, organize, and motivate people to achieve extraordinary things: they're able to guide thinking and behaviour in others and take counsel from within to thrive in a dynamic environment. Our Senior Designers are masters of their craft, demonstrate good judgement and emotional intelligence, and inspire self-development.WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Overseeing the work of and mentoring other designers
- Delivering constructive feedback
- Coach your team members and help them to realize areas of development
- Working on a brief from start to finish
- AI prompting and image generation
- Designing responsive, customer-centric emails (and more!)
- Development, maintenance, and regular optimization of global Figma libraries
- Managing and mentoring more junior members of the team
- Applying creativity to adhoc projects
- Always striving to create work that contributes to the client's business goals
- Researching competitors and staying current with design and marketing trends
- Taking accountability for flawless design output
- Ability to work cross-departmentally with developers, copywriters, etc.
- Contributing innovative ideas at creative review meetings
- Protecting brand integrity and guardianship
- Drive the delivery of work on time and to the highest standard by understanding of your team's capabilities
- 3-5 years of digital design experience
- You are well-versed in working in an agency context and have relevant experience covering brand, direct, and above-the-line creative work
- Keen to build client relations and confidently pitch ideas to them
- Good eye for layout, skilled in typesetting and retouching.
- Proficient using digital design software (i.e. Figma, Adobe CS)
- Experience with
- High-level understanding of motion design principles
- A strategic designer who always takes a customer-first approach, ensuring the user journey is an excellent end-to-end experience
- A great teammate who supports their colleagues and doesn't act as an individual
- Very organised with attention to detail
- A great source for up-to-the-minute creative knowledge and digital design trends
- Works with grit and determination in the face of demanding deadlines
- Has a desire to embrace new skills and challenges
- A flexible, hybrid working policy.
- An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies.
- Mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.
- 15 days paid holiday annually (plus Public Holidays).
- Refreshments are provided in the office all week.
- Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.
- Social and Cultural Events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
- Inspirational Talks, bringing the outside in with regular guest speakers and events.
- Learning and Development, supporting your growth with continuous opportunities to learn and advance.
- Buddy Programme: You will be paired with a 'Buddy' to help you through your first weeks' at DEPT®.
- A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified
- The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.