Senior Creative Engineer - Design

1 Month ago • 3-5 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Contract Senior Creative Engineer, you will be working in a fast-paced and demanding environment, collaborating with a multi-discipline team to ensure artwork adheres to the strictest brand and regulatory standards. Your responsibilities include collaborating with the Creative Team and partner agencies, overseeing the use of creative production platforms, bringing forth ideas for team system improvements, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of final files, designing to pixel perfection, acting as a gatekeeper for brand guidelines, mentoring junior engineers, and staying current on best practices. You will also be responsible for creating and maintaining detailed production guides, and ensuring deliverables are thoroughly reviewed for accuracy and compliance.
Must have:
  • 3-5 years production design experience.
  • Hands on experience in creative automation.
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Experience in high volume design workflows.
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with Figma/Sketch and Keynote/PowerPoint.
  • Experience with confidential or regulated content.
  • Experience in layout production and image optimization.
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 is not a Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering role*** As a Contract Sr. Creative Engineer, you are a seasoned professional in digital design at high scale, thriving in a fast paced, high stakes, and highly sensitive environment. You will work with a multi discipline team including creatives, designers, and cross agency partners to ensure artwork is designed at scale to the strictest brand and regulatory standards. You possess a meticulous attention to detail and a strong sense of accountability for the quality, compliance, and confidentiality of every deliverable. You are highly skilled in leveraging automation and production platforms, and you proactively mentor others while contributing to a culture of security, accuracy, and process.
  You will
  • Collaborate with the Creative Team and partner agencies to bring ideas to life, ensuring strict adherence to best practices, brand standards, and client mandated security protocols.
  • Oversee and support the use of industry leading creative production platforms, ensuring all workflows are compliant, efficient, and error free.
  • Proactively bring forth ideas to improve team systems and processes for greater workflow efficiency, compliance, and quality control.
  • Work with internal teams, account, creative, and external partners to ensure timely and accurate delivery of final files.
  • Design to pixel perfection, translating key art into the various resizes and versions required by the digital media buy, always upholding the highest standards of detail and compliance.
  • Become fully ingrained in the brand’s design templates, acting as a gatekeeper for brand guidelines and quality.
  • Mentor junior Creative Engineers, fostering a culture of process discipline, attention to detail, and security first thinking.
  • Understand technical limitations that may affect what can be achieved creatively in various media types and propose compliant, fit for platform solutions
  • Build clean, compliant creative files to help manifest the development of an efficient working framework.
  • Stay current on best practices within platforms like Celtra and other related digital production solutions, adapting quickly to process or regulatory changes.
  • Create and maintain detailed production guides and workflow documentation to support team consistency and compliance.
  • Ensure all deliverables are thoroughly reviewed for accuracy, regulatory compliance, and client specific requirements before release.
  You have
  • 3–5 years of experience working as a production designer or designer in a high output, high stakes, deadline driven environment (agency, production studio, or similar).
  • Hands on experience, and interest, in creative automation and creative production platforms.
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
  • Familiarity with Figma/Sketch and Keynote/PowerPoint; able to leverage as needed.
  • Demonstrated expertise in high volume design workflows and digital asset production. Experience collaborating with internal teams, partner agencies, and external vendors.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and commitment to quality assurance.
  • Experience working with confidential or regulated content, understanding the critical importance of security, compliance, and accurate output.
  • Experience in layout production, image optimization, static/animated advertising banners, email production, and visual guidelines.
  • The mindset to be a mentor and a role model for security, compliance, and quality within the team.


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 in office 5 days per week.

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 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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