Senior Graphic Designer

Hybrid- Toronto
Full Time
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As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will be a key team member, collaborating with our existing design team to enhance our visual identity across all channels. You’ll work on a variety of projects—from social media campaigns to traditional media, landing pages, and video content—bringing creativity and innovation to every task.In this role, you’ll contribute to refining our design systems and driving the overall design quality forward. Your ability to work closely with other designers, copywriters, and marketers will ensure that our visual assets are cohesive and impactful.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Impact Day-to-Day Design Work: Take charge of daily design tasks across multiple regions and asset types, including marketing initiatives like paid advertising, social media, landing pages, traditional media, and video content, ensuring high standards of quality and brand consistency.
  • Contribute to Design Strategy and Culture: Play a key role in shaping the design strategy and fostering a culture of creativity and innovation, while also ensuring that all design work aligns with the broader brand vision.
  • Elevate Design Quality: Apply a deep understanding of design principles, user needs, and data-driven insights to create visually stunning and effective designs, introducing innovative flair while maintaining brand integrity.
  • Collaborate with Creative and Cross-Disciplinary Teams: Work closely with other designers, copywriters, engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to produce cohesive and impactful visual assets that are seamlessly integrated across all touchpoints of the product and brand experience.
  • Design Thinking and Prototyping: Lead design thinking workshops and sprints, and quickly develop prototypes to iterate on designs based on feedback, ensuring that the final products are both innovative and user-friendly.
  • Narrative and Storytelling: Craft compelling visual narratives that effectively communicate the brand’s story across various media.
  • Adaptability and Continuous Learning: Stay ahead of design trends, continuously refining your skills and knowledge, and bringing fresh perspectives and ideas to the team.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in graphic design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design skills across various mediums.
  • Proficiency in design software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and Figma.
  • Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and layout principles.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in branding and identity design.
  • Knowledge of video editing software and animation is a plus.
  • Familiarity with project management tools such as Asana and Notion.
  • Experience working with lottery or regulated markets is a plus.
  • Experience working with print production processes.

WHY WORK AT ASCEND?

  • team that is intellectually curious, dedicated, and has a willingness to get the job done
  • grow a company that helps charities and NPOs fund their charitable causes
  • downtown Toronto office with lake views and close proximity to transit
  • will be given the support you need to develop and advance.
  • Hybrid work environment

WHO WE ARE

Founded in 2010, Ascend Fundraising Solutions online and in-venue fundraising platform and solutions have been used by some of the world’s most notable non-profit organizations such as United Way, Vancouver Canucks Foundation, Canadian Olympic Foundation, Canadian Institute for the Blind, Kansas City Chiefs Foundation, Boston Red Sox Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Foundation, Arizona Humane Society, and many others.

We are disrupting the fundraising model by helping charitable organizations, raise funds by using our electronic raffle solutions, raise recurring donations, build on their donor datasets, build deeper engagement from their donor databases, and achieve record donor revenues.

As a leading provider of strategy and technology for 50/50 raffles, sweepstakes, and Catch the Ace raffles, we’ve helped over 500 charitable organizations raise over $1 billion on our platform to date, and we’re only just getting started.

At Ascend FS, we’re not just keeping pace with the dynamic collegiate sports industry—we’re setting the pace. Our innovative ChangeIt platform is reshaping how NIL collectives harness fan memberships to drive revenue, and we need a visionary to amplify our impact

AscendFS is committed to building and preserving an open, inclusive, and healthy work environment. We welcome all applicants to apply to join our team. We accommodate people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process and applicants are encouraged to advise Human Resources in advance if an accommodation is required. We thank you for your interest in working at AscendFS and we will contact those qualified to continue in the recruitment process.

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