Freelance Associate Creative Director, Design
Job Summary
Job Description
- Lead the design of a digital design system
- Manage a small design team
- Build and maintain creative culture
- Collaborate with other designers
- Represent the design team in meetings
1 skill required
Job Details
As a freelance Associate Creative Director, Design, you bring excellent visual problem solving and creative thinking to your team and onsite with clients. Fast on your feet, you adeptly juggle multiple projects and their deadlines—for yourself and your team—to exceed the needs and goals of all stakeholders. Through encouraging design best practices, you play an instrumental role growing the agency’s business, culture, and brand. Most importantly, you are passionate about creativity, typography, design systems, with a commitment to simple, clean design.
You Will
- Lead the design of a digital design system, both building from established patterns and iterating on new design components to evolve the system
- Be a hands-on creative lead with the desire and capability to manage a small design team
- Build and maintain creative culture within the design team
- Collaborate, prioritize, and partner with other designers
- Establish strong rapport with other discipline leads, collaborating with Account, Strategy, UX and Content/Copy peers
- Act as a lead representing the design team in recurring status meetings for all active and potential projects
- Stay familiar with the latest trends and work in the digital design industry
You Have
- 8+ years relevant experience in a creative or marketing organization
- Experience in a lead design role within a project-based strategic, creative, or technical agency environment
- A portfolio of relevant experience design work that you can share (ideally, site or app-based work)
- Experience that leans towards digital design, responsive layout & hierarchy, experience flows, or ecommerce
- An interest in design systems and strong working knowledge of Figma and other industry standard creative tools
- Confidence interfacing with clients; presenting work and managing the design and feedback processes
- Knowledge of digital processes and the creative process
- A test and learn mindset with the willingness to embrace and adapt to change
- Ability to thrive in a creative, fast-paced environment
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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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