Senior Designer

3 Days ago • 4-7 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

The Critical Mass team is seeking a Senior Designer to create applications for a high-traffic website, focusing on branding and human-centered design within a digital ecosystem. The role involves designing digital solutions, creating user-friendly interfaces, and collaborating with teams and clients. Responsibilities include designing mood boards, layouts, and animated GIFs, ensuring quality assurance, and maintaining rapport within the team. The Senior Designer will translate creative concepts visually and meet strategic objectives while staying on-brand.
Must have:
  • 4-7+ years of digital design experience.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing storytelling abilities.
  • Developed and diverse communication skills.
  • Ability to articulate creative ideas.
  • Attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
  • Solid working knowledge of Mac OS, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
  • Figma, Photoshop and Sketch expertise.
  • Understanding of interactivity and the Web.
  • Illustration skills in both electronic and traditional media.
Good to have:
  • Understanding of After Effects, Sketch, Principle
  • Illustration skills

Job Details

The Critical Mass team creates applications which drive one of the world’s most trafficked websites. We play an active role helping our client connect their consumers globally through mobile, digital, and in-store experiences.

Think of all the ways that we explore and purchase products - direct from the source, other retail stores both on and offline. This team focuses on maintaining the branding and human-centered design thinking and experiences throughout indirect channel partners digital ecosystem and drives strategies that provide customers with a thoughtful and engaging experience that stays on-brand.

As a Senior Designer focused on visual communication, crafting creative concepts that translate visually is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team player—matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. In addition to creativity, keen attention to detail makes your work stellar.

This position is required to be onsite 5 days per week in our Calgary office.



You will:

  • Design digital solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
  • Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
  • Rationalize solutions to project teams and clients.
  • Balance creative with client business requirements.
  • Design mood boards, storyboards, interactive page layouts, site grids and interface demos, photo retouches and enhancements, and animated GIFs.
  • Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.
  • Build and maintain a rapport with creative team, account managers, and project managers.
  • Visualize and verbalize ideas to team and client.


You have:

  • 4-7+ years of working experience in digital design and interactive.
  • Strong digital design portfolio showcasing storytelling abilities through thoughtfully designed case studies.
  • Developed and diverse communication skills.
  • Ability to articulate creative ideas.
  • Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
  • A solid working knowledge of the latest versions of Mac OS, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
  • Figma, Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including file organization, and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use.
  • An understanding of the strengths and limitations of After Effects, Sketch, Principle as well as information architecture and hierarchy.
  • Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the Web.
  • Illustration in both electronic and traditional media.

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, this role is required to work from an office 5 days a 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 U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
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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