Senior Brand Designer

About Kindsight:

Kindsight builds technology that helps fundraisers make a difference. For decades, Kindsight has supported the education, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors with fundraising tools and the largest charitable giving database on the market. And as the giving sector evolves, so does Kindsight. As the leader in fundraising intelligence, Kindsight leverages real-time data and AI to help thousands of organizations around the world identify, manage, and engage with donors - at any scale. With purpose-built CRMs that corral all of that donor information and campaign tracking into one place, donor prospect research tools that offer proactive insights and real-time donor intel, and generative AI that creates personalized, meaningful content drafts at scale, Kindsight’s product suite is truly changing the game for donor fundraising.

Position Summary:

Are you a creative visionary with a passion for building brands that stand out? Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy and design, combining big-picture thinking with hands-on execution? If so, we want you to join our team as a Senior Brand Designer!

In this pivotal role, you’ll be the creative steward of our brand, shaping its visual identity and ensuring consistency across all channels. You’ll lead design projects from concept to completion, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and manage external designers—all while rolling up your sleeves to deliver exceptional design work yourself.

This is your chance to make a lasting impact on a growing brand while working in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead creative strategy: Define and drive the creative vision for our brand, ensuring it aligns with business goals and market trends. Own the look and feel of tertiary design languages, including KindCon, the Kindsight community, and our research initiatives, ensuring they reflect and enhance our overarching brand identity.
• Design execution: Create high-quality designs across digital, print, and social media platforms, setting the standard for excellence.
• Brand ownership: Oversee our visual identity, ensuring consistency and innovation across all touchpoints.
• Project management: Handle design asks/briefs as they come in and manage design projects from start to finish, meeting deadlines and staying within budget. In the case of printed materials, this includes the production/pre-press process and preparing files for print.
• Collaborate across teams: Partner with marketing, product, and executive teams to align creative efforts with company objectives.
• Manage external designers: Provide direction and feedback to external creative resources, ensuring their work meets brand standards.
• Present and communicate: Share creative concepts and updates with internal stakeholders, incorporating feedback to refine and elevate designs.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years in graphic design, ideally in B2B SaaS, with at least 2 years in a leadership or creative strategy role.
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, fine arts, marketing, or a related field.
• Mastery in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Figma, Canva and other design tools, including pre-press preparation.
• Proficiency or willingness to learn Premier Pro, After Effects and other motion design tools.
• Proficiency in designing for Google Slides and Powerpoint.
• Advanced knowledge of design principles including typography, composition, color palettes, imagery, and illustration, plus demonstrable knowledge of accessibility design.
• Experience managing external designers or creative vendors.
• A strong portfolio showcasing expertise across various marketing formats—including digital (web, web ads, social), GTM campaigns, ebooks, presentation decks, and print materials.
• Ability to think past the first idea and explore multiple pathways, as well as unique and ownable creative campaigns that reach across all mediums and formats.
• Strong perspective on when and how to use AI, with proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance workflows, generate concepts, and optimize asset production (e.g., prompt-based image generation, generative design tools, AI-assisted video editing).
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Asana experience is a plus. 
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate creative ideas clearly.
• Video editing experience is a plus!

Compensation Range: $120-144,000 CAD OTE, based on experience, market benchmarks and role complexity. We aim to offer fair, competitive pay that reflects your skills and the market.

This advertised position is for an existing vacancy at Kindsight. At Kindsight, we’re proud to be a place where everyone belongs and has an equal opportunity to contribute, thrive and grow. We hire based on skills, potential, and impact, and we believe our differences fuel innovation. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. We’re building a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to do meaningful work and make a difference.

We leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support certain aspects of our recruitment process. These tools may help with resume screening, drafting job descriptions, creating interview questions and occasionally identifying potential candidates. All hiring decisions are made by our people, not AI. Our intent is to use AI thoughtfully to streamline administrative tasks, improve the candidate experience and support fair, unbiased hiring practices consistent with industry standards.