Head of Marketing Creative & AI-Driven Production

AfterShip; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AfterShip in Toronto/Vancouver is hiring a people leader to build, lead, and reinvent our Marketing Creative team. You'll hire, develop, and inspire designers while evolving AfterShip's brand system and directing creative across campaigns, product launches, and digital experiences.

This is a builder role with a focus on AI-powered production and scalable processes. This role requires exceptional cross-functional leadership, aligning creative strategy with business priorities and partnering with

Qualifications

• Leadership of multidisciplinary teams
• Brand identity development
• Creative direction across channels
• Experience with AI-assisted creative workflows
• Cross-functional collaboration with marketing, product, and growth teams

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow a high-performing, distributed team of designers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Set the creative vision for AfterShip's brand system, partnering closely with the VP, Marketing to evolve our identity as the company grows.
• Own creative direction across every marketing surface—including paid campaigns, product launches, sales enablement, lifecycle marketing, social, email, and AfterShip.com—ensuring consistently high creative standards.
• Build and scale an AI-powered creative production engine that combines cloud-based workflows, automation, and design systems to enable high-volume, high-quality creative output.
• Create systems that empower non-designers to self-serve routine creative needs, allowing your team to focus on high-impact strategic work.
• Lead creative planning and prioritization across Product Marketing, Growth, Partnerships, and other cross-functional teams to ensure the highest-impact work ships quickly.
• Manage external freelancers and creative agencies, providing clear direction, maintaining quality standards, and scaling capacity when needed.
• Continuously improve creative operations, processes, and team effectiveness to help AfterShip scale efficiently

Job description

AfterShip in Toronto/Vancouver is hiring a people leader to build, lead, and reinvent our Marketing Creative team. You'll hire, develop, and inspire designers while evolving AfterShip's brand system and directing creative across campaigns, product launches, and digital experiences.

This is a builder role with a focus on AI-powered production and scalable processes. This role requires exceptional cross-functional leadership, aligning creative strategy with business priorities and partnering with