Graphic Designer

Cella by Randstad Digital is seeking a highly skilled Graphic Designer to join a fast-paced, client-oriented team. In this role, you will act as a brand steward, creating accurate, visually compelling, and brand-compliant design solutions across multiple channels. You will manage projects from initial brief to final production, ensuring all work meets exact industry standards for both print and digital media. The ideal candidate is a proactive collaborator who can provide strategic design rationale, stay ahead of industry trends, and deliver innovative solutions that meet complex communication needs.

This is a contract position that requires the ability to manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining meticulous attention to detail and brand integrity. This is a 12-month contract, which allows the talent to work remotely from within the Greater Toronto Area.



Advantages
• This role isn't just about execution; it’s about being a "steward" of a brand. You will gain significant experience in maintaining brand integrity across a massive variety of touchpoints. For a designer, the ability to show you have managed a major brand’s visual identity consistently—from print mechanicals to digital social cards—is a highly marketable skill that proves you can handle the responsibility of a company’s public image.
• The requirement for expertise in Figma alongside the traditional Adobe Creative Suite and After Effects places this role at the intersection of traditional graphic design and modern UI/UX workflows. By working in this environment, you will sharpen your skills in high-demand tools like Figma and motion graphics, ensuring your technical toolkit remains current with industry standards and highly competitive for future opportunities.
• The job emphasizes enhancing designs to meet ADA/WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards. As digital inclusivity becomes a legal and ethical priority for major corporations worldwide, having hands-on experience in creating accessible design solutions is a major career differentiator. This expertise moves you from being a "visual artist" to a "strategic designer" who understands how to reach all audiences.
• Unlike "behind-the-scenes" production roles, this position requires you to attend client meetings and provide design rationale. Developing the "soft skills" of presenting concepts, defending design choices, and managing client expectations—especially in a fast-paced agency or corporate setting—builds the professional maturity needed for senior-level or art direction roles in the future.

Responsibilities
• Design & Production: Create mechanical layouts from original designs or "compositions," utilizing raw design layouts and incomplete files to produce final, industry-standard digital files.
• Brand Stewardship: Provide expert brand guidance to maintain a consistent look and feel across all materials, ensuring every project adheres to established corporate guidelines.
• Client Engagement: Attend client meetings to present concepts, explain design merits, and provide professional insight and rationale for design decisions.
• Accessibility & Quality: Enhance all designs to meet WCAG 2.0 (ADA) accessibility standards and adhere to strict quality control policies.
• Project Management: Manage the full lifecycle of multiple projects from concept to completion, ensuring all work is delivered on time, within budget, and properly documented/stored.
• Collaboration: Work proactively and collaboratively with internal and external parties, including senior creative leads and business partners, to brainstorm ideas and implement process improvements.
• Multi-Channel Execution: Design and layout a wide range of internal and external materials, including web assets, social media cards, digital ads, email campaigns, animation, and print media.

Qualifications
• Experience: Minimum 5-7 years of graphic design experience in a client-facing, fast-paced environment.
• Education: 2-4 year diploma or degree in Graphic Design, New Media Design, or Information Design from a recognized institution.
• Technical Proficiency: Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Figma, and After Effects (animation skills are a plus).
• Digital Ecosystems: Professional understanding of Apple OS; working knowledge of PowerPoint, Word, and Dreamweaver is an advantage.
• Design Standards: Deep understanding of print and digital production standards, including the ability to prepare files for exact industry specifications.
• Communication: Fluent in English (written and spoken); bilingualism is considered an asset. Excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate diplomatically in challenging situations.
• Soft Skills: Meticulous attention to detail, strong time-management skills, and a diverse portfolio that demonstrates creativity and critical thinking.

Summary
If you are a creative professional with a passion for brand excellence and strategic design, we want to hear from you. This is a time sensitive opportunity, please submit your resume and a link to your portfolio for consideration.

Cella by Randstad Digital uses artificial intelligence to help our recruiters screen, assess and select qualified talent for this role and others within our database. Although Cella by Randstad Digital uses A.I. as a tool, candidate selection and hiring decisions are made by our employees.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.