Associate Creative Director, Art Director

Build something people loveWealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $169 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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At Wealthsimple, we're interested in humans and money — and the complicated ways humans feel about money. Our goal in the creative department is to be a part of that conversation in meaningful ways that are completely innovative and new. We have a deep aversion to making things that already exist and to ads that feel like ads.

We are looking for an experienced Associate Creative Director, Art Director to help us create innovative, human and ridiculously entertaining work. In this role you will often work as a team with a copywriter partner, but you’ll also collaborate with designers, writers, marketers and engineers across the org. You will be responsible for all aspects of creative development and production on integrated brand campaigns and projects large and small, and you will be leading creative voice in some of our biggest brand moments.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Be a highly conceptual thinker with strong storytelling and design skills.

• Develop big ideas and bring them to life through every stage of production.

• Own large and small brand projects and campaigns from kickoff to completion, often balancing multiple projects at once.

• Be a maker-owner, but also a director-delegator, and find the right balance between those two roles for each project.

• Provide art direction on visual design for integrated brand campaigns and projects of various scales and types – from film, social, digital, to interactive experiences.

• Be a creative and strategic thinker who can see how creativity can solve business problems.

• Use AI in a variety of ways. Whether it’s moving ideas into functional prototypes, drafts, mockups or animatics that can be evaluated more quickly, or developing and refining AI workflows for internally created assets.

• Present work in a clear, passionate and dynamic way, championing the creative and vision to internal stakeholders.

• Manage relationships with outside production partners when necessary.

Skills You Bring

• 6-10+ years of experience as an Art Director (agency experience preferred, but not necessary).

• Ability to concept and art direct, developing storyboards, comps or animatics without assistance from the Design team

Extensive experience with integrated campaigns, from strategic development
through creative development and delivery

• Production experience across all platforms - film, digital, social, and print

Well-versed in Adobe Creative Suite and able to be a hands-on creative delivering
comps, layouts, and assets across all media types as well as give direction to studio
designers where applicable

• Familiarity with AI image and video generation tools.

• A truly collaborative creative approach.

• Give and receive constructive feedback in a respectful manner

• Travel for production when necessary.

Why Wealthsimple?🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance

📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business

🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year*

✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year*

👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS

🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,5...