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Freelance Senior Designer

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Critical Mass

Aug 28

  • Job
    Full-time
    Senior Level
  • Design
    Product
  • Vancouver
  • Quick Apply

AI generated summary

  • You need 5+ years in product design, a strong digital portfolio, expertise in Figma, Photoshop, and Sketch, excellent communication skills, and a passion for pixel-perfect design.
  • You will audit designs, create prototypes, ensure pixel-perfect specs, collaborate with teams, communicate with developers, refine options, and optimize presentations for effective design review.

Requirements

  • Experience with display banners
  • Pixel-perfect digital design portfolio highlighting your storytelling and problem-solving capabilities from concept to completion
  • Keen interest in championing brand identity through a balance of consistency and flexibility
  • Proficiency in the formal elements of design, with a strong focus on typography, balance, and proportion
  • Systematic thinker; able to anticipate the impact of design decisions well in advance of their application
  • Excellent digital file structure and asset management skills
  • Passion for pixel-perfection and order. Unparalleled attention to detail
  • Ability to articulate ideas verbally and digitally; be clearly understood by creative, product management, and development staff
  • Ability to deliver strong design rationale and supporting files in a tight timeframe
  • Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced, creative workplace
  • 5+ years’ experience in product design (especially for web), defining or extending design systems, and/or working within a brand’s strict style guidelines
  • Figma, Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including file organization, and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use
  • Clear communication and presentation skills that speak to both creative and technical audiences
  • Clearly articulate design rationale and any applicable limitations
  • Participate in healthy debates to ensure design systems are as robust and considered as possible

Responsibilities

  • Audit current implementations and identify potential areas for simplification and improved consistency.
  • Design with flexibility in mind, ensuring designs are accessible and adaptive to varying workflows, viewports, technologies, and locales.
  • Stress test designs across all possible variations and refine as needed.
  • Create prototypes to convey states, transitions, and/or behaviors.
  • Prepare design files for final documentation.
  • Ensure layout, typography, and specs are pixel perfect.
  • Communicate flexibilities and/or limitations to both designers and development, as needed.
  • Work closely with the Senior Art Director to understand design direction and help inform priorities.
  • Collaborate with Art Directors and larger project teams to explore and iterate on design options.
  • Consult with technical disciplines to ensure designs work within given limitations, and files are prepared with all necessary information to support the design intent.
  • Promote thoughtful and purposeful design, rather than an enforcement of rules.
  • Help define and/or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools.
  • Determine the best medium and optimize design files for creative review – be it print, onscreen visuals, prototype, or code.
  • Create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design rationale.

FAQs

What is the salary range for the Freelance Senior Designer position?

The salary range for this position is $60—$65 CAD.

What qualifications do you require for this role?

The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in product design, defining or extending design systems, and experience working within strict brand style guidelines.

What design tools should I be proficient in for this role?

Proficiency in Figma, Photoshop, and Sketch is required, including file organization and preparation of pixel-perfect files.

Will I have the opportunity to mentor junior designers?

Yes, the role involves mentoring junior designers and contributing to positive collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team.

Is experience with display banners necessary for this position?

Yes, experience with display banners is expected for the Freelance Senior Designer role.

How does the company promote diversity and inclusion?

Critical Mass is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and aims for at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities in its candidate pool.

What is the nature of collaboration in this role?

The Freelance Senior Designer will collaborate closely with Art Directors, project teams, and technical disciplines to iterate on design options and ensure designs work within specified limitations.

Do I need to have a portfolio for this position?

Yes, a pixel-perfect digital design portfolio highlighting storytelling and problem-solving capabilities from concept to completion is essential.

How important is attention to detail in this role?

Attention to detail is of utmost importance, as the role requires ensuring pixel-perfect layouts, typography, and specifications.

How will communication be handled during the hiring process?

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io.

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Critical Mass

We design experiences for brands we love. Anywhere we go, digital is our home. Canada + The World, Since ’96.

Marketing & Advertising
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1996
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Critical Mass is a team of 1,500 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, 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!