Associate Creative Director, Digital Design Jobgether · Full-time · Remote $125,600–172,700 22 hours ago

Accountabilities:

• Lead the development and execution of creative concepts across digital, print, multimedia, marketing campaigns, branding initiatives, and product communications, ensuring consistently high creative standards.
• Own and evolve a tokenized digital web design system in Figma, maintaining alignment between design components and the underlying codebase while ensuring consistency, scalability, and usability for designers and AI-assisted tools.
• Prototype and build digital experiences using AI-assisted design and development tools, moving efficiently from initial concepts toward near-production-ready experiences and reducing reliance on traditional design-to-engineering handoffs.
• Collaborate closely with product, marketing, sales, UX, and other cross-functional teams to develop compelling visual narratives that support brand strategy, customer needs, business objectives, and growth.
• Bring an e-commerce and product-led-growth mindset to digital experiences, helping optimize web environments that operate as strategic, revenue-generating products rather than traditional marketing sites.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of digital designers, providing clear direction, constructive feedback, career support, and creative leadership while fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture.
• Oversee the creative production process from ideation through final delivery, ensuring projects meet quality standards, deadlines, budgets, and strategic objectives.
• Contribute to brand guidelines and ensure visual consistency across digital and creative outputs while maintaining an evocative and distinctive brand presence.
• Stay current with emerging design practices, technologies, AI-powered tools, motion techniques, and digital trends, incorporating relevant innovations into the creative workflow.
• Partner with UX teams to ensure user insights are effectively translated into intuitive, engaging, and high-impact digital experiences.
• Analyze creative performance across digital channels using analytics, heatmaps, A/B testing, and other relevant data to improve engagement, conversion, and customer retention.
• Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing creative team while championing customer focus, long-term thinking, growth, inclusion, and teamwork.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional creative experience, including at least 2 years managing people directly within a B2B SaaS, technology, or comparable high-tech environment.
• Advanced proficiency with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
• Hands-on experience using AI models and AI-assisted design or prototyping tools to enhance creative workflows and shorten the distance between design and development.
• Practical experience working with componentized or tokenized design systems in Figma, ideally with systems connected directly to a live codebase.
• Strong understanding of brand strategy, UX/UI principles, digital marketing, and the creation of compelling digital experiences.
• Ability to translate user insights, business objectives, and complex requirements into engaging and effective creative solutions.
• Familiarity with digital performance tools and methodologies such as Google Analytics, heatmaps, and A/B testing, with the ability to use data to optimize creative output.
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, enabling effective collaboration with developers, and a practical understanding of web-based technical requirements.
• Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional projects, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and deliver high-quality creative work under demanding timelines.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to explain creative concepts clearly to both design and non-design audiences.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, hiring, and team development.
• Portfolio demonstrating a broad range of high-quality creative work, including B2B marketing campaigns, digital experiences, branding initiatives, and other relevant work.
• Experience with e-commerce or product-led-growth environments is highly desirable, particularly where digital experiences are closely connected to commercial growth.
• Experience working in-house within a fast-scaling organization is an advantage, as is agency experience.
• Experience structuring design systems for AI or MCP-based tooling, or connecting design systems directly to production code, is a strong plus.
• Additional expertise in motion design using tools such as After Effects or Premiere Pro and 3D design using Cinema 4D or Blender is desirable.

Benefits

• Annual base salary of $125,600–$172,700 CAD .
• Initial Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant with no vesting cliff, plus potential ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance and applicable plan terms.
• Competitive total compensation combining base salary, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity for eligible roles.
• Flexible, employee-led remote working model designed to support different working preferences and collaboration needs.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave programs.
• Professional development stipend to support continued learning and career growth.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact digital experiences within a rapidly growing technology environment.
• Significant creative ownership and autonomy, with opportunities to experiment with emerging AI-enabled design and development workflows.
• Collaborative and inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives, innovation, personal growth, and long-term impact.
• Opportunity to lead and develop a high-performing digital design team while influencing global brand and customer experiences.