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Wealthsimple, Canada's leading financial innovator serving 4+ million Canadians with $155B+ in assets under administration, is seeking an experienced Associate Creative Director, Art Director to lead innovative, human-centered creative work across integrated brand campaigns.
In this role, you will partner with copywriters, designers, marketers, and engineers to develop and execute creative campaigns from concept through production. You'll own projects of varying scale—from large brand moments to smaller initiatives—balancing multiple concurrent projects while serving as both a hands-on maker and strategic director. Key responsibilities include:
- Developing conceptual ideas and bringing them to life through all production stages
- Providing art direction on visual design for integrated campaigns across film, social, digital, and interactive experiences
- Creating storyboards, comps, and animatics independently
- Using Adobe Creative Suite to deliver production-ready assets and provide direction to studio designers
- Leveraging AI image and video generation tools to prototype ideas, create drafts, mockups, and animatics for faster evaluation
- Presenting work compellingly to internal stakeholders and championing creative vision
- Managing external production partners as needed
- Traveling for production when necessary
Wealthsimple's creative philosophy centers on creating meaningful, innovative work that feels human and authentic—avoiding generic advertising. The company is deeply interested in how humans relate to money and aims to be part of that cultural conversation in novel ways.
The company offers hybrid flexibility (1,500+ employees across North America), 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, unlimited sick/mental health days, 90 days annual work-from-abroad allowance, top-tier health benefits, employer-matched savings, and active employee resource groups.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6–10+ years of experience as an Art Director (agency background preferred but not required)
- Ability to independently concept and art direct, developing storyboards, comps, or animatics without design team assistance
- Extensive integrated campaign experience from strategy through delivery
- Production experience across all platforms: film, digital, social, print
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite; hands-on capability delivering comps, layouts, and assets across all media types
- Familiarity with AI image and video generation tools
- Collaborative creative approach with ability to give and receive constructive feedback respectfully
- Willingness to travel for production
