Our client is hiring a full-time Senior Designer!
Our client is a Toronto-based investment management firm offering a diverse range of investment strategies across public and alternative asset classes. They are focused on providing investors and financial advisors with differentiated investment solutions and thoughtful, engaging market and investment content.
The ideal candidate should be equally comfortable developing an engaging social campaign, designing a polished fund brochure, editing a video, improving a webpage or carefully reviewing a performance chart before it is released.
They should also have an interest in markets and investing, enjoys making complex information visually accessible and wants to contribute to the continued evolution of our client's brand across both advisor and direct-to-investor channels.
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of assigned design projects from concept through final production, within the broader creative direction established by the VP, Creative Services.
- Design a wide range of print and digital marketing materials, including fund brochures, product sheets, fact sheets, commentaries, reports, presentations, advertisements and event materials.
- Help shape and evolve our client's social media visual identity, ensuring a consistent and recognizable look across organic and paid content.
- Develop social media assets including campaign creative, investment insights, product content, charts, animations, promotional graphics and short-form video.
- Establish and maintain templates, visual standards and design systems that support consistency across social and other marketing channels.
- Translate investment themes, market commentary, product information and financial concepts into clear, engaging visual communications for professional and individual investors.
- Develop creative concepts and visual executions for fund launches, marketing campaigns, webinars, events and other initiatives.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional graphic design and video editing experience, ideally within financial services, investment management, banking, insurance, professional services or another regulated industry.
- Experience within asset management or investment marketing is a strong asset.
- A strong design portfolio demonstrating sophisticated work across social media, print, digital, video editing or motion graphics, and brand applications.
- Demonstrated ability to develop creative concepts and take projects from initial idea through final execution.
- Strong experience creating social media content and building a cohesive visual identity across an ongoing content program.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, with experience in Premiere Pro and After Effects for video and motion graphics.
- Experience with web design and UX/UI principles, including responsive layouts and information hierarchy. Experience with Figma or similar tools is an asset.
