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Specialist, Design (14 month contract)
full-time•Toronto•CA$59k - CA$109k
About this role
What can you expect in this role?
- Design and produce static and video-based digital advertisements for paid media channels including display, paid social, and programmatic platforms.
- Adapt creative assets for multiple formats, placements, and audience requirements.
- Ensure all deliverables meet brand standards, performance objectives, and channel specifications.
- Develop visual assets for corporate and campaign-driven social media activity.
- Support content calendars through timely delivery of graphics, resized formats, motion assets, and short-form video.
- Maintain consistent brand expression across all social media materials.
- Execute ad hoc design assignments across the organization, including presentations, email graphics, web assets, banners, and other materials as required.
- Perform detailed image editing, including retouching, color correction, and compositing.
- Maintain file management, version control, and adherence to internal production workflows.
- Demonstrate curiosity and openness toward AI-enabled creative tools to enhance efficiency and output quality.
- Stay informed on emerging design technologies and propose opportunities to integrate new tools into existing processes.
- Utilize Jira to manage tasks, track progress, and ensure timely delivery of all creative outputs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to clarify requirements, prioritize workloads, and communicate project status.
What do you bring to the role?
- 3+ years of professional experience in graphic design, digital design, or related creative discipline.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and video tools such as Premiere Pro or After Effects.
- Demonstrated experience producing digital advertisements across static and video formats.
- Strong portfolio showcasing digital design capabilities, visual problem‑solving, and attention to detail.
- Experience creating assets for social media platforms.
- Familiarity with project tracking tools such as Jira.
- Strong understanding of layout, typography, color theory, and brand systems.
- Experience utilizing AI creative tools (or a strong curiosity to explore!)
- Knowledge of motion graphics and basic animation principles.
- Experience working within complex brand guidelines or multi-channel marketing environments.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in fast-paced environments.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and openness to learning new tools, technologies, and design approaches.
Salary Range: $59,300 - $109,200
Actual salary for the role may vary depending on work location of the successful candidate and other factors including but not limited to, skills, education, experience, working conditions and the local labour market.
This position is being posted to fill an existing vacancy.
We also take potential into consideration. If you don’t have this exact experience, but you know you have what it takes, be sure to give us more insight through your application and cover letter.
Our inclusive work environment welcomes diversity and supports accessibility. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know by contacting [email protected].
Background checks
This role requires successful clearance of a background check (including criminal checks and leadership references).
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Sonnet is part of Definity, which includes some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We can’t do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.
We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It’s better here.
What you'll do
- The specialist will design and produce digital advertisements for various media channels and adapt creative assets for different formats and audience requirements. They will also maintain brand consistency across social media materials and execute ad hoc design assignments as needed.
About Definity Insurance Company
Definity Financial Corporation is the parent company to some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative property and casualty insurance brands and companies, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. We focus on making insurance better for our customers, our employees, our broker partners, and our communities.
Our promise to employees is to provide a workplace that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering. Our inclusive environment provides the space to innovate with colleagues and implement even better ways of doing things. We invest in our employees’ growth and development and help them thrive. With our flexible, hybrid work arrangements, total rewards packages, company share ownership program, and emphasis on work-life balance, it’s better here.
If you’re looking for a career where your perspective and expertise are valued, you’ll find it here at Definity.
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La Société financière Definity est la société mère de compagnies d’assurance de dommages parmi les plus établies et innovatrices au Canada, soit Assurance Economical, Sonnet Assurance, Family Insurance Solutions et la Compagnie d’assurance Petline. Definity est dévouée à faire évoluer l’assurance pour sa clientèle, ses équipes, son réseau de courtage et ses communautés.
Nous promettons de fournir un environnement de travail collaboratif, ambitieux, valorisant et stimulant. Notre environnement inclusif vous permet d’innover avec vos collègues et de mettre en œuvre de meilleures façons de travailler. Nous investissons dans la croissance et le perfectionnement de nos gens et les aidons à s’épanouir. Grâce à nos options flexibles de travail hybride, notre programme de rémunération globale, notre régime d’actionnariat et l’accent sur l’équilibre travail-famille, vous évoluerez avec nous.
Si vous souhaitez une carrière où votre point de vue sera reconnu, ne cherchez pas plus loin que Definity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Definity Insurance Company pay for a Specialist, Design (14 month contract)?
Definity Insurance Company offers a competitive compensation package for the Specialist, Design (14 month contract) role. The salary range is CAD 59k - 109k per year. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.
What does a Specialist, Design (14 month contract) do at Definity Insurance Company?
As a Specialist, Design (14 month contract) at Definity Insurance Company, you will: the specialist will design and produce digital advertisements for various media channels and adapt creative assets for different formats and audience requirements. They will also maintain brand consistency across social media materials and execute ad hoc design assignments as needed..
Is the Specialist, Design (14 month contract) position at Definity Insurance Company remote?
The Specialist, Design (14 month contract) position at Definity Insurance Company is based in Toronto, Canada. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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