Position: Design Manager
Location: Hybrid
Starts: January 2023
Duration: Full-Time
Status: Full-Time
Rate: Up to $115,000
Our marketing agency client is looking for a Retail Creative Experience Design Manager to join a fast-paced, client-facing team full-time. If you are well versed in restaurant retail marketing and are passionate about your design craft, we are eager to talk to you and tell you more!
What you’ll be doing as the Design Manager:
- Playing a leadership role in innovative design and messaging.
- Analyzing user needs, tasks, and environments, generating complete user experiences that lead to concepts, from sketches to mockups to detailed design.
- Identifying and driving insights to prototypes starting with problem definition, applying best practices and fresh approaches and delivering a superior experience.
- Providing both research leadership and collaborating with the client and internal stakeholders.
- Working with client, and agency Account, Design and Production teams to deliver on objectives, and milestones.
- Ensuring alignment with client, management and other team members through regular progress updates.
Skills and Experience:
- 4+ years of experience as a design leader – Lead Designer, Art Director etc.
- Clear understanding of trends in the QSR market.
- Strong ability to think on your feet, self-motivated and works well in ambiguous situations.
- Ideate and sketch directly with client to optimize customer touch-points and messaging.
- Analyze and model customer needs, tasks, and environments of use.
- Participate in usability testing and interpret analytics data.
- Strong 2D visualization skills – Sketching, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign.
- Digital experience a big plus.
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Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: [email protected]
Creative Circle ULC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, race, citizenship, ethnic origin, place of origin, creed, disability, family status, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, record of offences and/or any other ground protected by applicable law. If you require accommodation in the application process on the basis of a disability or any other ground protected by applicable law, please contact a member of our Human Resources team at [email protected] or your Creative Circle Recruiter to make arrangements.
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