Associate Creative Engineer

2 Months ago • All levels

Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

Critical Mass is seeking an Associate Creative Engineer to join their Trailhead program. This 12-week program will immerse you in the company's operations and client work. As an Associate Creative Engineer, you will utilize your digital design skills to create artwork at scale, adhering to client brand guidelines. You will transform design briefs and key art into scaled digital assets for market delivery, working closely with creative and account teams to ensure timely and high-quality output. This role requires meticulous attention to detail in design, understanding of digital best practices, and the ability to translate creative concepts into various digital formats.

Good To Have:

1+ years of experience in advertising, digital, or design agencies/startups.
Working knowledge of motion design in Premiere/After Effects.
Web design (UI Design) experience.
Knowledge of remote collaboration tools (Slack, Teams, Sharepoint).
Familiarity with workflow management tools like Jira.

Must Have:

Bachelor's degree in Design or related field, or equivalent experience.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
Advanced understanding of UI design tools like Figma.
Working knowledge of Keynote & PowerPoint for deck creation.
Strong communication, self-discipline, and eagerness to learn.
Attention to visual and content details, adherence to brand guidelines.
Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
High level of English proficiency (B2).

Perks:

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

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The Trailhead program is the start of your epic journey at Critical Mass. During your initial 12-weeks, you will embark on a custom-built learning journey to understand what we do, who we are, and how we make award-winning work with our clients. Our goal is to integrate you into the amazing work we do here at Critical Mass, and support you as part of the team to grow your career with us!

As an Associate Creative Engineer, you are skilled in digital design. 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 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

Bachelor's degree (or an advanced student) in Graphic Design, Visual Design, Advertising Design, or related field or equivalent experience in advertising and/or digital agencies or startups.
1+ yrs. experience in advertising agencies, digital agencies, design agencies, and/or startups (plus)
Working knowledge of building and editing Keynote & PowerPoint decks
Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
Advanced understanding of UI design tools (Figma).
Working knowledge of motion design in Premiere/After Effects (plus)
Web work in Desing (UI Desing)
Strong knowledge of productivity tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Knowledge of remote collaboration tools (Slack, Teams, Sharepoint) and workflow management tools (Jira).
Experience or training in UI Design.
Strong communication skills, self-disciplined, open to learning and growing.
Follows brand guidelines – pays attention to visual and content details
Critical thinker and Problem-solving mindset
High level of English (B2)

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…

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 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 an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationships.
Increase employee engagement

This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.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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Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.