Front End Developer – Digital Arts

CodePen; Ontario; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative start-up is seeking a Marketing Graphic Designer to enhance their brand presence through compelling graphic assets. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate with marketing and design teams to create engaging email designs, print materials, and website layouts. Your expertise in graphic design, video production, and coding will be essential in delivering high-quality assets that align with brand standards. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to exciting product launches and marketing campaigns in a creative and supportive environment, where your skills can truly shine.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in graphic and web design.
• 3 or more years of professional design experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Marketing Manager on email designs for campaigns.
• Design print materials and work closely on website design.

Skills

Graphic Design

Video Production

HTML

CSS

Photoshop

Illustrator

Cross-browser Testing

Invision

Email Design

Education

Advanced degree in Graphic and Web Design

3+ years of professional design experience

Tools

Sketch

SCSS

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

• 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 e-mail 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.
• Work closely with the CMO and in-house design team to compile the corporate and product family branding style guides (icons, color palettes, etc).
• 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 a plus.
• Experience in video production 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.