Art Director

Benevity; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 99,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Benevity is redefining how brands do good by providing technology for social action. This role leads the brand design team, ensuring a modern visual identity, design systems, and high-quality creative across channels.

With 8+ years in brand design and 3+ years in leadership for B2B brands, you will mentor designers, shape campaigns, and drive unified brand experiences across digital and print landscapes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of brand design experience with at least 3 years in creative leadership for B2B brands.
• Strong portfolio across digital, print, and campaigns.
• Excellent typography, color, layout, and visual hierarchy skills.
• Able to articulate design decisions to stakeholders.
• Proficiency with modern design tools and motion assets.
• Strong collaboration and feedback skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain Benevity's visual identity system across platforms.
• Strengthen the brand design system and guidelines for teams.
• Design assets with attention to typography, color, composition, and motion.
• Audit and elevate existing brand assets and campaigns.
• Lead brainstorms for major marketing programs and product launches.
• Mentor and provide constructive feedback to raise team quality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure a unified brand experience.
• Direct creative for video, motion content, and web experiences.
• Champion AI-powered design tools within the team.
• Lead intake, prioritization, and capacity planning for the creative team.

Skills

Brand design

Creative leadership

Visual storytelling

Typography

Color theory

Motion design

Collaboration

Feedback

Brand guidelines

Tools

Asana

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Meet Benevity

Benevity is the way the world does good, providing companies (and their employees) with technology to take social action on the issues they care about. Through giving, volunteering, grantmaking, employee resource groups and micro-actions, we help most of the Fortune 100 brands build better cultures and use their power for good. We’re also one of the first B Corporations in Canada, meaning we’re as committed to purpose as we are to profits. We have people working all over the world, including Canada, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and more!

What You’ll Do

• Own and maintain our visual identity system to ensure it stays modern, accessible, and consistent across all platforms
• Maintain and strengthen the brand design system and guidelines so teams can easily produce high-quality work
• Design and produce creative assets with a sharp eye for typography, color, composition, and motion
• Audit and refine existing brand assets and campaigns to elevate them to a higher visual standard
• Lead brainstorms and concept development for major marketing programs, product launches, and thought leadership content
• Provide constructive creative feedback and mentorship to share techniques and raise the quality bar across the team
• Partner with cross-functional teams to bring strong visual thinking to briefs and support a unified brand experience
• Direct creative for video, motion content, and web experiences to ensure alignment with our brand standards
• Champion the smart and effective use of AI-powered design tools within the creative team
• Lead the creative team's intake process, project prioritization, and capacity planning to ensure sustainable workloads

What You’ll Bring

• 8 or more years of experience in brand design with at least 3 years of creative leadership experience for B2B brands
• A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional design execution across digital, print, and campaign work
• An obsessive and well-trained eye for typography, color, layout, and visual hierarchy
• Exceptional visual storytelling skills and the ability to articulate design decisions clearly to stakeholders
• Expert-level proficiency in modern and evolving digital design tools
• The versatility to move fluidly between high-impact hero assets and quick-turn creative work
• A highly collaborative mindset with comfort giving and receiving direct and constructive creative feedback
• Strong organizational skills to manage timelines, track deliverables, and balance capacity in project management tools like Asana

Discover your purpose at work

We’re not employees, we’re Benevity-ites. From all locations, backgrounds and walks of life, who deserve more …

Innovative work. Growth opportunities. Caring co-workers. And a chance to do work that fills us with a sense of purpose.

If the idea of working on tech that helps people do good in the world lights you up ... If you want a career where you’re valued for who you are and challenged to see who you can become …

It’s time to join Benevity. We’re so excited to meet you.

Where We Work

At Benevity, we embrace a flexible hybrid approach to where we work that empowers our people in a way that supports great work, strong relationships, and personal well-being. For those located near one of our offices, while there’s no set requirement for in-office time, we do value the moments when coming together in person helps us build connection and collaboration.

Whether it’s for onboarding, project work, or a chance to align and bond as a team, we trust our people to make thoughtful decisions about when showing up in person matters most.

Join a Company Where DEIB Isn’t a Buzzword

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are part of Benevity’s DNA. You’ll see the impact of our massive investment in DEIB daily — from our well-supported employee resources groups to the exceptional diversity on our leadership and tech teams.

We know that diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and passions are what move our business and our people forward, so we're committed to creating a culture of belonging with equal opportunities for everyone to shine.

That starts with a fair and accessible hiring process. If you want to feel seen, heard and celebrated, you belong at Benevity.

Candidates with disabilities who may require accommodations throughout the hiring or assessment process are encouraged to reach out to [e-mail].

Compensation Range: CA$98,600 - CA$135,520