Brand and Creative Manager

Assent; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness benefits

Vacation time & life leave days

Competitive base salary + bonus

Flexible work options

Professional development days

Job summary

Assent is seeking a Brand & Creative Manager to own the company’s visual identity and lead a brand refresh across design, motion, and video. This hands-on role requires making strong creative decisions, shipping polished work quickly, and shaping templates and guidelines for the team.

You will collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure consistent branding, while pushing creative processes forward with AI-powered tools.

Qualifications

• About 5 years of experience in graphic design with hands-on video editing and motion graphics (agency or in‑house, ideally B2B/SaaS).
• Strong portfolio spanning design, infographics, digital ads and video/motion work, including AI‑assisted creative.
• Confident presenting creative decisions to non-designers and leadership.
• Genuine enthusiasm for brand ownership and evolution, not just following a style guide.
• Comfort with generative AI tools as part of daily creative process and curiosity to test new ones.

Responsibilities

• Own visual identity across design, motion, and video as we roll out a brand refresh.
• Design high‑impact assets: graphics, infographics, digital ads, presentations, and campaign creative.
• Edit and produce video and motion graphics content for social clips, sales enablement videos, and explainers.
• Build and maintain templates and educate teams on usage; refresh templates as needs evolve.
• Use generative AI tools to speed production, test directions, and scale output without quality loss.
• Present and defend creative decisions to stakeholders and leadership, explaining strategy behind visuals.

Skills

Graphic design

Video editing

Motion graphics

AI-assisted creative

Branding

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Photoshop

Illustrator

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Figma

Adobe Firefly

Monday.com

Job description

Assent is the manufacturing industry's leading Product Intelligence Network, and we're growing fast. We recently acquired iPoint, expanding our reach in automotive and across Europe, and we're repositioning our brand to match where the business is headed.

We're looking for a Brand & Creative Manager to own that shift. This isn't about executing against a style guide. It's about shaping the visual identity of a company in the middle of real momentum. This is a hands‑on creative lead role. You think like a designer, edit like a producer, and talk about brand like it's personal. You'll set the visual standard for the company and bring it to life, from campaign graphics to short‑form video. And you'll do it while pushing our creative process forward with AI‑powered tools.

This isn't a role for someone who waits for a brief. We want a builder. Someone who can take a rough idea, make strong creative decisions, and explain the why behind them with confidence. Someone who can ship polished work fast, in a company that's moving quickly on every front.

What You'll Do

• Own our visual identity across design, motion, and video as we roll out a company‑wide brand refresh.
• Design high‑impact assets, including graphics, infographics, digital ads, presentations, and campaign creative that's both on‑brand and performance‑driven.
• Edit and produce video and motion graphics content. Think social clips, sales enablement videos, and simple animated explainers.
• Build and maintain templates for Assentees to use, and enable them on how to use them, and continuously updating/refreshing the templates as needs evolve and performance feedback requires
• Use generative AI tools (like Adobe Firefly, Canva, Envato, Claude and others) to speed up production, test new creative directions, and scale output without sacrificing quality.
• Present and defend your creative decisions to stakeholders and leadership. You can explain the strategy behind your work, not just the aesthetics.
• Partner with Marketing, Sales and Customer Success to make sure every touchpoint reflects a consistent, evolving brand.
• Build and maintain our brand guidelines and visual standards. Be the go‑to person for how the brand should look, sound, and feel.
• Bring a test‑and‑learn mindset. Experiment with new formats and tools, track what performs, and keep iterating.
• Manage your own workload and priorities in a fast‑paced environment with competing deadlines.

What You Bring

• About 5 years of experience in graphic design, with hands‑on video editing and motion graphics skills. Agency or in‑house, ideally B2B/SaaS.
• A strong portfolio that spans design (graphics, infographics, digital ads) and video/motion work, including AI‑assisted creative.
• Confidence presenting your creative decisions. You can explain your rationale clearly to non‑designers and leadership alike.
• Genuine enthusiasm for brand. You want to own it, protect it, and evolve it, not just follow a style guide.
• Comfort with generative AI tools as part of your everyday creative process, plus curiosity to keep testing new ones.
• Proficiency with tools like Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects), Figma, and Adobe Firefly, as well as project management tools like Monday.com.
• A fast‑paced, fun, adaptable working style. You're energized by a busy, ever‑changing environment, not overwhelmed by it.
• Based in Canada, with a preference for candidates in the Ottawa area.

Bonus Points If You

• Have led or contributed to a brand refresh, or built a visual system from the ground up.
• Have a point of view on where AI and creative production are headed.
• Have experience mentoring or directing other designers or freelancers.
• Have experience working with a DAM solution to store work and final assets.

Want to shape a brand from the ground up, not just follow the guidelines? Let's talk.

Life at Assent

• Wellness: We believe that you and your family's well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.
• Financial Benefits: It's not all about the money - well, it's a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.
• Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.
• Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.
• At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

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