Creative Engineer - Design Lead

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a contract Creative Engineer Lead, you will guide digital design at a high scale in a fast-paced, sensitive environment. You will work with creatives, designers, and cross-agency partners, ensuring artwork is designed at scale, with meticulous attention to detail and in strict accordance with brand guidelines. You will participate in project kick-offs, define and relay requirements, and ensure creative ideas are flawlessly executed for digital delivery. You will support the vision for creative engineering and mentor designers to achieve pixel perfection and compliance. Your responsibilities include leading DCO efforts, supporting performance reviews, mentoring Creative Engineers, collaborating with the Creative Team, managing project traffic, sharing innovative ideas, reviewing work, and refining workflows. You will also oversee the team's use of Celtra, design to pixel-perfection, act as a gatekeeper of brand guidelines, and actively take on designer responsibilities when needed.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of relevant experience in a high-volume environment.
  • Significant hands-on experience with Celtra.
  • Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and supervise design teams.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
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 13 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts

Job Details

***Please note this in not a Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering role***

As a contract Creative Engineer Lead, you are adept at guiding digital design at high scale in a fast-paced, high-stakes, and highly sensitive environment. You work with a multi-discipline team—including creatives, designers, and cross-agency partners—to ensure artwork is designed at scale, with meticulous attention to detail and in strict accordance with brand guidelines and client security protocols. You take part in project kick-offs, define and relay requirements, and ensure creative ideas are flawlessly executed for digital delivery to market. Taking cues from your Creative Engineering Director, you support the vision for creative engineering and mentor designers to achieve pixel perfection and compliance at every turn.



Lead

  • Lead from a design POV, managing DCO efforts (primarily within Celtra) that span from display through video, always maintaining the highest standards for accuracy, compliance, and confidentiality.
  • Support the performance review process with regular team meetings, portfolio reviews, and 360 bi-annual feedback, with a focus on quality control and error prevention.
  • Mentor and coach Creative Engineers in technical and design skills, fostering attention to detail, process discipline, and a security-first mindset.

 

Collaborate

  • Collaborate with the Creative Team to bring their ideas to life, ensuring strict adherence to best practices, brand standards, and client-mandated security protocols.
  • Foster effective project traffic management in partnership with the Account Director and other agency teams, supporting seamless cross-agency delivery.
  • Share innovative ideas to enhance systems and processes for greater efficiency, compliance, and quality.
  • Review work and provide feedback to team members, ensuring all deliverables are accurate, secure, and meet client-specific requirements.
  • Collaborate with other discipline leads, internal stakeholders, and partner agencies to refine workflows and frameworks for improved client and user satisfaction.

 

You will

  • Work with internal teams, account, creative, and partner agencies to ensure continuity of delivery of final files within agreed timeframes and to the highest standards of quality and confidentiality.
  • Oversee and support the team’s use of Celtra as the primary automation and creative production platform, ensuring adherence to platform best practices and workflow discipline.
  • Design to pixel-perfection and translate key art into the various resizes and versions required by the digital media buy, upholding strict attention to detail.
  • Act as a gatekeeper of brand guidelines and compliance for all creative output.
  • Actively take on designer responsibilities during staffing shortages or high-demand periods, modeling best practices in secure, high-volume production.
  • Deconstruct campaigns into a templatized approach; create nuanced executions from existing templates, and develop detailed template guides to support workflow consistency and compliance.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Celtra and applicable digital production best practices; leverage Figma/Sketch as needed for specific tasks.
  • Ensure all deliverables are accurate, compliant, and thoroughly reviewed before release.

 

You have

  • 7+ years of relevant experience in a high-volume production studio, digital design studio, or agency environment.
  • Significant hands-on experience with Celtra as a primary automation and creative production platform; experience with DCO frameworks within Celtra.
  • Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
  • Familiarity with Figma/Sketch and Keynote/PowerPoint; able to leverage as needed.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and supervise high volume design teams in a fast-paced, highly sensitive, and deadline driven environment.
  • Experience in resource allocation, project management, and cross-functional or cross-agency collaboration.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and commitment to quality assurance.
  • Experience working with confidential or regulated content, understanding the importance of security, compliance, and error-free output.
  • Expertise in layout production, image optimization, static/animated advertising banners, email production, and visual guidelines.
  • The mindset to be a leader and role model for security, compliance, and quality within the design team.
  • General understanding of HTML5.

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 13 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts
  • And more…

 

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. To do so, we expect our team to be ioffice 5 days per week. 

 

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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If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx 

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About The Company

Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.


We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.


We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

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