Designer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$65K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end social content creation process, from ideation to production across multiple formats, leveraging AI tools to accelerate ideas and stay ahead of platform trends.

  • Lead social-first concepts for multiple platforms
  • Oversee fast-turnaround production with design craft
  • Collaborate with partners and use generative AI to explore ideas

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Concept social-first ideas, the kind that are genuinely remarkable and platform-native
  • Create social content across a range of media types, including motion design, short-form video editing, graphic design, photography, and other formats as needed
  • When appropriate, bring high design craft to fast-turnaround work: strong typography, composition, and visual polish, even under tight timelines
  • Use generative AI tools (image, video, audio) to accelerate production and explore ideas that would otherwise be out of reach on a social timeline
  • Apply text-based AI to speed up ideation, captioning, and trend research
  • Collaborate with creative partners to pitch and sketch out post concepts and get them sold
  • Stay ahead of trends and formats, identifying what makes contextual sense for each client and platform
  • Be a vocal, contributing member of the CM Social Team who openly shares ideas and feedback

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience creating content, in whole or in part, on behalf of brand or media social accounts
  • Multi-hyphenate capabilities across ideation, graphic design, photography, and video editing
  • Conceptual range: the ability to generate social-first ideas that are genuinely remarkable, not just on-trend
  • High design craft, with a strong eye for typography, composition, and visual polish, applied fast
  • Platform-specific expertise, with a strong understanding of how different platforms work and how to craft ideas that succeed on each
  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma
  • Motion design skills, with the ability to bring graphics and type to life for social formats
  • Video editing skills, comfortable in tools like Premiere, Edits, or CapCut
  • Comfort using generative AI and text-based AI tools as part of your creative process
  • Boundless creative energy and a collaborative spirit — you don’t stop at the first idea, and you keep working with your team until you land on something unique

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience with brand social content creation or publishing
  • Strong presentation abilities
  • Experience delivering creative in restrictive environments (tight legal restrictions, small creative sandboxes, etc.)
  • Experience working with influencers & creators (or experience working as one)
  • An affinity for Instagram and TikTok in particular

Benefits

  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, sick/personal days
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
  • 13 affinity groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts
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Critical Mass is a team of 1,900 inspired folks based in 13 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients. We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

Founded in 1996
Calgary, Alberta, CAN
1.8K employees (728 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
44% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.7%
Direct
41.5%
Referral
6.8%
Social
3.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
347 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
11

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