Position type: Full-time, remote okay, Canada only

Reports to: Creative Director

Leading by example.

OXD is a human-centred design and technology consulting firm working with clients across industries to solve complex, dynamic, and networked problems.

We’re looking for a Senior Designer to join our Creative team, full-time.

What the Senior Designer does at OXD

• Balances business strategy with gut-achingly great design to lead clients and other team members to deliver value-creating solutions

• Helps with resource planning and team organization

• Rolls up their sleeves to produce and direct visual design for websites and web applications for our clients

• Designs and produces content for presentations and other documents for internal marketing, brand, and sales initiatives

• Works with—and occasionally builds—brand and identity guidelines

• Competitive/comparative design research and exploration

• Brand guardianship of our own brand and the brands of our clients

• Is a kind person and is generous with ideas and praise

• Works with our Director of Sales and Project Managers to estimate Creative Team effort for project proposals

• Work across teams with experts from across our organization—user experience designers, developers, QA engineers, and project managers

Minimum requirements

• 10 years experience working in an agency environment

• A strong understanding of the core fundamentals of design, learned at a dedicated education facility or through equivalent work experience

• Experience leading and mentoring other designers

• Experience designing websites

• Experience in some of the production tools commonly used in modern web, UI, and graphic design and prototyping—things like Sketch, Figma, XD

• High degree of comfort using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and other Adobe suite tools

• Excellent typography skills

Bonus points for candidates who bring a little extra to the team

• Deep understanding of designing for accessibility

• Illustration abilities

• Experience with motion design, video editing, or 3D modelling