Position: Intermediate Brand Designer (Canada) (Norway)
Company: Vev
Experience required: 3y
Category: Design
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

**What we're looking for:**

We are looking for a full-time Intermediate Brand Designer to join the Vev creative team in Toronto. This role represents a chance to continue to shape the visual communication style for a disruptive, fast-growing global tech brand, to help drive growth through the development of high-quality marketing assets and help make the web a more beautiful place.

**Who you are:**

To be successful in this role, you should be a passionate, conceptual, all-around designer, ideally with a knack for art direction, animations, video editing, motion graphics, and strategy with your finger on the pulse of culture. You're a strong, independent worker who likes to collaborate with others on the creative, growth, marketing, and product teams. You're comfortable communicating clearly and efficiently with team members, and understand how to develop innovative design strategies to reach desired target markets, especially in a start-up culture. You are detail-oriented, able to multitask and most of all, you are open to unique challenges, big ideas, and expressing those big ideas through Vev's evolving design platform.

**What you'll be doing:**

- Lead the design of all of Vev's digital assets, while seeking to promote innovative design and achieve the highest level of design excellence across all projects.
- Design brand, marketing, web, and social to some internal and product initiatives, while advocating and evolving our brand's new identity and visual style.
- Manage and expand our brand asset library, ensuring that we maintain a quality library of on-brand/owned assets, periodically auditing and planning new asset development to keep our asset library fresh and in line with Vev's brand direction.
- Execute design needs for both the creative teams and product design team, as needed including motion graphics and photo/video editing.
- Maintain and monitor brand consistency and experience throughout all our projects while collaborating with team members.
- Help evolve the visual identity for the Vev brand to effectively communicate our vision and mission as we grow.
- Utilize user insights, qualitative data, and research findings and metrics to create engaging and high-performing creative.
- Keep up with industry developments, innovations, and tools.


**The Details**

- 3+ years of experience, ideally in a fast-paced B2C/DTC/B2B creative or startup environment.
- Strong visual design skills and proficiency with leading design, editing, and motion graphics software, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects, Lightroom, and other programs within Adobe Creative Suite, as well as Figma.
- Strong design aesthetic and meticulous attention to detail.
- Background in both digital and print design asset design, with a strong portfolio of previous work that includes the development of marketing materials for both the physical and online worlds.
- Experience identifying and managing resources for outsourcing additional design needs through freelance support.
- Experience with website design with basic knowledge of HTML/CSS is a plus.
- Experience growing and managing a brand asset library.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to meet deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- BA degree in Design, Visual Arts, or relevant field preferred.

**Our Benefits**

- Private Health Insurance.
- Company Bonus.
- 5 Weeks Vacation Plus Vev Benefit Days and flexible paid time off.
- Training and Development Opportunities.
- We value work-life balance with flexible working hours (core hours for meetings are 10.00 to 15.00).
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to building a team culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion in everything we do.
- We love doing social things together when it is possible so you will also join a very social team.