Senior Designer

Job Details

Role: Senior Designer

Department: Creative

Job Location: Remote (Canada)

Role Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours: Monday - Friday 9 AM-5 PM (in your timezone, flexible hours)

Pay: $68,000 - $81,000 CAD

As a company that values inclusion and diversity, Thrive seeks individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to apply for this position. We encourage anybody who is interested in this position to please apply!

ABOUT THRIVE

We're one of North America's top digital marketing firms. At Thrive, we evolve our services by continually building and growing as we learn and adapt to our clients needs and the world around us. We prioritize taking frequent steps back to examine our methods, to see what's working and what's not, so that we can continue to hone our expertise.

Our mission is to grow your favourite companies in a sustainable way, and as a result, we have developed a deep expertise in performance marketing, brand marketing, digital design, and data and measurement - having managed over $2 Billion USD in advertising spend over the past decade. You may not realize it, but you've probably seen some of our work with startups, Fortune 500 companies, and companies of all sizes in between (Uber, Asana, Masterclass, Snapchat, Change.org, lululemon - to name a few!).

Our culture is centered around creativity, innovation, problem solving, empathetic understanding and continual learning. People are challenged in a way that helps them continue to achieve career growth and goals, and that also lives in harmony with being respectful of each person's boundaries. It's an environment where we encourage each team member to experiment, and know that this doesn't always have to lead to a successful output - but the journey there helps develop critical skills, experiences and lenses to implement in our work now and in the future. We curate playfulness in our work, and create an environment where each person knows they can be their uniquely awesome selves at Thrive.

THE ROLE

Joining the Creative department as our Senior Designer you will learn about Thrive, how we operate and understand our values and principles. You will collaboratively apply creative and design expertise to produce visually consistent, effective, and on-brand online advertising campaigns for sustainable project growth.

Your focus will of responsibilities will be:

• Domain: Lead end-to-end creative campaign projects, helping to define the overarching look and feel, offering clear direction to team members, and producing industry-leading digital creatives adaptable across various mediums, including static images, video, motion and web.
• Client: Align creativity with business goals, lead client presentations to build confidence, actively contribute to project alignment, independently innovate, and collaborate to improve project outcomes.
• People: Collaborate with the Design team to align projects with strategy, mentor team members, maintain quality, support creative visioning, and foster a feedback-rich environment for growth and development.
• Company: Foster strong connections with Performance teams, champion process improvement through innovation, incorporate comprehensive research into projects, and relentlessly enhance content, processes, and strategies to optimize results and productivity.

We're committed to delivering an exceptional onboarding experience that will create a strong foundation for your launch in this role:

• In your first 30 days you'll learn the company's mission and values, how we operate as an agency, and onboard into your first creative projects. You'll also be introduced to our creative process, services, and products.
• In your first 60 days you'll put your learning, skills and experiences to use by executing and producing deliverables for 1-2 active creative clients.
• In your first 90 days you'll have become an integrated team member, contributor, mentor and trusted resource to the Creative team producing best in class creative with a focus on performance.

QUALIFICATIONS

• You have a portfolio that showcases examples of static, motion, video, and digital marketing campaign work for a variety of different brands, with supporting results and insights driven by your creative.
• You have worked on a variety of complex creative projects where you've had to translate brand standards and guidelines into creative executions that work across multiple digital marketing channels and tactics.
• You have a clear production process that affords you the ability to work efficiently, manage and produce large volumes of deliverables with concurrent deadlines, and assist others.
• You have demonstrated an ability and expertise working with design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (specifically After Effect and Premiere Pro), and Figma.
• You have high attention to detail and proficiency in applying design principles, including hierarchy, visual balance, photography, illustrations, typography, and composition paired with expert layout skills, storyboarding and sound design to communicate and simplify complex concepts to your audience.
• You are keen to learn, grow and hone your creative skills to broaden your creative skillset, better understand digital marketing creative, and how to make better data-driven design optimizations.
• You are a natural leader who enjoys mentoring other Designers, helping them enhance their technical skills.
• You have experience collaborating with other departments and the Design team to align creative projects with strategy, ensuring they meet objectives.

Competitive Total Compensation Package

At Thrive we aim to have base compensation for team members be above market place at the 75% percentile based on the average of the locals of Toronto, ON and Vancouver, BC, Canada, while also offering a competitive benefits package which includes: remote-first and flexible work, 3 weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick and personal days, quarterly paid wellbeing days, internal career coaches, short / long-term disability, over $40k CAD in medical, dental & paramedical coverage, and so much more!

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We are an equal opportunity employer that deeply values a diverse community.

Thrive has a zero tolerance policy on bullying, discrimination and harassment of any kind against race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, ability status, family or parental status, age, or anything else that makes you uniquely you. We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of this.

We translate this policy to all aspects of employment including recruitment, hiring, promotions, performance management, training and development, compensation, benefits, and terminations.

We encourage those with disabilities to apply. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates and include all aspects of the selection process.

The innovation, creation and execution of the work of Thrive Digital takes place on stolen, unceded, and occupied Indigenous land across Canada - on the traditional territory of First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples from coast to coast.

Please note that while all of our roles are remote, we are a Canadian company and will not be sponsoring visas for this position. You must be eligible to work in Canada and reside in Canada upon start date to be selected.

Please be aware of hiring scams. At Thrive Digital we would never offer a job or an interview without someone going through our application and interview process first. While we do reach out to people on social channels, most commonly LinkedIn, with information about our active job posts, we always include a detailed recruitment package and a link to our careers page to apply. We do not reach out to candidates via text, WhatsApp or telegram or request any personal information. All recruiting-related emails would come from a @thrivedigital.com email address or Greenhouse (applicant tracking system).