Marketing Designer (12-Month Contract)

Marketing Designer (12-month Contract) 

The salary range for this role begins at $51,425 and will be determined based on experience and qualifications. 

Changing the world, one book at a time.  

As a team of dedicated book-loving professionals, we discover, shape, and share content that nurtures thoughts, dreams, and conversations around the globe, ensuring that both new and established voices are heard. 

We are looking for a highly creative and versatile Marketing Designer to join our Marketing team on a 12-month contract. 

Do you have an instinct for visual design and an understanding of how to use tailored creative to engage with different audiences? Are you passionate about storytelling and bringing a marketing message to life across a wide range of formats and channels? Do you thrive on finding creative solutions to projects?  

If this describes you, consider joining us on an exciting journey as we write new chapters of Penguin Random House Canada’s story through visual design and reader connection. 

Your contribution to the story: 

At Penguin Random House Canada, our team of Marketing Designers work to ensure our books, authors, and brands are represented with the strongest visual marketing campaigns. Reporting to the Director, Integrated Marketing, you will work among a team that supports marketing, sales, publicity, and publishing, to build materials that complement and promote our full range of books and campaigns. 

What you’ll do: 

• In collaboration with the marketing team, design eye-catching and on-brand creative solutions for our books, authors, campaigns and events that attract our targeted audiences. 

• Develop a deep understanding of our audiences and create compelling and insights-driven design that speaks to our various segments of readers. 

• Expertly adapt your creative direction for multiple formats and channels, with an understanding of how audiences engage with and are influenced by content across mediums (i.e. web, social, email, print, animated video, sales assets, retailer assets). 

• Design and maintain company initiatives such as catalogues, presentations, and brochures to ensure impactful creative that positively reflects our company, titles and authors. 

• Work on multiple projects across teams, bringing your ability to interpret a creative brief, collaborate on a creative strategy and approach, and adapt your work with feedback from the team. 

• Follow brand standards and ensure consistency and harmony across reader touchpoints. 

• Bring your knowledge, design thinking and creativity to the team, along with a continued drive for self-improvement, staying on top of current trends and your personal development. 

Experience and knowledge you’ll bring (qualifications):   

• 3-5 years’ experience working in a graphic design role in either an agency or in-house setting. 

• Deep understanding and experience working with standard design tools (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects). 

• Experience collaborating closely with colleagues across a variety of functions to create impactful creative approaches that best reflect our authors and titles, and attract readers to our stories. 

• Demonstrated experience in cross-channel marketing design and a firm understanding of print as well as digital design. 

• Comfort identifying and implementing the best design solution for a deliverable—whether through balanced page design, bespoke illustration, or scroll-stopping motion design.

• Detail-oriented with exceptional time management and organizational skills. 

• Ability to effectively articulate design decisions to team members across different job functions. 

• Strong organizational and time management skills to effectively prioritize objectives and meet deadlines.

• A proactive mindset coupled with an ability to work both independently and as part of a larger team.   

• An inclusive approach, supported by cultural competency and a proven ability to collaborate with people from across a wide range of diverse backgrounds. 

• Enhanced knowledge, awareness, and experience with the culture and history of any community that has faced marginalization is considered a plus. 

• And of course, a deep passion for books!

We are actively seeking to add team members from communities with lived experiences of marginalization and underrepresentation. We respect and value each individual and their lived experiences and are committed to creating a more diverse team and establishing a culture of belonging. If you self-identify as Black, Indigenous, a person of colour, a member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community or another marginalized group, we strongly encourage you to apply.   

This role will work at least three days per week from our Toronto office located at 320 Front Street West. As such, we require candidates to reside within commuting distance of our office. 

Please apply with your portfolio, resume and cover letter by Friday, February 28, 2025. Please be kindly advised that incomplete applications may not be considered. We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. 

Please contact Human Resources at hrcanada@penguinrandomhouse.com or 416-364-4449 if you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies. 

Company: Penguin Random House Canada Limited 

Country: Canada 

State/Region: Ontario 

City: Toronto 

Postal Code: M5V3B6 

Job ID: 277587