Creative Engineer

2 Hours ago • 2 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Creative Engineer is responsible for producing design deliverables, including image assets, resizing banners, and refreshing layouts. This role involves managing digital production projects independently, creating assets for digital products, and staying updated with design trends and technologies. They will handle site/app maintenance, image processing, digital advertising, and deck template creation. The engineer will also communicate with team members and provide quality assurance on deliverables.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in advertising or digital agencies.
  • Photoshop retouching skills.
  • Experience in site/app maintenance and digital marketing.
  • Experience creating assets for digital products.
  • Understanding of design principles and trends.
  • Ability to handle complex digital production projects.
  • Understanding of digital marketing and online advertising.
  • Proficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of After Effects and Adobe Animate.
  • Advanced understanding of UI design tools (Figma/Sketch).
  • Knowledge of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
  • Working experience with animation.
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 12 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts
  • And more…

Job Details

The Creative Engineer is responsible for executing production design deliverables, including creating image assets, resizing display and social media banners, and refreshing digital layouts and templates. The Creative Engineer works as part of a larger team and can handle complex digital production projects efficiently with minimal supervision from either a Senior Creative Engineer or a Creative Engineering Lead. This role also involves managing digital production projects independently.


 

You will:

  • Independently handle the creation of production design deliverables in the following areas: site/app maintenance, image processing, photo retouching, digital advertising, and deck template creation. The deliverables include (but are not limited to) layout skinning, layout production, red lines, image asset creation, image optimization, image resizing & cropping, photo retouching & photomontage, animated and static online advertising banners and email production, animations, deck, and visual guideline creation, either by creating them from scratch or by following brand guidelines.
  • Communicate effectively with creative engineering team members, project managers, creative engineering leads, and clients when required.
  • Provide excellent quality assurance on all deliverables.
  • Stay up to date with recent design trends and new technologies.
  • Maintain a solid working knowledge of the industry's latest design tools, platforms, and technologies.

 

You have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Design, Advertising Design, or related field or equivalent experience in advertising and/or digital agencies or startups.
  • 2+ yrs. Experience in advertising agencies, digital agencies, design agencies, and/or startups.
  • Photoshop retouching skills
  • Experience working in production design teams in the following areas: site/app maintenance, digital marketing, digital animation, and print, preferably for international clients and global brands.
  • Experience creating assets for digital products.
  • Solid understanding of design principles, trends, and systems.
  • Ability to handle complex digital production projects independently.
  • Understanding of digital marketing, digital production, and online advertising.
  • Understanding of interactivity, animation principles, and best practices.
  • Proficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
  • Strong knowledge of Keynote, PowerPoint
  • Knowledge of After Effects and Adobe Animate (Celtra or Orca Plus)
  • Advanced understanding of UI design tools (Figma/Sketch).
  • Strong knowledge of productivity tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Knowledge of remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, Drive, Box, Paper, Evernote) and workflow management tools (Jira, Trello, Asana, Basecamp).
  • Any certification, course, or training in UX, UI, visual design, design systems, marketing campaigns, business, and/or design thinking is a plus.
  • Knowledge of CSS, HTML and JavaScript is a plus
  • Working experience with animation is a plus.

 

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

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.  If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

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, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationships.
Increase employee engagement

This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. 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.

 

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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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