Senior Designer, Experience

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

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Designer to join their dynamic team in Calgary. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create original designs for product launches while ensuring high-quality execution in a fast-paced environment. Ideal applicants will bring 4-7 years of visual design experience and a passion for innovative solutions.

Benefits

Global maternity and parental leave

Competitive benefits packages

Vacation and wellness days

Early Dismissal Fridays

Internal learning programs

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• 4-7+ years of experience in visual design.
• High proficiency in design elements (typography, layout).
• Strong understanding of web development (HTML, CSS).

Responsibilities

• Create original designs aligning with project goals.
• Collaborate with teams to iterate on design layouts.
• Present design rationale and solutions clearly.

Skills

Visual Design

Collaboration

Communication

Prototyping

Judgment

Mentoring

Tools

Photoshop

Figma

Sketch

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.

This team is focused on bringing new product pages to life. You’ll work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to launch new product landing pages for our client’s site. These pages will showcase new product versions and/or updates. There is typically a major release every fall and some smaller updates through the year. If you are a pixel perfect visual designer with flawless execution, who loves the latest and greatest new ‘it product’, this is the role and team for you.

As a Senior Designer on this team, you are a user experience leaning visual designer. You’re comfortable being responsible for developing break-through marketing campaigns that incorporate all communications disciplines for new Product Launches. You’ll working closely and collaboratively with both the creative and tech disciplines to create considered and elegant design solution for our client’s homepage and other, additional platforms. You understand brand principles and style guideline and you appreciate an exceptional systematic design rational.

You will:

• Create original designs that align to project goals and overall creative direction, fluid templates and our client high standards.
• Collaborate with Art Directors, ACDs, and the larger project team to explore concepts and iterate on design layouts. Anticipate and solve for potential design challenges, as well as existing conditions.
• Prepare for creative reviews by outputting optimized files and presentation materials.
• Guide ideas to meet both creative and business goals within the project scope.
• Present persuasively and clearly articulate design rationale for project creative solutions.
• Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations, and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.
• Review final deliverables with an exacting eye, ensuring that layout, images, and typography are flawless.
• Continually seek opportunities to refine design thinking and improve workflows.

You have:

• 4-7+ years of experience specializing in visual design for the web, mobile and/or app design.
• High proficiency in the formal elements of design, including typography, layout, balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, and unity.
• Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced, creative workplace and to deliver quality design at a high volume in a tight timeframe.
• Photoshop expertise, including intelligently organizing files for design iteration, setting up files for web production, and adhering to graphic design standards.
• Reliable judgment to see when work may be “off track” and initiative to collaborate with others to find solutions.
• Passion for nurturing relationships, mentoring, and rallying teams to align around a vision.
• Ability to articulate ideas and be clearly understood by creative, project management and development staff, both in verbal and in written format.
• Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences.
• Prototyping ability to convey preferred states, motion, and/or behaviors for interactive concepts.
• Strong understanding of web development, including HTML, CSS, iOS, and other technologies.
• Figma, Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including file organization, and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use.

What We Offer:

• Global maternity and parental leave
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, wellness days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
• 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. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 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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