Art Director

Vish; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real salary

Full benefits

Job summary

Vish is a color management platform used by salons to run their business, where the look and feel of every asset must feel unmistakable and on-brand. You’ll own Vish’s visual language end-to-end, translating strategy into visuals that resonate with salon owners and audiences alike.

This hands-on role demands top-tier graphic design chops, collaboration with a videographer on shoots, and the ability to push ambitious ideas from concept to final delivery, often under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Five+ years designing and art directing, ideally agency-side or brand-led in-house.

Responsibilities

• Own the visual world of Vish by setting art direction and producing work across ads, social, web, decks, email, events, print.
• Guard and evolve a sharp visual system to move fast while maintaining brand integrity.
• Art direct photo and video shoots from concept to final frame with the videographer.

Skills

Art direction

Graphic design

Adobe Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Figma

AI-assisted design

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Job description

Most job posts ask an art director to "elevate the brand." We're going to ask you to make salon owners stop mid-scroll, screenshot the ad, and send it to the group chat. Slightly higher bar. Much more fun.

Vish is the color management platform professional salons run their business on. We take the color room, usually a salon's biggest money leak, and turn it into the most profitable corner of the shop. The brand already has a mouth on it: a real voice, a real point of view, the kind of work other companies quietly screenshot for "inspiration." What we're missing is the person who owns how all of it looks, and who actually sits down and builds it.

The Mission

Own the look of Vish end to end, and be the one who makes it, not just the one who calls it. You'll turn strategy and story into work that's unmistakably ours, everywhere a salon owner might run into us. Most days you're in the file designing, and that's exactly how we want it.

What you'll be doing

• Own the whole visual world of Vish by setting the art direction and then designing the work yourself: ads, social, web, decks, email, events, print, the lot
• Keep us unmistakable by building and guarding a visual system sharp enough to move fast without ever looking like we rushed
• Make the brand look as good as it performs by art directing photo and video shoots alongside our videographer, from concept to final frame
• Move salon owners, not just award juries by turning positioning into visuals that actually sell, then proving it and doing it again
• Raise the ceiling by putting AI tools to work on concepts that used to be too slow, too costly or too ambitious to pull off
• Set the pace by shipping sharp work this week instead of flawless work three revisions from now
• Grow the craft around you by guiding and levelling up the designers who join underneath you as the team scales

You're probably our person if

• You've got roughly five or more years designing and art directing, ideally some of it agency-side or in-house somewhere fast and brand-led
• You're a maker and a director, in that order. This is a hands-on role, your graphic design chops are genuinely excellent, and you'd be bored stiff in a job where you only point and approve
• Your portfolio has a point of view, not just a pile of assets. Show us brands you shaped and work you're a little smug about
• You live in Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and you're right at home in Figma
• You can art direct a shoot, a campaign and a landing page and make all three feel like the same brand
• You're endlessly curious about what makes culture move: design, fashion, beauty, film, pop culture, tech, the whole internet, and you feed it all back into the work
• You've already got AI doing your grunt work while you take the credit
• Hand you a vague brief and a tight deadline and you come back with something nobody asked for and everybody wants

You'll know you're killing it when

• People screenshot Vish work and can't quite explain why they saved it
• The brand looks like one confident thing everywhere it shows up, no matter who made the latest piece
• Ambitious ideas get greenlit because your track record earns the benefit of the doubt
• Work goes from blank page to live without anyone hovering over your shoulder

The fine print, minus the boredom

Full-time, based in Toronto. Real salary, real benefits, and something rarer than both: the chance to own the look of a brand while the paint's still wet, instead of babysitting one that dried years ago. And if you're an agency art director quietly tired of spreading yourself thin across a dozen clients who half-listen, this is the opposite. One brand. Yours. All in.