# Associate Creative Director, Art Director

**Company**: Wealthsimple
**Location**: Remote (Canada)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CA$152K - CA$190K
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Wealthsimple is looking for an experienced Associate Creative Director, Art Director to help create innovative, human, and ridiculously entertaining work. The successful candidate will often work as a team with a copywriter partner, but also collaborate with designers, writers, marketers, and engineers across the organization.

**Responsibilities:**

- Be a highly conceptual thinker with strong storytelling and design skills.

- Develop big ideas and bring them to life through every stage of production.

- Own large and small brand projects and campaigns from kickoff to completion, often balancing multiple projects at once.

- Provide art direction on visual design for integrated brand campaigns and projects of various scales and types – from film, social, digital, to interactive experiences.

- Be a creative and strategic thinker who can see how creativity can solve business problems.

- Use AI in a variety of ways, such as moving ideas into functional prototypes, drafts, mockups, or animatics that can be evaluated more quickly, or developing and refining AI workflows for internally created assets.

- Present work in a clear, passionate, and dynamic way, championing the creative and vision to internal stakeholders.

- Manage relationships with outside production partners when necessary.

**Requirements:**

- 6-10+ years of experience as an Art Director (agency experience preferred, but not necessary).

- Ability to concept and art direct, developing storyboards, comps, or animatics without assistance from the Design team.

- Extensive experience with integrated campaigns, from strategic development through creative development and delivery.

- Production experience across all platforms - film, digital, social, and print.

- Well-versed in Adobe Creative Suite and able to be a hands-on creative delivering comps, layouts, and assets across all media types as well as give direction to studio designers where applicable.

- Familiarity with AI image and video generation tools.

- A truly collaborative creative approach.

- Give and receive constructive feedback in a respectful manner.

- Travel for production when necessary.

**Benefits:**

- Top-tier health benefits and life insurance.

- Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business.

- 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year.

- 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year.

- Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS.

## Skills

### Required
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AI image and video generation tools
- storyboarding
- comps
- animatics
- integrated campaigns
- film
- digital
- social
- print production

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