Senior Graphic Designer

Overview

Senior Graphic Designer. We’re looking for a highly skilled senior level designer who finds inspiration everywhere and can help us level up our client work while mentoring younger designers from our team. The ideal candidate will have one or more parallel skills (e.g. pattern making, brush making, mastery of textures, second language, web design skills, font making experience, art direction, etc.) and will have or be willing to acquire a certificate in accessibility as Beacon adheres to minimum accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Own your deliverables, while keeping the team informed
• Mentor and teach your colleagues skills you may possess and they do not
• Design and edit PDFs, presentations, logos, promotional assets, etc, as requested by management and/or the clients
• Be detail oriented, double check all of your work
• Use industry standard design software from the Adobe Creative Suite
• Learn any new software as required by management
• Research inspiration as needed
• Find and edit royalty free photographs, including close-cropping and coming up with cool filters and image treatments

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a graphic designer
• An exceptional portfolio that oozes quality and attention to detail
• A mind bending understanding of InDesign and avid use of all its wonderful style functions (including object styles)
• Ability to manipulate photos and create composites in Photoshop
• Ability to create logos, badges, and icons in Adobe Illustrator
• A willingness to keep up with the latest software capabilities

Assets

• Experience working in WordPress and/or SquareSpace
• Basic understanding of CSS
• Experience working with and coaching young designers
• Certificate (of any level) in accessibility

Traits

• You pride yourself on excellent communication. You use appropriate channels for the situation at hand, add professional humour as called for, type quickly, and speak with confidence and humility. You respond to messages thoroughly and in a timely manner.
• You are a team player, willing to support when needed and open to feedback. You know that everybody is after the same thing: deliverables that create results for the client.
• You love design so much. You are always looking to improve, both in your ability to ideate and use the software. You express an enthusiasm for design as a communication device and drive to exceed expectations.
• You nerd out over an organized workflow. Your friends would vote you the most organized person in the room. You are willing to adopt new systems of work as required (ie. time tracking tools, research methods, naming conventions, etc.) because you know it will dial things in for the company and your job.
• You practically gamify your work by challenging yourself to deliver to the highest possible quality within the allotted time. Getting faster and better gets you stoked.
• You are passionate about using InDesign and recognize that it’s pretty much the best software ever. You know the ins and outs of master pages, object styles, paragraph styles, character styles and table/cell styles… and you keep those styles named in a logical way and organized into folders as needed.

Hours and commitment

• 20-40 hours per week worked Monday to Friday
• Flexible start and end times so long as there is a window of overlap with the team (10am to 2pm Monday through Thursday)
• Optional half day Fridays

We appreciate flexibility when crazy deadlines hit, and may request to add to your schedule with short notice, but we\'ll always check with you in advance and pay time and half for overtime hours.

Where you’ll work

• We are fully remote
• If needed, a computer will be provided
• Applicants must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident

Compensation and time off

• We compensate hourly and anticipate paying $38-$43 per hour, based on experience and portfolio, plus benefits and bonuses
• Extended health benefits (flex plan)
• We can negotiate your paid time off, to kick in after the probationary period
• We are closed every year between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• We offer perks that include a subscription to Communication Arts Magazine, all your personal emissions offset, electric car rebate, your birthday off with pay, and a home office allowance

Culture

We are a fun and highly organized team with high standards. We care about the earth and all the living things on it. We are zealously planting trees and have planted over 300,000 trees since 2021. We are Green Business Bureau Platinum Certified and are a certified diverse supplier. Our team loves working together. We communicate via video meetings, chat, and our project management software. We also hold one or two in-person get-togethers per year.

Check out our values:

We say: Why not? Where others see roadblocks, we see possibilities. Proactive self-starters, we love challenges because we love finding solutions. And we celebrate every win.

Fortune favours the bold We aren’t inhibited by a fear of failure—because we know that the best way to succeed is to take chances, experiment, and grow.

Be better We constantly improve our habits and behaviours by listening, learning, finding inspiration in the work of others, and making an effort.

We give a shit The well-being of our clients and the people they serve, each other, and the world is inseparable from our work. We take pride in the process, from onboarding through to sign-off.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, please let me know.