Graphic Design Intern / Contract Designer
About The Position
Nanoleaf is seeking a Graphic Design Intern or Contract Designer to support the Graphic Designer and marketing team with day-to-day creative production. This role focuses on digital content creation, including website banners, homepage graphics, email newsletter assets, social media graphics, product listing visuals, and promotional campaign materials. The ideal candidate will help bring Nanoleaf campaigns to life by creating clean, on-brand, production-ready assets across digital channels. This is a hybrid role requiring two days a week in the Toronto office, and the candidate must be local to the GTA or able to commute to the Toronto HQ. The role reports to Nanoleaf’s Graphic Designer and works closely with the marketing team on digital content, campaign creative, and production design tasks. This is a great opportunity for a junior designer, recent graduate, or early-career freelancer seeking hands-on experience with a global consumer technology brand.
Requirements
- Portfolio showing digital design, web graphics, email, social media, or marketing content work
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Familiarity with Figma
- Strong eye for layout, typography, composition, and visual hierarchy
- Attention to detail and ability to follow brand guidelines
- Ability to manage multiple creative tasks and deadlines
- Positive, collaborative attitude and willingness to learn
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing email newsletter graphics
- Familiarity with Shopify or e-commerce content
- Basic understanding of digital asset specifications and responsive design
- Experience with motion graphics, GIFs, or short-form animated content
- Interest in smart home, consumer tech, interior design, or lifestyle branding
- Mandarin Chinese language skills are an asset but not required
Responsibilities
- Design homepage banners, website graphics, landing page visuals, and promotional content.
- Support updates to digital campaign assets across Nanoleaf’s website and e-commerce channels.
- Resize, adapt, and optimize assets for different web placements and formats.
- Assist with Shopify-related visual content updates where needed.
- Create graphics for email newsletters, product launches, promotions, and seasonal campaigns.
- Adapt campaign visuals into multiple dimensions and formats.
- Ensure email and digital assets are visually consistent, clear, and on-brand.
- Create social media graphics, paid media assets, display ads, and partner marketing visuals.
- Repurpose existing creative into platform-specific formats.
- Support quick-turnaround content requests for marketing campaigns.
- Prepare, organize, and export design files for internal and external use.
- Retouch, crop, resize, and format product images as needed.
- Maintain organized working files and follow naming/versioning conventions.
- Help keep Nanoleaf’s internal image and asset library organized.
- Work within Nanoleaf’s visual identity and brand guidelines.
- Support the Graphic Designer in maintaining consistent design, tone, and layout across channels.
- Review assets carefully for alignment, spacing, typography, and visual accuracy before delivery.
Benefits
- Be part of a company and brand with global impact
- Work on real marketing campaigns across web, email, social, and retail channels
- Build your portfolio with digital and e-commerce creative work
- Learn from experienced creative and marketing team members
- Be part of a collaborative, fast-paced, and design-driven environment
- Centrally located office in downtown Toronto, steps from Union Station & TTC
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
