art director.

This position is onsite in downtown Toronto, requiring attendance 4 days per week for collaboration and team meetings, with one flexible remote day.

Advantages

Premium Portfolio Opportunities: Drive creative concepts across a diverse range of high-profile mediums (audiovisual, experiential, digital, print), offering substantial, high-impact work to elevate your professional portfolio.

Direct Collaborative Synergy: Benefit from 4 days of dedicated, face-to-face collaboration in the downtown Toronto office with a passionate team, ensuring faster feedback cycles and stronger creative execution.

Brand Innovation Mandate: You won't just maintain guidelines—you'll be tasked with pushing the brand into new, modern, and fresh aesthetic territory, providing a unique opportunity to shape the visual identity.

Responsibilities
• Serve as a highly practiced visual designer, driven by a passion for simplicity, clean, and modern aesthetics.
• Apply user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept through execution—across multiple mediums including print, audiovisual, experiential, CRM, and digital.
• Translate creative briefs and strategic insights into impactful communication pieces and campaigns.
• Effectively manage a diverse range of projects with both short and long timelines.
• Build strong working relationships and comfortably incorporate inspiration and ideas from various sources.
• Work collaboratively with print-production and motion production teams.
• Design creatively within existing brand guidelines, pushing them into new, fresh areas while ensuring brand consistency.
• Maintain a commitment to continuous learning, seeking new sources of inspiration and incorporating innovative ideas.
• Present and articulate your design work to all project stakeholders persuasively and engagingly.
• Champion a data-informed, customer-focused culture within the team.
    • Actively pursue effective and efficient operations, ensuring adherence to day-to-day business controls.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in graphic design, visual arts, or a related creative field.
• Post-secondary education in Design, Communications, the Fine Arts, or a related discipline.
• A demonstrable portfolio that showcases conceptual strength, meticulous attention to detail, and a balance of aesthetic beauty and clear visual communication.
• High level of proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).
• Ability to innovate within existing brand guidelines to create high-quality assets for presentations, audiovisual content, print materials, and digital needs.
• A positive, resilient personality, comfortable embracing feedback for continuous iteration and improvement.
• Comfortable working independently and efficiently, prioritizing tasks, and managing your time without direct oversight.
• Proven ability to balance high-quality design with short and demanding deadlines.

    • Ability to balance excellent copywriting with short and sometimes demanding deadlines.
    • Experience writing for the financial services industry is preferred

Summary
If you are a talented Art Director ready to lend your conceptual power and visual expertise to drive meaningful customer engagement, we encourage you to apply. Submit your resume and portfolio today to join a dynamic team committed to design excellence!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.