Senior Graphic Designer

Summary

Join Shakepay, a company revolutionizing financial services in Canada, as a Senior Graphic Designer. You will design across various formats, expand the visual world through original illustration, create motion content, and collaborate with marketing and product teams. The role requires evolving the visual identity, building scalable design systems, and using data-driven insights to enhance creative work. Shakepay offers a collaborative environment, opportunities for growth, and a chance to impact millions of Canadians. The company provides competitive benefits, including stock options, health and dental coverage, remote work options, a professional development budget, generous vacation time with a bonus for using it all, parental leave top-up, and team-building activities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in graphic design with a strong portfolio in illustration, animation, and brand creative
• Skilled in Figma, Adobe CC, After Effects (or equivalent)
• Strong visual instincts (layout, color, typography) with a feel for what resonates online
• Open-minded, collaborative, and great at receiving and giving thoughtful feedback
• Self-directed, but energized by jamming with others and building something meaningful

Responsibilities

• Design across formats: Social, digital ads, landing pages, emails, merch, events, and more
• Expand our visual world through original illustration - building on our playful brand universe while exploring new directions
• Create motion content for campaigns, product explainers, and UI polish (After Effects or equivalent)
• Collaborate with marketing and product to concept and ship impactful creative that meets brand and business goals
• Stretch the brand: Evolve our visual identity while maintaining clarity and consistency across all customer touchpoints
• Build scalable systems: Develop design templates and frameworks to support internal teams
• Design with insight: Evolve creative based on audience feedback and performance data - keeping the work sharp and effective

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus: you care about bitcoin, Canadian culture, or building consumer fintech products

Benefits

• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time
• Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues gaining traction, our growth potential is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians
• Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! Our programs encourage continuous learning, growth, and development
• Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from
• Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation
• Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments
• Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts
• Remote-friendly : Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
• Level Up : A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth
• Time off : 20 days of vacation per year. We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time
• Parental leave : Enjoy a parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks
• Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other