Senior Creative Engineer - Design, Contract

Critical Mass; Calgary; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital design is seeking a Contract Sr. Creative Engineer in Calgary. This role involves collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure high-quality digital artwork while adhering to strict brand and regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will have experience in creative automation and a strong attention to detail, contributing to a culture of security and quality.

Benefits

Maternity and parental leave extra days

Competitive benefits packages

Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days

Access to online services for families and new parents

Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups

Internal learning and development programs

Enterprise-wide employee discounts

Qualifications

• 3–5 years experience in a high output design environment.
• Hands-on experience with creative automation platforms.
• Expertise in high volume design workflows.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with creative teams to ensure compliance with brand standards.
• Oversee the use of creative production platforms for workflow efficiency.
• Mentor junior engineers and maintain quality control.

Skills

Attention to detail

Creative automation

Quality assurance

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design or related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Sketch

Job description

***Please note this is not a Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering role***

As a Contract Sr. Creative Engineer, you are a seasoned professional in digital design at high scale, thriving in a fast paced, high stakes, and highly sensitive environment. You will work with a multi discipline team including creatives, designers, and cross agency partners to ensure artwork is designed at scale to the strictest brand and regulatory standards. You possess a meticulous attention to detail and a strong sense of accountability for the quality, compliance, and confidentiality of every deliverable. You are highly skilled in leveraging automation and production platforms, and you proactively mentor others while contributing to a culture of security, accuracy, and process.

You will

• Collaborate with the Creative Team and partner agencies to bring ideas to life, ensuring strict adherence to best practices, brand standards, and client mandated security protocols.
• Oversee and support the use of industry leading creative production platforms, ensuring all workflows are compliant, efficient, and error free.
• Proactively bring forth ideas to improve team systems and processes for greater workflow efficiency, compliance, and quality control.
• Work with internal teams, account, creative, and external partners to ensure timely and accurate delivery of final files.
• Design to pixel perfection, translating key art into the various resizes and versions required by the digital media buy, always upholding the highest standards of detail and compliance.
• Become fully ingrained in the brand’s design templates, acting as a gatekeeper for brand guidelines and quality.
• Mentor junior Creative Engineers, fostering a culture of process discipline, attention to detail, and security first thinking.
• Understand technical limitations that may affect what can be achieved creatively in various media types and propose compliant, fit for platform solutions
• Build clean, compliant creative files to help manifest the development of an efficient working framework.
• Stay current on best practices within platforms like Celtra and other related digital production solutions, adapting quickly to process or regulatory changes.
• Create and maintain detailed production guides and workflow documentation to support team consistency and compliance.
• Ensure all deliverables are thoroughly reviewed for accuracy, regulatory compliance, and client specific requirements before release.

You have

• 3–5 years of experience working as a production designer or designer in a high output, high stakes, deadline driven environment (agency, production studio, or similar).
• Hands on experience, and interest, in creative automation and creative production platforms.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Familiarity with Figma/Sketch and Keynote/PowerPoint; able to leverage as needed.
• Demonstrated expertise in high volume design workflows and digital asset production. Experience collaborating with internal teams, partner agencies, and external vendors.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and commitment to quality assurance.
• Experience working with confidential or regulated content, understanding the critical importance of security, compliance, and accurate output.
• Experience in layout production, image optimization, static/animated advertising banners, email production, and visual guidelines.
• The mindset to be a mentor and a role model for security, compliance, and quality within the team.
  
  
  

What We Offer:

• Maternity and parental leave extra days
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. To do so, we expect our team to be in office 5days per week.

We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.comandus.greenhouse-mail.io . We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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