The Opportunity:
As Retail Creative Experience Director with our client, you’ll be part of a fast moving, forward-thinking team responsible for designing customer experiences in McDonald’s retail locations across Canada.
You demonstrate and inspire diversity of thought and the exploration of big ideas both practical and visionary. You will be working closely with the client, designing highly creative and relevant messaging, throughout all customer touch points in the restaurant. You are able to articulate messaging strategy through creative execution. You have a vivid imagination that is fed by a strong curiosity about the world around you and a passion for searching out new perspectives and processes.
With your advanced design skills, you will create original design solutions that reflect McDonald’s design ethos, support restaurant business targets, and enhance the consumer experience.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- 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 through to the employment of best practices and fresh approaches addressing consumer expectations and needs with solutions that delight the consumer and deliver a superior experience
- Providing both research and design leadership, collaborating with the client and internal stakeholders to assure comprehensive understanding of an integrated retail experience model toward the goal of a superior user experience
- Working with client, and in house Account, Design and Production teams delivering on objectives, and milestones
- Ensuring alignment with client, management and other team members through regular progress updates.
What You’ll Need to Be Successful:
- A clear understanding of consumer trends in the Quick Serve Restaurant market
- Excited to work directly with the client with a strong ability to think on your feet
- Used to being self-motivated and works well in ambiguous situations
- Ideate and sketch directly with the client to optimize customer touch-points and messaging in the restaurant as well as in the drive-through
- Analyze and model customer needs, tasks, and environments of use
- Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in usability testing and interpreting analytics data
- Strong 2D visualization skills – Sketching, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Experience playing a lead role with the Art Director and Studio creative teams
- Digital experience a big plus
- Candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of related professional experience
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Job Description
An independent sci-fi thriller proof-of-concept series is seeking passionate crew members to join a collaborative filmmaking team. The project follows a group of escaped experimental subjects uncovering connections between a covert government program and emerging wartime escalation protocols.
The production focuses on psychological tension, cinematic realism, survival storytelling, and natural-environment filmmaking. Multiple crew positions are available for individuals interested in gaining hands-on experience while contributing to a festival-focused independent production.
Job Responsibilities
Available crew roles include:
- Co-Director
- Director of Photography (DP)
- Camera Operator
- Sound Recordist
- Film Editor
- Post-Production Supervisor
- Colorist / Color Grader
- VFX / CGI Artist
- Fight / Movement Coordinator
- Set Provider / Location Support
- Prop Master
- Production Assistant (PA)
- Lighting Assistant / Gaffer
- Composer / Sound Designer
- Behind-the-Scenes Photographer / Videographer
Responsibilities vary by role and may include production planning, camera operation, audio recording, editing, visual effects creation, location support, lighting setup, music composition, and overall production coordination.
Requirements
- Passion for independent filmmaking and collaborative storytelling.
- Ability to work effectively within a creative team environment.
- Relevant experience for the selected crew position is preferred.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Willingness to contribute to a zero-budget independent production.
- Availability for production activities in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Portfolio, reel, or previous experience is considered an asset where applicable.
Compensation Details
- This is a voluntary, unpaid opportunity.
- Contributors will receive on-screen credit.
- Portfolio and reel footage access may be provided.
- Festival submission credits where applicable.
- Meals and snacks may be available on shoot days.
- Opportunity to gain collaborative experience on a cinematic independent production.