Senior Designer, Contract

Critical Mass; Calgary; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Designer in Calgary focusing on visual communication. In this role, you'll design digital solutions and ensure user experience while collaborating with multiple teams. Ideal candidates possess a strong design portfolio and have 4-7+ years of experience in digital design, emphasizing creativity and detail.

Qualifications

• 4-7+ years of working experience in digital design and interactive.
• Strong digital design portfolio showcasing storytelling abilities.
• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design digital solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
• Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.

Skills

Creative thinking

Attention to detail

Digital design

Communication skills

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

Figma

Sketch

After Effects

Job description

The Critical Mass team creates applications which drive one of the world’s most trafficked websites. We play an active role helping our client connect their consumers globally through mobile, digital, and in-store experiences.

Think of all the ways that we explore and purchase products - direct from the source, other retail stores both on and offline. This team focuses on maintaining the branding and human-centered design thinking and experiences throughout indirect channel partners digital ecosystem and drives strategies that provide customers with a thoughtful and engaging experience that stays on-brand.

As a Senior Designer focused on visual communication, crafting creative concepts that translate visually is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team player—matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. In addition to creativity, keen attention to detail makes your work stellar.

This position is required to be onsite 5 days per week in our Calgary office.

You will:

• Design digital solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
• Rationalize solutions to project teams and clients.
• Balance creative with client business requirements.
• Design mood boards, storyboards, interactive page layouts, site grids and interface demos, photo retouches and enhancements, and animated GIFs.
• Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.
• Build and maintain a rapport with creative team, account managers, and project managers.
• Visualize and verbalize ideas to team and client.

You have:

• 4-7+ years of working experience in digital design and interactive.
• Strong digital design portfolio showcasing storytelling abilities through thoughtfully designed case studies.
• Developed and diverse communication skills.
• Ability to articulate creative ideas.
• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
• A solid working knowledge of the latest versions of Mac OS, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Figma, Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including file organization, and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use.
• An understanding of the strengths and limitations of After Effects, Sketch, Principle as well as information architecture and hierarchy.
• Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the Web.
• Illustration in both electronic and traditional media.

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. In an effort to do so, this role is required to work from an office 5 days a week.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.comand us.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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