Career Opportunity: Advertising Designer
Three years ago, the Adster team set a lofty goal: build 10 dream jobs for passionate people in the digital marketing industry. We continue to grow… are you ready to build your dream job with us?
Position: Advertising Designer
Hours: Full-time
Salary: $55,000/year to $69,000/year (negotiable based on skill set and years of experience)
Deadline: Open
Some of the questions that may be asked will include your level of comfort and examples of the following:
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Create digital advertising assets and visual content for Google, Meta, and LinkedIn campaigns
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Design graphics and layout templates using tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI-based platforms
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Collaborate with marketing strategists to develop creative direction and visuals aligned with brand guidelines
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Assist in designing landing pages, email templates, and web layouts for digital campaigns
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Interpret performance data to iterate on ad design effectiveness
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Maintain consistency in visual branding across all client and internal campaigns
Software & Tools: Canva, GPT-based image tools, Google Ads Creative Studio, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), Meta Creative Hub
About Adster Creative:
Over the last decade, the team at Adster has experienced explosive growth (winner of Venture Magazine’s Fast Growth 50, two years running). At this stage, as fun as all that dang growth is, we’re looking for long-term team members who value work-life balance, supportive peers, hands-on experience, a positive work environment and a desire to help our agency deliver quality results and excellent customer service to our growing list of clients.
1. Full Duties:
Graphic Design & Advertising Designer (80%):
- Create & execute digital marketing campaigns/strategies and provide feedback on client accounts/modules for other team members, included but not limited to
- PPC (Google Ads, Facebook/Instagram Ads, Bing Ads, etc)
- On-site improvements/optimization
- Content creation
- Link building research & acquisition
- Local SEO
- Create digital advertising assets and visual content for Google, Meta, and LinkedIn campaigns
- Design graphics and layout templates using tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI-based platforms
- Collaborate with marketing strategists to develop creative direction and visuals aligned with brand guidelines
- Assist in designing landing pages, email templates, and web layouts for digital campaigns
- Interpret performance data to iterate on ad design effectiveness
- Maintain consistency in visual branding across all client and internal campaigns
- Software & Tools: Canva, GPT-based image tools, Google Ads Creative Studio, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), Meta Creative Hub
Website Audits, Proposals & Sales (10%)
- Perform website audits
- Identify opportunities, find potential issues and create digital marketing proposals based on findings that meet the clients needs and expected outcomes
- Undergo keyword research, website structure, content research, competitive research, link research and pair these with appropriate measurement systems
- Provide additional digital marketing & PPC strategies that assist the client in achieving their goals
- Assist in new client acquisition by assisting in sales meetings to relay information to potential clients (new sales & renewals)
Account Management (10%):
- Maintain proactive communication with clients
- Perform monthly/quarterly client meetings with clients to discuss their accounts
- Reach out to clients in between meetings with update on account performance (STAR updates)
- Create a personalized approach to getting to know and communicate with clients. This may include but not limited to: regularly scheduled emails, phone calls, screen shares or in-person meetings
- Collect, organize and store client information
- Build a high level of satisfaction and trust with clients
- Communicate client feedback and needs to the rest of team with strong internal communication
- Assist other team members with their meetings as required
- Respond to client emails/calls in a timely manner (within one business day)
- Partial responsibility for the overall success of the account (account retention)
- Coordinate project start ups and closeouts (i.e. client onboarding and cancellation)
- Complete annual client renewals
2. Desired Skills & Experience
- 1+ years experience in a digital marketing strategy role
- 1+ years experience with a digital marketing or advertising agency
- Moderate knowledge of all aspects of search engine optimization and paid online advertising
- Knowledge of and experience with: Google Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook/Instagram Ads
- Knowledge of WordPress, Squarespace, Shopify and Wix
- Ability to edit site content, meta data, build new pages
- You don’t have to know how to code a WordPress site, but knowing the language for how to translate client requests into reality helps our team understand
- Experience writing meta title and descriptions
- Experience with Local SEO, Google My Business/Google Maps optimization
- Experience with link building for clients
- Excellent communication skills internally and with clients
- Excellent verbal & written skills
- High level of attention to detail
- Skillful in managing multiple projects at one time and hitting deadlines.
- Ability to think strategically, analyze data and identify & implement recommendations.
- Degree in marketing or related field is an asset
- Google Ads or Facebook Ads certification is an asset
- Google Analytics certification is an asset
What Adster Creative can offer
- A strong work-life balance. This is really important to all of our team members, across the board.
- Work remotely from home – we’re based in Edmonton but currently working remote and open to team members working across Canada!
- Quarterly performance reviews & coaching
- 2 weeks paid vacation to start, more based on additional years of service (or related experience)
- Annual health spending account
- Paid attendance of workshops, conferences, and learning opportunities directly related to your field
- All those fun agency things you hear about: staff lunches, office snacks, that good coffee – when safe to do so.
- Flexible hours: do you like working from 7am-3pm? We can do that! Prefer 9am-5pm? That works too. Let’s chat about what works best for you!
- Quarterly profit sharing, if applicable to your role.
*If you don’t meet some of these requirements, but still think you’re a good fit – we hope you apply anyways so we have the opportunity to chat!