As an Associate Creative Engineer, you are skilled in digital design at high scale. You will work with an amazing team of creatives to make sure that artwork is designed at scale according to our client’s brand guidelines. You will take design briefs and key art from the account and creative team, ensuring conceptual creative ideas are designed at scale for digital delivery to market.
You are an ideal candidate if you come from an advertising agency or production design studio and have worked on a range of creative projects from marketing collateral, digital campaigns, print work, brand work, ads, and more.
This position requires full on-site attendance, five days per week, at the Barreal office (Heredia, Zona Franca Metropolitana).
You will
- Work with internal teams, account and creative to ensure continuity of delivery of final files within agreed timeframes and to high standards.
- Design to pixel-perfection and translate key art into the various resizes and versions required by the digital media buy.
- Become fully ingrained into the brand’s design templates and acting as gatekeeper of brand guidelines.
- Have an understanding of technical limitations that may affect what can be achieved creatively in various media types
- Build clean creative files to help manifest the development of a working framework
- Stay up to date on best digital practices for various platforms
- Help create a detailed template guide to clearly communicate the workings of the system
You have
- Experience working as a production designer or designer who thrives in high scale output, in an advertising agency, print or design studio.
- Experience withhigh-volume design
- Experienced with Adobe Creative Suite
- Working knowledge of motion design in Premiere/After Effects is an asset.
- Working knowledge of Figma/Sketch is an asset.
- Working knowledge of building and editing Keynote & PowerPoint decks
- A hands-on, execution driven attitude, turning vision into reality
- Strong attention to detail
- Problem solving mindset
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 12 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
- And more…
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 our Costa Rica office 3 days a week.
Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.
Critical Mass uses artificial intelligence in our recruitment process to enhance job postings, filter keywords during the review of prospective candidates, and, in some cases, transcribe interviews with our recruiters. Human review remains central to the process, and all hiring decisions are ultimately made by our team.
The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and 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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Skills Required
- Experience working as a production designer or designer in an advertising agency, print or design studio
- Experience with high-volume design / production at scale
- Experienced with Adobe Creative Suite
- Working knowledge of motion design in Premiere and After Effects
- Working knowledge of Figma or Sketch
- Working knowledge of building and editing Keynote and PowerPoint decks
- Hands-on, execution-driven attitude, turning vision into reality
- Strong attention to detail
- Problem solving mindset
- Full on-site attendance five days per week at the Barreal office (Heredia, Zona Franca Metropolitana)
What We Do
We’re Critical Mass. We are 2,000 inspired humans across 14 offices, setting the right path—not just the next one—for our clients, their customers, and our own colleagues. We work with the best, Apple, Adobe, BMW, Nike, Diageo, Airbnb, BNY and many more, to power connected ecosystems that make brands stand out by driving performance with data, technology, AI, creative and media. We’re a global marketing agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. We’re driven, uncompromising and we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Learn more at criticalmass.com.
