Brand Designer

✨ About The Company

Makeship empowers influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their products to life through our community-powered crowdfunding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing.

We're profitable, we have a three-year revenue growth of over 200%, ranking us 97th in 2024 and 86th on The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies of 2025 list. In 2025 alone, our sales exceeded $65M CAD. We are proud to be Great Place to Work-Certified™ for three years in a row! Learn more about us at Makeship.com.

🧑‍💻 About the Role

During this exciting phase of our growth, you’ll play a huge role in shaping our culture, our process, and the future of Makeship. Every day, you’ll collaborate, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work impact the company and the community!

We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we’ll pay you well, offer great benefits, invest deeply in your growth, and welcome you with our branded swag. You will also be joining one of Canada's fastest-growing start-ups!

🌟 What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Brand Designer who loves both art and outcomes. You’ll work at the intersection of brand, storytelling, and performance, translating business and campaign goals into cohesive, multi-channel creative that drives results across paid media, email, social, web, and creator campaigns.

You’ll play a meaningful role in shaping how Makeship shows up in the world - not just how things look, but how stories are told, how campaigns perform, and how fans connect with our brand and the creators we partner with.

We’re looking for someone who doesn’t just deliver assets, but thinks in campaigns, systems, and iterations. Someone who understands that great creative earns attention and earns fans.

You’ll collaborate closely with Growth, Digital Marketing, and Creative partners, mentor designers through craft and example, and help raise the creative bar across the organization.

🚀 Your Key Responsibilities

Campaign & Creative Execution

• Translate business and campaign goals into cohesive, multi-channel creative systems that perform across paid, email, and social.
• Lead creative execution for campaigns from concept through launch, ensuring strong storytelling and consistency across channels.
• Design and deliver intentional creative variants (typically 2–3 per concept) to support testing, iteration, and learning.
• Apply a channel-aware mindset, adapting creative to the nuances of paid media, email, organic social, and creator-led content.
• Act as a campaign-level quality bar, ensuring work shipped is on-brand, thoughtful, and executionally excellent.

Brand, Storytelling & Performance

• Ensure visual and verbal cohesion, collaborating with copy partners so art and words work together in service of the brand.
• Use performance insights and campaign data to inform creative decisions and continuously improve output.
• Balance brand-building with performance needs, creating work that both converts and builds long-term brand equity.
• Elevate both the Makeship brand and our creator/partner brands, ensuring each campaign strengthens both.

Systems, Collaboration & Mentorship

• Support the development of scalable campaign frameworks and visual systems that can be scaled and evolved over time.
• Create storyboards, mood boards, and visual narratives that bring campaign ideas to life.
• Partner closely with Growth, Digital, and Brand leadership to align creative output with acquisition, engagement, and retention goals.
• Occasionally lead creative reviews or workshops focused on campaign thinking, testing, and brand craft.

🧠 What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in brand, campaign, or marketing design (in-house or agency).
• A portfolio that demonstrates campaign thinking, not just individual assets.
• Strong visual design fundamentals with excellent taste and attention to detail.
• Comfort working with performance data and campaign results to inform creative decisions (you care whether creative works).
• Experience collaborating closely with Growth, Digital Marketing, and/or Performance teams.
• A strong point of view on how brand and performance intersect.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and evolving briefs in a fast-paced environment.

Tools & Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Figma (layout systems, components, handoff)
• Motion tools (After Effects / Premiere) are a strong asset
• Experience designing for paid media, lifecycle marketing, and digital performance environments

👀 Bonus

• Creator-driven, entertainment, or community-led brands
• E-commerce or product storytelling experience
• Familiarity with experimentation or creative testing environments
• A passion for creating video assets

💪 This Role Is a Great Fit If You…

• Care deeply about whether creative actually performs, not just how it looks.
• Enjoy iteration, testing, and revisiting work to make it better.
• Like shaping solutions, not waiting for perfect briefs.
• Want meaningful ownership and influence without people management.
• Believe great brands are built through consistency, clarity, and momentum over time.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• Work remotely anywhere in Toronto and/or access any of our hubs
• Health and dental benefits from day 1
• 4 weeks of paid vacation (including paid time off on your birthday)
• An additional 1 week of paid time off during the winter holidays
• Virtual & In-Person Social Events
• Annual Paid Volunteer Day Off
• 1:1 RRSP Matching Program Up to 3%
• $500 Pre-Tax Annual Health & Wellness Allowance
• $400 Pre-Tax Home Office Setup Allowance
• $65 Pre-Tax Monthly Phone Allowance
• Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up Program
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Program
• Tenured Rewards Program

Salary Band: $75,000-$85,000k CAD per annum. Individual salaries will be dependent on unique skills, experience and _qualifications.

__Vacancy Status: Existing vacancy

_At Makeship, we are committed to fostering an environment that welcomes people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We are passionate about building an equitable and inclusive culture for our unique and diverse team of employees, which makes us Makeship. As an equal-opportunity employer, we value and embrace everyone's opinions and differences, and actively seek new Makeshippers who will work respectfully with our team, propelling our company and the community forward. If there are any accommodations we can provide to make your interview experience more accessible and inclusive, please let us know in your application.