Associate Designer

As an Associate Designer, you are excited to contribute to the development of creative concepts that translate visually. You are an original thinker and a team player matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. Most importantly, you are driven by a passion for design. You will have the opportunity to try the digital agency world to see if it's for you! Developing talent is part of our DNA. This junior talent program is a fast-track to launch your career with regular learning opportunities, mentorship and real client work. 

You Will:  

• Work with a mentor to design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives 
• Create and update digital assets for websites, product pages, and other online channels.
• Support ongoing website maintenance and content updates.
• Design layouts, banners, graphics, and visual elements that align with brand guidelines.
• Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables.
• Build and maintain a team rapport with entire multidisciplinary project team.

You Have:  

• Strong design portfolio that demonstrates solid visual, interactive and graphic design skills. 
• Comfortability brainstorming and contributing to bigger ideas 
• Ability to articulate creative ideas 
• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail 
• Understanding of information architecture and hierarchy 
• Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the web 
• Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people 

Nice-to-haves:

• Post-secondary education, certification, or experience in a related field preferred 
• Experience using standard design tools, such as Figma, PhotoShop, Adobe XD, or Sketch
• Experience with digital design, including UX
• Motion graphics experience for the Web and video

What We Offer:

• Global maternity and parental leave
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, personal/sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
• 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts

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.

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, omc.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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