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Design Director

Design Director

The Mint Agency • Toronto, Ontario, CA
30+ days ago
Salary
CA$110,000.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

We’re looking for a Design Director to lead and elevate the visual output across all client work. This role is equal parts maker and leader—someone who can craft exceptional design while guiding a team to do the same.

You’ll shape creative direction, push the quality of work, and translate strategy into compelling, beautifully executed ideas.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead design across brand, campaign, and digital projects from concept to execution
  • Define and uphold a high standard of visual craft and creative excellence
  • Translate strategic insights into strong, ownable visual ideas and systems
  • Collaborate closely with Creative, Strategy, and Account teams
  • Provide clear direction and mentorship to designers
  • Refine and elevate work through hands‑on involvement and feedback
  • Present work confidently to clients and stakeholders
  • Champion design thinking and innovation within the agency

What You Bring

  • 6–10+ years of experience in design, with agency experience preferred
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating brand systems, campaigns, and digital work
  • Exceptional craft across typography, layout, and visual storytelling
  • Strong conceptual thinking and taste level
  • Confidence in presenting and articulating design decisions
  • Experience leading or mentoring designers
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (motion and prototyping tools a plus)

Nice to Have

  • Motion, 3D, or interactive experience
  • Experience building brands from the ground up
  • Interest in culture, trends, and emerging creative tools

About Mint

We’re an independent creative agency made of culture creatures with multidisciplinary expertise across all major marketing disciplines. Driven by creativity and inspired by humanity, we focus on brand love between companies and people. Our best work is done through true partnership, as an extension of and advisor to our clients. Guided by core structure, we build bespoke teams to collaborate on our client’s individual business problems to produce creative work that makes a positive impact on culture and the future.

Our Values

  • Empathy – We believe the work is better when we consider the world through the eyes of others.
  • Optimism – We believe in the good above all else; the good in people, the good in the world and the good in our future.
  • Audaciousness – We are brave enough to try the untried and unexpected. And we dare to always follow through.
  • Progressiveness – We fear status quo, so we break conventions and push to evolve, innovate and disrupt.
  • Kindness – We are respectful, honest, transparent, inclusive, social and good to each other.

What We Do

Advertising, Design & Branding, Strategy, Social, Digital, Content, Experiential, PR and Talent & Influencer.

Mint is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the hiring process, please let us know by reaching out to askhr@themintagency.com.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $110,000 to $155,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job‑related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of Mint’s total rewards program. Mint is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proudly an equal opportunity employer.

Nothing in this job description is intended to limit or reduce any minimum employment standards or entitlements under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000, as amended.

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