Senior Designer
Full time, 18 month maternity leave replacement
Posted: November 25, 2025
Application Deadline: December 7, 2025, 11pm
Anticipated start date is early February, 2026.
The Fit
You’re equal parts strategic and creative.
You love design, but you also love what design makes possible. You’re energized by the challenge of turning research or positioning into creative concepts that are not only visually compelling, but impactful and results-driven.
You work well in a team and enjoy collaboration and iteration. You care about process as much as final output. You’re generous with ideas and comfortable building on someone else’s direction or leading with your own. You embrace constructive feedback and are able to move through ambiguity to find new solutions. You are able to meet deadlines and are able to balance shifting priorities.
You are able to speak to your ideas, and interface well with clients. You design from a lens of meaning and purpose, not just aesthetics. You see design as a tool for communication, clarity, influence and connection.
And you’ve been doing it long enough to have strong instincts about what works and why, with the technical skills to back it up.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.
The Role
The Senior Designer shapes the visual expression of projects across a wide range of clients and sectors. You’ll be responsible for exploring and developing concepts across various mediums and platforms, ultimately transforming them into compelling and effective creative. This includes but is not limited to visual brand development, campaign design and execution across both digital and print mediums, layout and signage design, and package design.
You will be responsible for maintaining the visual integrity and standards of various brands, ensuring they are not only upheld, but used properly to design and produce cohesive visual assets.
You will effectively communicate with both your internal team, and external clients and vendors. This includes presenting any design concepts with clarity and confidence, co-ordinating print and production in a way that aligns with our standards of excellence, and ensuring you are representing the sagecomm brand with integrity in every interaction.
You’ll collaborate closely with designers and digital specialists on a team led by our Creative Director. You’ll also partner with strategists, writers, and client managers to ensure design is aligned with strategy, grounded in insight and delivered with precision, and on time. You’ll help translate ideas into finished products that perform, persuade and resonate.
This role requires both artistry and strategic execution, from early-stage discovery through to final production.
The Responsibilities
Design + Execution
- Translate research, insight and strategy into visual directions and concepts
- Understand the importance of strategy-first design and intentionally approaches all work from this lens
- Explore design possibilities and iterate collaboratively
- Can follow and adhere to various brand guidelines, and standards both internal and external
- Aware of accessibility standards and keeps them at the forefront of their design approach
- Develop various assets, including but not limited to digital campaigns, presentations, social media, emails, reports, signage, packaging etc.
- Liaise with vendors and properly prepare artwork for print production and digital distribution
- Ensure consistency and excellence in design and production across all deliverables
- Develop potent brand identities and effective visual systems for brands across varying sectors
- Maintain fidelity to both internal and external brand standards
Collaboration + Communication
- Work closely with the Creative Director to execute the vision at hand
- Collaborate closely with the digital and design team as well as with our marketing specialists and strategists to ensure a cohesive and effective end-results
- Present work with clarity, supporting your decisions in ways that build understanding, show purpose and reflect intentional, researched-backed design
- Provide constructive feedback to others and integrate feedback into your work
- Contribute to a positive, open, creative culture
- Manage overlapping priorities with the ability to pivot as required
- Manage time effectively to ensure all deadlines are met with quality work delivered
- Up to date on industry trends and bringing research into your work
Culture + Other Duties As Required
- Support internal projects, social content, team events and operations as needed
- Embrace internal systems that support collaboration, workflow and accountability
Bonus Points
The following are not required but if they’re skills you have, we want to know!
- Motion design
- Strong video editing skills
- Photography/Videography skills
- Familiarity with planning photo and video shoots and comfortable being on-site
- Social Media Monitoring
- Reporting & Analytics Assistance (pulling data from social platforms and Google, helping track KPI’s or campaign performance trends, etc)
The Relationships
Reports to – Creative Director
Works with – Strategists, writers, client leads, digital specialists, production partners, contract designers and clients
Skills and Expertise
- 5+ years of progressive experience in a design or creative environment
- Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects) and Canva.
- Proficiency in other design software, such as Figma is an asset but not a requirement.
- Strong understanding of typography, colour theory, design systems and principals
- Experience across digital and print production, including artwork preparation and pre-press
- Ability to work across creative disciplines (digital, UX/UI, traditional, content-driven design)
- Capacity to translate research, insights or briefs into clear concepts and design directions
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback with ease and integrate it effectively back into the work
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate the “why” behind design choices
- Ability to manage multiple projects with shifting priorities
- Confidence with balancing creating thoughtful design while balancing quick turnarounds
- Experience with motion graphics is an asset but not required
- Photo/Video Editing
- Comfort with light, design-focused copywriting or editing when needed
Above all, a commitment to excellence on behalf of brands, causes and communities you serve
How We Work
You might be the person we are looking for if:
- you enjoy both independent creation and collaborative problem solving
- you want to contribute to organizations tackling meaningful challenges
- you want flexibility and the ability to blend life with work in a healthy way
- you see remote-first as freedom supported by intentional moments of connection
Remote First
At sagecomm, remote-first means flexibility, balance and wellness supported by intentional relationship-building. It gives you the autonomy to structure your work in the way that helps you thrive, along with regular team connection in our modern downtown office.
Total Compensation Philosophy
Compensation at sagecomm includes salary, benefits, flexible time off, team experiences and professional development. Our philosophy is built on fairness, transparency, market benchmarking and equity. Our team enjoys:
- Three weeks vacation starting day one
- Winter holiday shutdown
- Long-weekend Fridays (May–September)
- Seven personal health days
- Premium home office setup and enhancement budgets
- Annual learning budget
- Spiritual day, volunteer day
- Culture coach, team celebrations, life-event recognition
- Flexible scheduling and life-friendly work rhythms
Salary range shared at the first interview stage.
Our Commitment to Equity and Diversity
sagecomm welcomes applications from all qualified folx. We are committed to employment equity and diversity in our workplace and welcome applications from, but not limited to, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, Indigenous persons, persons with any sexual orientation and persons of any gender identity or expression. If you require any special accommodations throughout the recruitment process, please let us know as you apply. While we absolutely do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or family status, we’re constantly striving to do better than that. Because ensuring equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation isn’t a destination, it’s an ongoing journey. We care about your talents, your passions, and how you treat those around you. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.
Empathy first.
Empathy second.
Work third.
Since 2008 sagecomm has supported brands, causes and movements across North America with market research and careholder engagement, marketing-communications and brand strategy, public relations and issue management, and range of creative and digital implementation services. Our clients span a range of sectors, including health care, legal and educational leaders, tourism and economic development agencies, commercial food service and hospitality, growing small and medium sized enterprises in technology, finance, food and beverage, business consulting and insurance; and public and nonprofit organizations who are tackling some of Canada’s most pressing social issues.
100% of our business is repeat and referral.
100% of sagecomm clients said they would refer us to their peers/professional colleagues.
And, we were named one of London Inc’s Best Places to Work in both 2020 and 2021.
