Art Director

Shopify; Toronto; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative start-up is seeking a Marketing Graphic Designer to join its dynamic team. In this role, you'll be responsible for creating visually appealing design assets for various marketing channels, including email, ads, and websites. You'll collaborate closely with marketing and design teams to ensure all materials align with brand requirements. The ideal candidate will have strong graphic design skills, experience in video production, and a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to exciting projects and grow your design expertise in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional design experience required.
• Proficient in graphic design tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the marketing team to create effective email designs.
• Design print materials and corporate branding assets.
• Develop design assets for new product launches.

Skills

Graphic Design

Video Production

HTML

CSS

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Invision

Email Marketing Design

Education

Advanced degree in Graphic Design

3+ years of professional design experience

Tools

Sketch

Job description

Company Description

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Job Description

As Marketing Graphic Designer, your primary responsibility is to assist the Marketing and Social Media team with a variety of graphic design tasks ranging from email, ads, print, and website design. You will be responsible to take a set of instructions, or a stated problem, and produce clean, modern design assets that are within the brand requirements of our company and our products. As part of the process, this person will collaborate with members of the marketing, design and product teams to gain a clear understanding of the campaign expectations, target audience, and product positioning.

The right candidate will possess video production and editing skills. You will work with the marketing and social media team in the video production cycle from pre-production planning through post-production editing (video training available).

For website design, a basic level of coding is required in order to turn designs into live websites.

Key Objectives

• Produce assets that are within the brand requirements of our company and our products.

Primary Areas of Accountability

• Collaborate with the Marketing Manager to deliver effective, direct response email designs for marketing campaigns.
• Work with stakeholders from sales and marketing to design print materials, including sales brochures and mailers.
• Work closely with the CMO and in-house design team, taking direction on our new website design for corporate and product sites, including writing HTML and CSS.
• Compile the corporate and product family branding style guides (icons, color palettes, etc.) with the CMO and in-house design team.
• Develop design assets for new product launches, including screenshots and icons for app store listings.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to write code – HTML & CSS (SCSS flavor of SASS preferred when writing CSS).
• Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator; bonus points for familiarity with Sketch (Sketch is our preferred concepting tool).
• Cross-browser and platform testing as standard practice.
• Experience using Invision is a plus.
• Experience in video production is a plus or, at a minimum, a willingness to learn.

Education + Experience

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in graphic and web design.
• 3 or more years of professional design experience.
• Direct response email experience.
• Ecommerce website design experience.