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Digital Designer (Full-Time, Remote)

Foresight Canada is a growing organization with an exciting mission: accelerating the growth and impact of cleantech ecosystems across Canada. We bring together industry, government, academia, investors, and innovators together to address today’s most urgent climate issues. We are seeking a senior digital designer to join our team and help elevate our audience’s experience across our web and various digital channels. The ideal candidate should be able to efficiently combine creativity, functionality, and technology to produce eye-catching and informative visuals.

We are searching for a creative digital designer to develop online content and maintain a smooth user interface for our website. As one of two members of our design team, you will use your UX skills and produce content that aligns with our brand and strategy. This content includes conversion-centric landing pages, advertisements, print layout for digital reports and whitepapers, along with multimedia for social and other promotional channels.

With some experience in analytics, heat mapping, and other conversion rate optimization tools, you’ll work with the wider marketing team to test and optimize user journeys to increase engagement and grow our audience.

Exceptional technical skills, the ability to manage your time and schedule easily, and a genuine interest in our brand and our mission are essential in this role.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build a brand experience across all digital channels, including web, mobile, landing pages, social media platforms and marketing campaigns
• Use your analytical skills and available data to research customer behaviours to improve and create mock-ups for future designs
• Stay abreast of digital trends, including new design technologies and software applications
• Design and develop homepages, landing pages, and email concepts
• Create digital assets (infographics, social media templates, landing pages, isometrics, whitepapers, and reports) for a range of platforms
• Collaborate with the marketing team to ensure that our branding is consistent and in line with Foresight’s voice, tone and personality
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver designs that are creative, useful, and align with technical and brand standards

Qualifications

• Experience working in a collaborative team environment
• 5+ years of proven work experience in a similar role
• Strong portfolio showing the breadth of digital design capabilities
• Excellent organizational and technical skills
• Working knowledge of CSS and HTML a bonus
• Strong knowledge of current digital design best practices and web production techniques
• Expertise with standard digital design tools, including Canva, inDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, InVision, etc
• Photo and video editing expertise

Job Type: Full-Time, Remote

Rate: $62,000-$68,0000 per annum + benefits (key is best git and experience for role)

About Foresight

Foresight is Canada's cleantech accelerator. In collaboration with our Helix 5 collaborators - innovators, industry, investors, government, and academia. Foresight is relentlessly driving cleantech innovation in Canada. Our audacious goal is that Canada be the first G7 country to reach net zero. Our mission is to accelerate the growth and impact of cleantech ecosystem across Canada to achieve deep decarbonization and net zero climate targets through problem-driven innovation.

Since inception in 2013, Foresight has made a meaningful impact in the cleantech innovation ecosystem. We have supported 890+ ventures in our accelerator programs, 150+ industry partners through our industry programs, and 300+ investor firms through our various access to capital programs. Foresight’s leadership has helped secure $1.31 billion in capital, $390 million revenues, and 7,150+ high-paying jobs for our ventures with an economic impact of over $2+ billion. Our domestic and international engagement includes collaboration with 2,000+ stakeholders and partners. We have a strong history of strategy, ecosystem mapping, and partnership building that positions Canada as a global leader in cleantech innovation.

We strongly encourage applications with the experience and skills for the position from diverse backgrounds and communities to apply! We also invite interested individuals to reach out with any questions or requests for accommodation through the application or interview process.

The team at Foresight is passionate about solving pressing environmental problems and bringing transformative technologies to market. Apply online today to join this dynamic team.