We’re looking for a Creative Engineer — a creative problem solver with a strong design foundation and a systems-driven mindset. This role sits at the intersection of design, technology, and automation. You’ll help bring client brands to life within dynamic creative templates, using our in-house tools to create scalable systems that adapt to strategy and performance data.
You Will:
- Translate brand guidelines and static designs into dynamic, on-brand template systems.
- Use our custom Figma and After Effects plugins to build, animate, and refine automated creative templates.
- Create mock-ups and visual examples to present creative systems and dynamic concepts to clients.
- Collaborate with the product team to test, feedback, and improve our internal tools and automation workflows.
- Explore and contribute to the development of new AI-based creative solutions.
- Create and maintain detailed Template Guides for each project, documenting specifications, logic, and creative parameters.
- Prepare, crop, and optimise assets for use within templates.
- Partner with strategists and developers to ensure creative templates align with campaign logic and data-driven objectives.
- Maintain exceptional organisation, quality, and attention to detail across all builds.
- Contribute to brand guideline development and forward-thinking visual solutions.
You’ll Thrive in This Role If You...
- Have a strong background in visual or motion design and enjoy exploring how creativity meets technology.
- Are curious about automation, creative systems, and AI.
- Enjoy structured problem solving and logical thinking alongside hands-on creative work.
- Are proactive and confident in sharing ideas for how we can improve tools or workflows.
- Take pride in producing clear, precise documentation and beautifully structured templates.
- Like working collaboratively with designers, developers, and product teams.
You Have:
- Strong proficiency in Figma and After Effects.
- Interest or experience in motion design, animation, or creative automation.
- Excellent organisation, documentation, and communication skills.
- High attention to detail and consistency across assets and templates.
- 2+ years of design experience.
- Experience in DCO, programmatic, or ad tech environments.
- Familiarity with creative render pipelines or light coding (e.g. HTML, GSAP, JSON).
- Understanding of data-driven creative systems.
- Curiosity around AI tools and their role in creative production.
What We Offer
- Maternity and parental leave extra days
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
- Access to free 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…
At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!
The Talent Team at Critical Mass focuses on providing 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.
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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What We Do
Critical Mass is a digital experience design agency with a relentless focus on the customer. Founded in Calgary in 1996, we have steadily expanded into a group of over 950 people working in 11 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and South America.
