As an Associate Designer, you are excited to contribute to the development of creative concepts that translate visually. You are an original thinker and a team player matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. Most importantly, you are driven by a passion for design. You will have the opportunity to try the digital agency world to see if it's for you! Developing talent is part of our DNA. This junior talent program is a fast-track to launch your career with regular learning opportunities, mentorship and real client work.
You Will:
- Work with a mentor to design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives
- Create and update digital assets for websites, product pages, and other online channels.
- Support ongoing website maintenance and content updates.
- Design layouts, banners, graphics, and visual elements that align with brand guidelines.
- Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.
- Build and maintain a team rapport with entire multidisciplinary project team.
You Have:
- Strong design portfolio that demonstrates solid visual, interactive and graphic design skills.
- Comfortability brainstorming and contributing to bigger ideas
- Ability to articulate creative ideas
- Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail
- Understanding of information architecture and hierarchy
- Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the web
- Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people
Nice-to-haves:
- Post-secondary education, certification, or experience in a related field preferred
- Experience using standard design tools, such as Figma, PhotoShop, Adobe XD, or Sketch
- Experience with digital design, including UX
- Motion graphics experience for the Web and video
What We Offer:
- Global maternity and parental leave
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, personal/sick 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)
- 12 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
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.
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
- Strong design portfolio demonstrating visual, interactive and graphic design skills.
- Comfort brainstorming and contributing to larger ideas.
- Ability to articulate creative ideas.
- Quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail.
- Understanding of information architecture and hierarchy.
- Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the web.
- Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creatives.
- Post-secondary education, certification, or experience in a related field.
- Experience using standard design tools such as Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, or Sketch.
- Experience with digital design, including UX.
- Motion graphics experience for the web and video.
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.
