Freelance Designer

3 Hours ago • 2 Years + • Design

Job Summary

Job Description

We are seeking a Freelance Designer for a 3-month project to assist with design work. The role focuses on digital design, specifically concepting for web experiences, and will be key in evolving our client's digital ecosystem. You will create smart, thoughtful digital designs that enhance brand experience across global touchpoints, collaborating with teams on projects requiring strategic thinking, brand consistency, and digital craft. Responsibilities include designing digital experiences with a web focus, translating brand principles into design systems, collaborating with UX, strategy, and development teams, contributing to design standards, developing concepts, and balancing strategic development with business objectives.
Must have:
  • 2+ years of experience
  • Strong digital design portfolio
  • Digital/web design experience
  • Design system knowledge
  • Figma proficiency
  • Attention to detail
  • UX principles understanding
  • Collaborative skills
  • Project management
  • Proactive mindset
  • Autonomous operation
  • Eagerness to collaborate
Good to have:
  • Motion design experience
  • After Effects experience

Job Details

We’re looking for a Freelance Designer to join our growing team and assist with the design work on a 3 month project. This role is grounded in digital design, particularly concepting for web experiences, and will be central to the ongoing evolution our client’s digital ecosystem.

This role is focused on providing smart, thoughtful digital design work that elevates the brand experience across global touchpoints. You’ll collaborate with others on projects that require strategic thinking, brand consistency, and digital craft.

You Will:

  • Help with the design of digital experiences, with a primary focus on web
  • Translate brand principles into modern, cohesive design systems
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UX, strategy, and development
  • Contribute to and uphold design standards that scale across global markets
  • Develop concepts and communicate ideas.
  • Balance strategic development with client business objectives.
  • Direct and delegate to core creative services disciplines.
  • Contribute to the innovative development of the creative department.
  • Participate in strategic brainstorming, concept development, creative brief development, and creative execution.

You Have:

  • 2 or more years of experience and a strong digital design portfolio.
  • Proven experience in digital/web design with strong design system knowledge
  • Experience in Figma and a sharp design eye with high attention to detail
  • Understanding of UX principles (though this is not a UX/Product role)
  • Experience in motion design or After Effects is a strong plus
  • Comfortable working in a collaborative environment and managing projects end-to-end
  • A proactive mindset with the ability to operate autonomously
  • Eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.

 

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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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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