The Senior Creative Engineer is responsible for executing production design deliverables, including creating image assets, resizing display and social media banners, and refreshing digital layouts and templates. The Creative Engineer works as part of a larger team and can handle complex digital production projects efficiently with minimal supervision from either a Senior Creative Engineer or a Creative Engineering Lead. This role also involves managing digital production projects independently.
***Please note this role is in Costa Rica and is not a traditional mechanical or computer engineering role***
Role is on site 3 days per week in Heredia.
You will:
- Independently handle the creation of production design deliverables in the following areas: site/app maintenance, image processing, photo retouching, digital advertising, and deck template creation. The deliverables include (but are not limited to) layout skinning, layout production, red lines, image asset creation, image optimization, image resizing & cropping, photo retouching & photomontage, animated and static online advertising banners and email production, animations, deck, and visual guideline creation, either by creating them from scratch or by following brand guidelines.
- Communicate effectively with creative engineering team members, project managers, creative engineering leads, and clients when required.
- Provide excellent quality assurance on all deliverables.
- Stay up to date with recent design trends and new technologies.
- Maintain a solid working knowledge of the industry's latest design tools, platforms, and technologies.
You have:
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Design, Advertising Design, or related field or equivalent experience in advertising and/or digital agencies or startups.
- 2+ yrs. Experience in advertising agencies, digital agencies, design agencies, and/or startups.
- Photoshop retouching skills
- Experience working in production design teams in the following areas: site/app maintenance, digital marketing, digital animation, and print, preferably for international clients and global brands.
- Experience creating assets for digital products.
- Solid understanding of design principles, trends, and systems.
- Ability to handle complex digital production projects independently.
- Understanding of digital marketing, digital production, and online advertising.
- Understanding and working experience in the field of interactivity and animation.
- Proficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
- Strong knowledge of Keynote, PowerPoint
- Knowledge in Motion Design, After Effects and Adobe Animate (Celtra or Orca Plus)
- Advanced understanding of UI design tools (Figma/Sketch).
- Experience in Paid Ads design, applying UX principles.
- Strong knowledge of productivity tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Experienced in leading creative initiatives.
- Brings a strategic mindset to storytelling, campaign execution, and product design.
- Comfortable working across new business initiatives and translating ideas into scalable solutions.
- Strong communicator with fluency in English, able to collaborate with global teams.
- Passionate about emerging technologies and integrating them into creative strategies.
What We Offer:
- Maternity and parental leave extra days
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
- Access to online services for families and new parents
- Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
- And more…
Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer.
The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com, omc.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.
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If Canada based: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/finance/consumer-affairs.html
If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx
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