Creative Engineer

The Creative Engineer is responsible for executing production design deliverables, including creating image assets, resizing display and social media banners, and refreshing digital layouts and templates. This role requires handling complex digital production projects efficiently with minimal supervision from either a Senior Creative Engineer or a Creative Engineering Lead. Additionally, the Creative Engineer will manage digital production projects independently and contribute to template building by integrating content, creating layouts, and resizing assets using Figma.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently handle the creation of production design deliverables in areas such as site/app maintenance, image processing, photo retouching, digital advertising, and deck template creation.
• Develop and manage digital assets, including (but not limited to) layout skinning, layout production, red lines, image asset creation, image optimization, image resizing & cropping, photo retouching & photomontage, animated and static online advertising banners, email production, animations, and visual guideline creation.
• Use Figma to create and adapt layouts, resize assets, and remove or expand image backgrounds.
• Work with motion templates in Celtra for animations and interactive content.
• Organize and structure design files efficiently for team collaboration.
• Communicate effectively with creative engineering team members, project managers, creative engineering leads, and clients when required.
• Ensure excellent quality assurance on all deliverables with strong attention to detail.
• Stay up to date with recent design trends, technologies, and industry best practices.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Design, Advertising Design, or a related field, or equivalent experience in advertising and/or digital agencies or startups.
• 2+ years of experience in advertising agencies, digital agencies, design agencies, or startups.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma (must-have).
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), including Photoshop retouching skills.
• Experience working in production design teams on site/app maintenance, digital marketing, digital animation, and print, preferably for international clients and global brands.
• Experience creating assets for digital products.
• Knowledge of interactivity, animation principles, and best practices.
• Proficiency in Keynote, PowerPoint, or any other deck-building applications.
• Experience with motion templates in Celtra.
• Knowledge of After Effects and Adobe Animate is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of productivity tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and workflow management tools (Jira, Trello, Asana, Basecamp).
• Familiarity with remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, Drive, Box, Paper, Evernote).
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects independently.
• Any certification, course, or training in UX, UI, visual design, design systems, marketing campaigns, business, and/or design thinking is a plus.
• Knowledge of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript is a plus.
• Working experience with animation is a plus.

What We Offer:

• Maternity and parental leave extra days
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts
• And more…

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.  If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! 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.

The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationships.
Increase employee engagement

This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.