Senior Brand Designer

Position: Senior Brand Designer

Type: Full-Time; Salary

Location: London, ON (Remote Work Available)

Salary: $80,000 – $100,000

Start Date: TBD

Group Benefits: Yes

Reports to: Amanda McCallum, Creative Director, Branding

At tbk, we lead brands to their next:

Their next brand that delights customers and helps acquire the right ones.

Their next marketing website that generates more lucrative business.

Their next campaign that leads people with ease to connect with them.

Their next launch strategy that drives new expansion.

Their next backend platform that makes business easier and better.

Similarly, we lead tbk employees to their next:

Your next opportunity to meet with some of the world’s best clients.

Your next chance to show a talented team what you’re capable of.

Your next moment to focus on your career without sacrificing your personal life.

Your next ability to grow your career with senior mentorship and coaching.

Be your next at tbk.

As an experienced senior brand designer, you know the number of talented, committed, and creative professionals it takes to build effective and cutting-edge ecommerce brands, campaigns, websites, and platforms. It’s always a group effort, and this role is a central figure that sees the brand vision and goals turn into reality for clients. It requires senior level experience.

This role is remote-friendly, with a preference for candidates based in Ontario, Canada.

Consider applying to be part of tbk’s branding team!

A Day in the Life of tbk’s Senior Brand Designer:

• Morning Research – You start your day by reading the latest in design trends, continuously honing your skills in an ever-changing field.
• Daily Meeting – Early in the morning, you join tbk’s morning huddle, connecting with the team for 15 minutes to talk about what the day’s happenings. You help ensure everyone is ready to complete the deliverables needed for the products being designed.
• Client Consulting – After that, you meet directly with an existing client who is looking for a new brand, or a brand modernization project. Paired with the CEO and other account strategists, you listen, advise, and start the process of imagining a new future for the brand that will attract the right customers to its products and services.
• Client Presentation – Later that day you meet with a multi-national company that chose tbk to launch their new campaign. Today, you are presenting the campaign concepts for the first time, alongside the CEO.
• Team Support – After that meeting, you regroup internally with the creative team to plan the next steps based on client feedback, comments, and discussions.
• Brand Creation – Your afternoon is spent planning, dreaming, and executing a new brand and campaign for a medium-sized business that’s looking to expand its services into the U.S..
• Leadership – You end the day with a one-on -one with tbk’s Chief Creative Officer and CEO, Melissa McInerney. As your teammate, Melissa is supporting you with her 20 years of creative direction and brand design experience, leading teams and working with Canada’s most innovate companies.

Your Skills and Experience:

• A genuine interest in business and performance; you read to better your leadership, communication, business acumen, and design skills.
• A strong portfolio with experience in brand ideation and creation, campaign creation and design, and strong ad design.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly present designs and build alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• You are a natural leader with over 5 years of experience consulting directly with Canada’s top CEOs, CMOs, CFOs and more. You handle yourself well under pressure in meetings and can handle strategic questioning from clients.
• Excellent tactical visual design skills with a sensitivity to user experience.
• You’re energized by combining user feedback, research, and data insights into a user-centered design process.
• Ability to weigh competing factors to effectively prioritize product design initiatives.
• Experience working in a Lean/Kanban process.
• A respect and knowledge of WCAG compliant design.
• Up to date with the latest mobile apps, digital product trends, techniques, and technologies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s level education in Graphic Design, Visual Design, Interactive Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of work experience in design.

What we offer:

Our culture is an extension of our vision: to help clients and team members see the potential they never knew they had. We offer direct leadership mentoring and professional training to expand your knowledge, a culture of ownership and leadership, and epic celebrations. We also have great benefits, a flexible work environment, paid Refresh Fridays off in the summer, and ownership opportunities for senior leaders.

Qualified candidates should forward portfolio, resume and cover letter in confidence to: [email protected].

We are grateful to all applicants for their interest; however, we will only be contacting those candidates who have been selected for an interview.

A message from the CEO, Melissa McInerney:

Thank you for your interest in a career with tbk. To give you background, tbk is a company that helps other companies successfully compete. We do this by producing some of Canada’s most effective web design, branding, digital marketing and marketing software solutions. The company is comprised of over 40 staff members and is based in downtown London, ON, right across from beautiful Victoria Park.

Our company has been recognized for many industries and business awards and for that we’re grateful. In 2020, tbk was named to the Canadian Business Growth 500 list, which ranks “Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies”. In 2016, tbk was named Small Business of the Year at the London Chamber’s Business Achievement Awards. And for seven consecutive years (2016-2022), tbk has been named Top Web Design Provider in London by Consumer Choice Award.

By joining our team, you’ll be part of the company’s mission to help make businesses better through innovative uses of technological, digital and creative solutions. Some of our current clients include 3M® Canada, Davis Martindale LLP, Eckler Ltd., Extendicare Canada Inc., Hino® Canada, Jiffy Lube® Ontario (59 stores), Old Oak Properties, Tricar and Yogen Fruz®. You may also be involved in projects with tbk’s subsidiary company, AODA Online, a web accessibility software that has serviced over 2,000 corporate users across Canada.

tbk is passionate about improving the community too. We established tbk’s Women in Tech Scholarship, which pays for a female student’s first-year tuition entering Fanshawe College’s Interactive Media Design program. If staff have large vet bills, we pay for them (75% up to $3,000 per incident) through tbk’s Molly Fund. And this past summer, tbk’s Molly Fund opened to the public where families who have a dog that requires a medical amputation surgery can apply to the Fund for financial assistance.

Equal Opportunities:

tbk is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status.

tbk values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate based on any legally-protected class or characteristic. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.