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Associate Creative Engineer


Company : Critical Mass


Location : Calgary, Alberta


Created : 2025-10-17


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Overview Our creative engineering team builds scalable frameworks and universal design systems that allow clients to bring campaigns to market with speed and cost-efficiency. These frameworks are adaptable, ensuring clients can use them across multiple projects and optimize their creative efforts, minimizing the need to start from scratch with each campaign. Scalability and Efficiency Through proprietary tools and systems, we scale creative output while maintaining high standards of quality. Our streamlined processes enable clients to move from concept to execution quickly, without sacrificing the creative integrity of their work. Our Intellectual Property (IP) ArtBots IP is at the heart of our ability to merge automation, AI, and creative workflows. Our exclusive tools give clients the ability to scale content, personalize messaging, and optimize deliveryall while maintaining top-tier creative excellence. Key Team Roles Creative Engineering: Our Creative Engineers, led by a Creative Engineering Director, develop the frameworks and systems that allow us to scale content efficiently. They start from design principles and build adaptable, universal systems that ensure client success. Critical Mass delivers a next-gen suite of services for our clients, utilizing dynamic creative optimization to deliver creative engineering, intelligent automation, and technology expertise with a highly scaled operational model for our clients. We are seeking a full time, Creative Engineer to lead as an architect, influencer, and manager within our cutting edge creative automation team. With a holistic view and understanding of an overall campaign/ecosystem, the CE will work with a team of designers to format and build complex creative frameworks to enabled at scale production of content for our global clients. These frameworks will adhere to both best practices and client brand standards. This individual should love data as much as they love good design. The ideal candidate will be excited by the possibilities for innovation found between understanding how data can influence design and how clever design can drive data results. This individual is detail-oriented, organized, and pragmatic. They also live to solve puzzles. Partnering with creative, account, strategy, and media teams, they will use their knowledge of digital platforms to influence test-and-learn approaches and anticipate how creative can be evolved for the better. Responsibilities Collaborate with the Creative Team to bring ideas to life with best practices and brand standards in mind. Collaborate within Critical Mass to build the reputation of ArtBot and educate others on the benefits of a well-considered automation program. Collaborate with other discipline team leads to coordinate their requirements within the system. Collaborate with 3rd party vendors supporting proprietary MarTech efforts. Collaborate with in-house brand studios and their leads. Create scalable programs enabling performance marketing campaigns to scale and be incorporated into testing frameworks. Create business cases when work goes live. Craft compelling stories to support new business and opportunities within the craft. Stay current with the tech stack of design tools, including platforms focused on creative automation and trends in design and advertising. Foster a positive environment where creativity and positivity can flourish daily. Qualifications 0-2 years relevant experience in a high-velocity production studio, digital design production shop, and/or agency organization. Advanced proficiencies in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign; practical knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite ecosystem. Experience in DCO frameworks. Experience building and mentoring highly productive teams. Experience in high-scale output and design with a proven track record driving initiatives. Experience with content-at-scale technologies. Ability to work in a dynamic, fluid, and ever-changing environment. What We Offer Global maternity and parental leave Competitive benefits packages Vacation, compassionate leave, personal/sick days, and flex days Access to online services for families and new parents Early Dismissal Fridays (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday) 13 affinity groups Internal learning and development programs Enterprise-wide employee discounts Our new hires and employees are the future of our organization. We expect team members to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from emails using criticalmass.com, omc.com, or greenhouse-mail.io domains. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send money or provide anything to work for our company. If you believe you are a victim of a scam, review your local government consumer protections guidance and contact them directly. Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf How did you hear about this job? * What city are you permanently located in? * Are you legally authorized to work in the country you are applying for? * Do you need sponsorship now or in the future? * If you will need sponsorship, please explain. What company do you currently work for? * Voluntary Self-Identification At Critical Mass, we are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the communities in which we live and work. Participation in voluntary self-identification questions is encouraged to improve recruitment and diversity efforts. Responses are confidential and stored securely. You may contact for questions about your data. #J-18808-Ljbffr