About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Associate Creative Director, Digital Design based in Canada.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the creative and digital direction of a leading global B2B SaaS organization. You will lead the development of high-impact digital experiences, marketing campaigns, brand initiatives, and product communications. The position combines creative leadership, hands-on design, digital innovation, and people management within a fast-growing environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of creative concepts across digital, print, multimedia, marketing campaigns, branding initiatives, and product communications
- Own and evolve a tokenized digital web design system in Figma, maintaining alignment between design components and the underlying codebase
- Prototype and build digital experiences using AI-assisted design and development tools
- Collaborate closely with product, marketing, sales, UX, and other cross-functional teams
- Bring an e-commerce and product-led-growth mindset to digital experiences
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of digital designers
- Oversee the creative production process from ideation through final delivery
- Contribute to brand guidelines and ensure visual consistency
- Stay current with emerging design practices, technologies, AI-powered tools, motion techniques, and digital trends
- Partner with UX teams to translate user insights into intuitive digital experiences
- Analyze creative performance using analytics, heatmaps, A/B testing
- Hire, develop, and lead a creative team
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional creative experience, including at least 2 years managing people directly within a B2B SaaS, technology, or comparable high-tech environment
- Advanced proficiency with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects
- Hands-on experience using AI models and AI-assisted design or prototyping tools
- Practical experience working with componentized or tokenized design systems in Figma
- Strong understanding of brand strategy, UX/UI principles, digital marketing
- Familiarity with digital performance tools such as Google Analytics, heatmaps, and A/B testing
- Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional projects
- Exceptional communication, storytelling, presentation, and influencing skills
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, hiring, and team development
- Portfolio demonstrating a broad range of high-quality creative work
- Experience with e-commerce or product-led-growth environments is highly desirable
- Experience structuring design systems for AI or MCP-based tooling is a strong plus
- Additional expertise in motion design using After Effects or Premiere Pro and 3D design using Cinema 4D or Blender is desirable