Sr. Visual Designer

Borrowell • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$100,000 - CA$150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Borrowell is looking for a Senior Visual Designer to elevate our brand and visual language across every channel, touchpoint, and product surface. Reporting to the Manager, Product Design, you will work collaboratively with our Product Design, Marketing, and Lifecycle teams to bring our brand to life across digital touchpoints and elevate our product experience and aesthetic. You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of key projects, work closely with a cross-functional team, bring a strong perspective on crafting premium experiences, and serve as an independent advocate for design standards and craft.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in visual, brand, or graphic design, with strong brand and systems thinking
• A strong portfolio demonstrating depth in visual design fundamentals, typography, colour theory, and layout
• Expertise in Figma, with the ability to organize assets and specs for handoff
• Experience building design systems and scalable design processes
• Solid understanding of email design constraints and marketing asset production
• Deep knowledge of web best practices and how design decisions around images, typography, and layout impact performance and overall user experience
• Comfort working independently and owning a body of work end-to-end
• Strong advocate for great design, with the ability to elevate quality standards while working within deadlines
• Clear, constructive communicator, comfortable giving and receiving design feedback in a collaborative, fast-moving environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing to or leading a design refresh or rebrand at a consumer-facing company
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and how to apply them across different surfaces
• Skills in motion design, animating micro-interactions, or custom illustration
• Experience in implementing visual assets and HTML/CSS in Braze

Responsibilities

• Establish visual quality and brand consistency across in-app UI, emails, marketing site, social media, and other campaigns: building the systems and standards that help everyone at Borrowell ship better design
• Drive strong visual decision-making informed by brand guidelines, industry trends, and accessibility standards
• Champion visual quality across teams, setting design authority and brand enforcement, communicating rationale behind design choices, participating in critiques, and elevating overall visual quality across the company
• Evolve and optimize foundational design standards, including our design system and component library, scaling up from the atomic level: tokens, typography, colour, and icons
• Create reusable frameworks and scalable templates for promotion cards, dashboard placements, hero images, and other graphics
• Support growth experiments, A/B tests, and feature launches with production-quality visual output
• Build and maintain a visual asset library for use in email templates, social graphics, landing page assets, illustrations, and mockups
• Work in close collaboration with Lifecycle and Marketing teams across the creative cycle—from concept and iteration to production and iterative review
• Implement & optimize email templates by establishing a modular content block system across lifecycle and promotional sends
• Elevate our marketing website and landing pages with visual updates that are optimized for impact, collaborating with Engineering and Data teams to implement and track performance metrics

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Benefits - medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists
• Additional Health Benefits - virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors and mental health professionals
• Maternity & Parental Leave Top-up - available to new parents
• WFH Reimbursement - we ship you gear like a laptop, mouse, keyboard, and you can reimburse additional items to make your workplace better for you
• Employee Development Benefit - annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning
• Givewell Benefit - 1 paid volunteer day a year to give back to the community
• Flexibility - flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed