At a Glance
- Tasks: Create stunning visuals across ads, social media, and web using graphic and motion design.
- Company: Join a dynamic team at Helcim, where creativity meets innovation.
- Benefits: Flexible work environment, opportunities for growth, and a chance to shape our brand's future.
- Other info: Embrace a culture that values diverse perspectives and encourages creative problem-solving.
- Why this job: Make your mark by evolving our visual identity and collaborating with passionate marketers.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in design, strong creative skills, and proficiency in After Effects and Adobe Creative Suite.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 $ per year.
Our brand has to show up in a lot of places: ads, You Tube, UGC, email, the blog, social, print, and the web.
We're hiring a brand designer who works across graphic design, web, and motion graphics, with basic video editing on top, so everything looks and feels like Helcim wherever someone meets us.
You'll report to Rodolfo, our Director of Design, and work directly with Marketing.
Your job is to keep our visual output evolving.
What's hard about it
You'll switch between graphic, web, motion, and video work, and each has its own craft and its own deadlines.
AI tools make fast output easy and good output hard, so a big part of the job is knowing when something is good enough to ship and when it needs another round.
You'll also question the brief, propose ideas, build on other people's input, and explain your rationale well enough to move stakeholders. 5+ years in a design, brand, or creative role.
You're a strong executor and a creative thinker with a great sensibility for design and aesthetics.
Strong creative ideation skills.
You question the brief, propose ideas, build on others' input, and explain your rationale well enough to move stakeholders.
You're a strong marketing partner who talks about strategic outcomes, not just design.
Advanced motion design skills.
You work fluently in After Effects and can take a storyboard to finished animation.
Your portfolio includes a motion reel.
You can shoot and edit video for ads, UGC, and You Tube.
You know Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite well.
You use AI tools like Higgsfield to move faster, and you have a strong sense of judgement about what quality means when AI generates the output.
What you don't need
Payments or fintech experience.
Illustration, 3D, or UI/UX experience.
It's useful, and you can build it here.
A degree in anything specific.
If something would make the interview process more accessible for you, tell us and we'll sort it out.
We hire for range, because a team that thinks the same way solves problems the same way.
Visual design.
Ads, web, email, storyboards, print, social media, and more, all in the Helcim brand language.
Concepting and storyboarding.
Developing ideas with Marketing, sketching to make complex, abstract concepts easy to grasp, and joining conversations that go beyond design to focus on strategic outcomes.
Motion design and video editing.
Turning storyboards into finished motion in After Effects for ads, social, and web, and shooting and editing video for ads, UGC, You Tube content, and more.
AI-assisted production.
Using tools like Higgsfield to speed up the work, and deciding where AI output is good enough and where it isn't.
Design Ops.
Improving how the Design team works and keeping our internal digital asset library in order.
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Senior Brand & Motion Designer in Calgary employer: Helcim Inc.
At Helcim, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and inclusive work environment in our Calgary office. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through our focus on coaching and developing talent, while our hybrid work model enhances team cohesion and communication. With a culture that champions resilience, transparency, and accountability, we empower our employees to take ownership of their work and drive meaningful impact in the tech industry.
