Senior Designer

3w3 weeks ago

Critical Mass

Calgary, CA · Full-time · C$70,000 – C$95,000

About this role

As a Freelance Senior Designer, you will develop breakthrough creative concepts that translate visually across interactive platforms for web-based marketing initiatives and product launches. You're an original thinker and collaborative leader, matching strategic direction with elegant design solutions for our client's homepage and other platforms.

You'll work closely with creative and technical disciplines while maintaining strong brand principles and systematic design rationale. Your day-to-day involves designing mood boards, storyboards, interactive page layouts, site grids, interface demos, photo retouching, and animated GIFs, as well as creating simple prototypes that convey preferred states, motion, and behaviors for interactive concepts.

You will collaborate with Art Directors, ACDs, and the larger project team to explore concepts and iterate on design layouts, anticipating and solving for potential design challenges and existing conditions. This role requires building and maintaining team rapport with the creative team, technology, account managers, producers, and our client, while visualizing and verbalizing ideas clearly.

This is a full-time, on-site contract position requiring 5 days per week at our Calgary office, running from June 29 through September 25. You'll have the opportunity to craft story-driven campaigns across multiple mediums while elevating the brand and distilling complex asks into clear, elegant, and focused messaging.

Requirements

6+ years of relevant interactive design experience
Strong design portfolio demonstrating 2+ years of design and interactive work
Highly proficient in formal design elements: typography, layout, balance, hierarchy, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, and unity
Expert-level proficiency in Sketch and Photoshop, including intelligent file organization for design iteration and web production
Solid working knowledge of Mac OS, Photoshop, and Illustrator
Understanding of the strengths and limitations of Flash, After Effects, QuickTime, Director, and ImageReady
Understanding of front-end web and mobile development, including HTML, CSS, iOS, and other technologies
Excellent communication and presentation skills across internal teams and with both creative and technical audiences

Responsibilities

Design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives for our client
Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience
Design mood boards, storyboards, interactive page layouts, site grids, interface demos, photo retouching and enhancements, and animated GIFs
Create original designs that align to project goals, creative direction, fluid templates, and standards
Craft story-driven campaigns across multiple mediums while elevating the brand
Distill complex asks into clear, elegant, and focused messaging
Create simple prototypes that convey preferred states, motion, and behaviors for interactive concepts
Collaborate with Art Directors, ACDs, and the larger project team to explore concepts and iterate on design layouts