Graphic Designer

Spud is looking for a Graphic Designer to help create innovative and striking creative assets that support our marketing efforts, increase sales, and engage customers across all areas of our business. This is a hybrid role with a preference for the successful candidate to be based in Calgary, AB.  

Spud is a Western Canadian online grocery delivery business comprised of a passionate team who believe that food touches every aspect of our lives, so we are advocates for sustainable farming practices, sourcing locally, treating animals humanely, and reducing food waste. We also operate our retail markets Be Fresh, Organic Acres, and Blush Lane.

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Produce and maintain ads for publications across Blush Lane, SPUD & Be Fresh. 

• Ensure that design aligns with the established look and feel and stays fresh every week.

• Ensure designs are consistent across all print ads and are in line with the current campaigns/themes Marketing is promoting.

• Be part of the design team for all general design & print requests including supporting our office team, events team, community, warehouse, HR, Blush Lane, and keeping our brands consistent.

• Maintain processes in regard to concept development, design, and delivery. This will mean working with a number of people to help you produce and meet your deadlines.

• Support the team throughout the execution of campaigns and projects. This will include online and offline assets.

• Share inspiration, discuss trends, and identify and address process improvements pertaining to creative tasks by participating in our weekly creative collaborations.

• Help maintain design consistency by documenting, when appropriate, in a mini-creative guide.

• Follow Brand Guide, but also able to inform and evolve our brand standards through a creative lens.

• Stay on top of trends and innovations in design.

• Keep on top of new tools in Adobe Creative suite.

• Communicate with the Creative Director regarding any creative challenges and for feedback on new creative concepts for approvals.

• Liaise effectively with clients and other team members on creative briefs.

• Ensure all design produced meets the needs, requirements, and brand values. This may mean getting comfortable in questioning a brief and inputting/sharing ideas of ways to better meet the requirements outlined.

• Be responsible for helping to keep the new design process in place.

• Additional duties as required.

• Completion of a formal graphic design program.

• 2+ years of experience in graphic design for print and web.

• Experience with producing simple animations is considered an asset.

• You’re a rock star in Adobe Creative Suite primarily using Photoshop, Illustrator, XD and a bit of InDesign. Experience with Adobe Premiere is considered an asset.

• Do you have a passion for food and photography? As a part of your job you may need to collaborate with our in-house photographer to create mood boards for custom photography for our campaign and marketing needs.

• Some pre-press experience is valuable.

• May require some collaboration with our UX designers.

• Ability to manage your own workload and priorities to meet our deadlines.

SPUD's approach to inclusive hiring

SPUD's family of companies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which celebrates the diversity found within our teams. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented communities, including women, Indigenous Peoples, members of the LGBTQ2+ community, people of colour, and people with disabilities, to consider applying. We know from experience that great talent comes in many forms, and we want to meet you at your best! Please let us know if we can provide unique accommodations that will enable your equal participation!

Our Values

Our values are more than just words to us. Our values drive our success and guide our growth:

• Create amazing customer experiences. We are passionate in our commitment to deliver for our customers.

• Lead with sustainability and consider our impact.

• Learn, grow and make time to celebrate wins together.

• We welcome different perspectives. Diversity makes us stronger.

• Prioritize, work smart and deliver results for our stakeholders and each other.

• We are committed to our mission and that requires resilience, persistence and grit to persevere and succeed.