Performance Ad Designer

Crimson Education; Toronto; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education consultancy in Toronto is seeking a Performance Ad Designer to create impactful ads across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate will have 1–3 years of graphic design experience, a strong portfolio, and proficiency in tools like Canva and Adobe Creative Suite. This is a unique opportunity to grow in a fast-paced environment focused on driving results and performance.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Individual training budget

Psychologist on staff

Insightful workshops

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of graphic design experience in a fast-paced marketing or creative team.
• A portfolio showcasing strong digital ad creative (paid social a must).
• A performance mindset with a focus on driving results.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize ad creative collaboratively with marketers.
• Produce and iterate high-performing assets quickly.
• Translate brand systems into effective ads.

Skills

Graphic design experience

Proficiency in Canva

Proficiency in Figma

Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite

Time management

Collaboration skills

Job description

Overview

Want to revolutionize the future of education and do meaningful work that transforms future generations’ lives?

About Crimson Education

Crimson Education is the world’s leading college admissions consultancy, with over 1,320 Ivy League offers and 2,140 to the US Top 15. We help ambitious students gain admission to the world’s top universities through expert-led guidance and proven, data-driven strategies. Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers.

What sets us apart is our unmatched scale and expertise. We have the largest team of Former Admissions Officers and Strategists globally. Every student is matched with a carefully-chosen team of admissions experts who zero in on different parts of their college application — from essays to extracurriculars — ensuring every detail is expertly executed.

We’ve raised over $89M USD from top-tier global investors, including Tiger Global, and have expanded into over 30 countries. We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal — read the article here.

The Role

We’re looking for a Performance Ad Designer to join our HQ Marketing team and help build a high-performing advertising engine in the USA. This role is all about ads, ads, ads — producing, testing, and iterating creative that fuels growth.

You’ll collaborate directly with performance marketers and the USA team to ship static and motion ads across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and beyond. Speed, precision, and performance are everything — you’ll use real-time data to optimize creative, adopt AI tools to move faster, and push the limits of what great performance design looks like.

What You’ll Do

Partner daily with Performance Marketing and USA Marketers to design and optimize ad creative.

Rapidly produce and iterate on high-performing assets across static, motion, carousel, landing pages, and social.

Translate brand systems into scroll-stopping ads that adapt to local market needs.

Proactively refine creative based on performance metrics (CTR, CVR, ROAS, CPL).

Leverage AI tools to streamline workflows, explore creative variations, and scale output.

Maintain a high-volume, fast-turnaround creative pipeline — always on-brand and performance-driven.

What Success Looks Like

Campaign assets delivered fast, on-brand, and driving measurable lifts in CTR, CVR, ROAS, and lead volume.

Performance marketers and country teams view you as a trusted, responsive creative partner.

You develop sharp creative intuition about what works across different markets and platforms.

You grow quickly in speed, skill, and performance impact — positioning yourself for senior design roles.

You’ll Need

1–3 years of graphic design experience in a fast-paced marketing or creative team.

A portfolio showcasing strong digital ad creative (paid social a must).

Proficiency in Canva, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite.

A performance mindset — you care about driving results, not just making things look good.

Comfort with AI creative tools (or strong willingness to adopt them).

Excellent time management, collaboration skills, and the ability to juggle multiple campaigns at speed.

Why work for Crimson?

• Rapidly growing start up, with a flexible working environment where you will be empowered to structure how you work
• Limitless development and exposure - our internal promotions / role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year
• 1000 individual training budget per year, we love to ‘Level Up’ (it’s one of our core values)!
• Psychologist on staff
• Insightful fireside chats and workshops to help support our high-performing and ambitious team
• Radical Candor is a feedback approach we live by
• We’re a global player with 28 markets (and growing) across the globe. Most roles have the option to work from one of our many offices or remotely!

If you're passionate about growing in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and want to work with cutting-edge technology, then we'd love to hear from you!

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