Design Director

Calgary - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 31-10-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

As aDesign Director Artyou couple a strong creative voice with strategy and product thinking to lead performance marketing and design framework initiatives. Balancing creative thinking political acumen and organizational/process savvy you develop solid client relations by clearly communicating and justifying concepts. Visual and systematic design woven together with a performance lens is your bread and butterbut youve also got strong working knowledge of experience design brand development interactive commerce creative and product processes UX and UI principles and scalable design system developmentall essential in your role.

Youre looking to hone your management skills directing the collaborative efforts of a large creative team. And the environment you build for your team fosters professional growth and inspires others to exceed expectations. Most importantly you embody and embrace our valuesto be honest inspired driven passionate and realin everything you do.

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 bring the best out of a design team.
Build and maintain creative culture within the design team
Understand skillsets and personalities of team members to find areas for opportunity or improvement
Drive the strategies that address customer needs and business goals across digital channels.
Contribute creative solutions and innovations that strengthen both the agency brand and market leadership position.
Develop & deliver innovative proposals to capture both account growth and new business opportunities.
Promote continuous improvement and accountability by driving Creative discipline and operational excellence and lending industry vertical expertise.
Perform strategic account planning with senior management in vertical marketing groups.
Conceive and create experience design solutions that fulfill strategic business objectives.
Be just as comfortable in the work as leading it. Figma is an extension of your creativity.
Effectively communicate creative ideas and strategies to all project stakeholders.
Lead and partner with multidisciplinary teams including all creative disciplines technology planning account and program managers partners clients and more.
Provide regular team leadership and constructive feedback on all accounts.
Develop monitor and modify the business unit creative department staffing strategies and plans including team composition performance skills training and mentoring.
Develop implement and monitor quality standards across all creative artifacts and deliverables.
Continuously improve Creative methods problem-solving models and best practices.
Proactively manage the success of production scope schedules and budgets.
Engage and inform practice leads from media technology marketing science usability and quality assurance to maximize results and ensure satisfaction.
Support and lead Human Resource initiatives with a focus on performance management.
Understand embrace and communicate corporate mission and values.

You Have:

4 years visual communication education or equivalent experience.
8 years design marketing or communications interactive work and design leadership experience.
Experience in a lead design role within a project-based strategic creative or technical agency environment
Strong design portfolio.
Substantial experience managing and bringing to life performance social creative
A solid understanding of storytelling with the use of video editing pacing motion design excellence.
Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
Solid understanding and appreciation for the distinction between creative expression and commercial reality.

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization and we want to set you up for long-term
an effort to do so we expect this team to work from an office 5 days a week.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.

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