Senior Graphic Designer (contract)

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.

Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!

About Shakepay

Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future.

We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.

Senior Graphic Designer

We’re looking for a senior-level Graphic Designer to bring the Shakepay brand to life across everything we do - from campaigns and social to motion and illustration. You’ll help define and evolve our visual language while creating bold, expressive work that connects with our community and reflects our values.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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.

Who we’re looking for:

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

Why join us?

• 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.

Perks And Benefits

• 🤝 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.

We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply.

We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.

Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.