Illustrator/ Graphic designer

As a Senior Designer crafting creative concepts that translate visually is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team playermatching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital addition to creativity keen attention to detail makes your work stellar.
In this role youll design intuitive system-driven experiences that scale across web and mobile while pushing the boundaries of interaction and visual design. Youll define long-term product strategy and contribute to the platform foundation that supports multiple customer journeys across a consumer design team.
This is a contract hybrid role in our Calgary office.
You Will:

• Design solutions that meet or exceed strategicobjectives.
• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
• Manage projects with limited input from an Art Director.
• Guide and direct up to four designers with thorough delegation follow-up and mentorship.
• Rationalize solutions to project teams and clients.
• Balancecreativewith 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 andmaintaina rapport with creative team account managers and project managers.
• Visualize and verbalize ideas to team andclient.

You Have:

• 5 years education and experience in design and interactive.
• Strong design portfolio across consumer mobile and web experiences.
• 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.
• Understanding ofthe strengths and limitations of After Effects QuickTime Director andImageReady as well as information architecture and hierarchy.
• Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the Web.
• Illustration in both electronic and traditional media.
• Motion graphics experience for the Web and videoa plus.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.
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