Visual & Interactive Design Specialist

About Kinaxis

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.  

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in Canada. Please note if you are located in Ottawa, Canada you will be required to be in the office 3 days per week in a hybrid schedule

About The Team

The Visual & Interactive Design Specialist supports the creative team in creating visual content for a variety of media and projects. The incumbent will create beautiful, clean and engaging marketing collateral, spanning multiple mediums and platforms, including websites, social channels, landing pages, newsletters/emails, print booklets, event booths with physical signage, videos, presentations and more.

This role is supported by the Creative Senior Manager as a member of the Global Corporate Marketing team at Kinaxis and will act as an instrumental partner in design elements of marketing projects.

What you will do

• Design beautiful, clean and engaging marketing collateral, spanning multiple mediums and platforms, including websites, social channels, landing pages, newsletters/emails, print booklets, event booths with physical signage, videos, presentations and more.
• Proactively drive the evolution of Kinaxis’s brand across all mediums and platforms working closely with the Design, Marketing and all other cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our marketing collaterals are clear, understandable and visually compelling.
• Stay up to date with design trends and best practices
• Closely collaborate with our Creative Team to bring a cohesive brand to the world across all marketing touchpoints with the utmost attention to craft and detail. This includes illustrative, typographic and design compositional craft, and motion graphics.
• Scale the brands guidelines and content clearly, concisely, and fearlessly through existing content and pushing the barriers of where we will be next.
• Provide design feedback and guidance to internal teams as well as partner vendors, agencies on local and global marketing initiatives when needed.
• Partner with other cross functional teams such as Communications, Content, Product, and Events teams to creatively scale out brand moments through content.
• Actively seek and openly receive feedback for your work; Give and solicit feedback and constantly strive for excellence.
  
  

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related field
• Demonstrated experience as a brand designer with 3-4 years' experience either agency, brand or both
• A portfolio site with samples of work along with descriptions of what you contributed to the project
• Articulate, concise, oral, and written communicator with the ability to consider input from others to determine the best course of action
• Use of empathy, literacy, and active listening skills with the ability to provide recommendations and feedback with confidence
• Analytical skills with an inventive approach to work through problems to arrive at well-constructed recommendations
  
  

#Full-time #Intermediate

Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs and training and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons
  
  

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com . Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at [email protected] . This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.