Front End Developer – Digital Arts

CodePen; Ontario; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the tech industry is seeking a Marketing Graphic Designer to assist the Marketing and Social Media team with graphic design tasks. This role involves collaboration on email, print, website designs and video production, requiring strong coding skills in HTML and CSS. The ideal candidate has an advanced degree in graphic design and over three years of professional experience in design.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of professional design experience.
• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in graphic and web design.
• Proficient in design software like Photoshop and Illustrator.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Marketing Manager to create effective email designs.
• Design print materials including sales brochures and mailers.
• Compile corporate and product family branding style guides.

Skills

Graphic Design

HTML

CSS

Video Production

Photoshop

Illustrator

Education

Advanced degree or equivalent experience in graphic and web design

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Sketch

Job description

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).
• 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.