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.