Senior Creative Engineer, Contract

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Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Creative Engineer, you will collaborate with a creative team to design artwork at scale, adhering to client brand guidelines. You will translate design briefs and key art into digital deliverables for market, focusing on pixel-perfect execution across various digital media. This role requires a seasoned professional with experience in high-volume digital design, ideally from an advertising agency or production studio, ensuring efficient workflow and brand consistency.
Must have:
  • Collaborate with the Creative Team to bring their ideas to life with best practices and brand standards.
  • Bring forth ideas to improve upon the team’s systems and processes for efficient workflow.
  • 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.
  • Understand technical limitations that may affect what can be achieved creatively in various media types and propose ideas to elevate creative fit for platform.
  • Build clean creative files to help manifest the development of a working framework.
  • Stay up to date on best digital practices for various platforms.
  • Create a detailed template guide to clearly communicate the workings of the system.
  • 3-5 years of experience working as a production designer or designer who thrives in high scale output, in an advertising agency, print or design studio.
  • Seasoned with high-volume design.
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Proficiency in motion design.
  • Proficiency with Figma/Sketch.
  • Experience building and editing Keynote & PowerPoint decks.
  • Pixel-perfect attention to detail with a commitment to quality assurance.
  • Expertise in layout production, image optimization, static/animated advertising banners, email production, and visual guidelines.
  • General understanding of HTML5.

Job Details

As a Senior Creative Engineer, you are a seasoned professional in digital design at high scale. 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 are an ideal candidate if you come from an advertising agency or production design studio and have worked on a range of creative projects from marketing collateral, digital campaigns, print work, brand work, ads, and more.

***Please note this is not a mechanical or computer engineering role.

You will

  • Collaborate with the Creative Team to bring their ideas to life with best practices and brand standards being top of mind.
  • Bring forth ideas to improve upon the team’s systems and processes to aid in maintaining an efficient workflow.
  • 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.
  • Mentor junior Creative Engineers to facilitate their development, including but not limited to their production design and technical design skills, to increase productivity and enhanced staff morale.
  • Understand technical limitations that may affect what can be achieved creatively in various media types and propose ideas to elevate creative fit for platform
  • Build clean creative files to help manifest the development of a working framework
  • Stay up to date on best digital practices for various platforms
  • Create a detailed template guide to clearly communicate the workings of the system

You have

  • 3-5 years of experience working as a production designer or designer who thrives in high scale output, in an advertising agency, print or design studio.
  • Seasoned with high-volume design
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite
  • Proficiency in motion design
  • Proficiency with Figma/Sketch
  • Experience building and editing Keynote & PowerPoint decks
  • The mindset to be a mentor on the design team.
  • Pixel-perfect attention to detail with a commitment to quality assurance.
  • Expertise in layout production, image optimization, static/animated advertising banners, email production, and visual guidelines.
  • General understanding of HTML5

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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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