Creative Director, Art

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Published

10/07/2025

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CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ART

Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading marketing and communications agencies, is seeking a creative, passionate and unique thinker to join our Toronto office as a Creative Director, Art (this means you have a background in art direction and graphic design).

The right candidate is a highly conceptual and strategic thinker with a strong repertoire of storytelling skills that can deliver earned first creative ideas, agnostic of platform. Big ideas that drive conversation and coverage must be at the core of your work.

You can lead design initiatives when needed, and help set the tone for a growing and innovative team of art directors and designers, working on some of Canada’s biggest brands. The right candidate will have an art direction and graphic design background, a keen eye for design and materials and be able to execute flawlessly, in addition to the ability to communicate your vision to collaborators. You should be able to adapt your work for any platform in service of telling a great story, from social to digital to out-of-home to print.

You’ll have the chance to work closely with the brightest minds across the North American Weber Shandwick network, solving provocative client challenges as you develop in your creative career.

You must be comfortable presenting and engaging directly with clients, representing agency work with confidence and finesse. In addition, you will work a minimum of four days in office each week at our Toronto office on King Street East at Parliament Street. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Ideate and execute earned and social first creative activations.
  • Creatively interpret strategy vision of client’s business.
  • Liaise with client teams to ensure alignment with client objectives.
  • Establish and set quality standards for art directors and graphic designers who you will manage.
  • Develop refined, production-heavy concepts and executions with a focus on social and digital media. Use experience in social media to incorporate creative/design/layout best practices for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn, YouTube and others.
  • Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
  • Be extremely comfortable creating iterative digital executions, such as resizes of campaign assets for various channels — and overseeing others in this task.
  • Wear multiple hats: contingent on your skills, there will be times when you must drive the creative/design process by playing the role of producer, re-toucher, illustrator, photographer, etc.
  • From concept to execution, bring an enthusiasm for solving design and marketing challenges throughout the life of a project, and amid stakeholder revisions.
  • Display an understanding of digital and interactive design principles; we do not produce many websites or mobile apps, but need someone who can speak to and define those UX/UI needs when necessary.
  • Present your work comfortably and confidently in client meetings.
  • Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
  • Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers.
  • Cultivate an inclusive culture and champion the contributions of your colleagues.
  • Have a proficient grasp on generative AI as it concerns art direction, renders, and mocks.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

  • 10+ years’ experience in Creative Director role on the agency side.
  • A background in art direction and graphic design.
  • Experience in big ideas, brand activations, and social content.
  • Experience delivering creative campaigns for PR (earned, owned and paid strategies)
  • Experience in digital (social, content, video, media, influencer)
  • Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), as well as presentation software (eg: PowerPoint).
  • Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick-skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
  • Be culture-obsessed and a heavy consumer of media.
  • Experience with social media platforms and a working knowledge of their best practices
  • Ongoing drive to learn and incorporate new and emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, and social media.
  • Must have a portfolio (share anything that conveys the way you think or approach assignments, even if it was never produced).

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • Education in graphic design is preferred.
  • Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, etc. Any artistic passion points are always a plus.
  • Experience managing junior creatives is a plus.

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • RRSP (with employer match)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
  • Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – $50 monthly cell phone reimbursement
  • MyDays – Flexible time off
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave Policy

Salary range: CAD 140,000 – CAD 160,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.

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Faites-nous parvenir votre lettre de présentation et votre curriculum vitae à l’adresse courriel suivante : mkhoury@webershandwick.com.

 

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We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.

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  • Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
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Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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#LI-SK1

 

 

We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.

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While our story is rooted in traditional PR, we’ve evolved into a fully integrated agency working with some of the biggest names in QSR, CPG, retail, healthcare, technology and financial services.

Across media relations, influencer relations, social strategy, corporate reputation, crisis management, public affairs, branding, editorial content, employee engagement, digital advertising, experiential events, analytics, social impact and more – our work, knowledge and people are as diverse as the ideas we present every day.

 

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Beginning day one, we’ll create an environment that allows you to explore the various facets of Public Relations and Marketing: 

  • Conduct and report on media monitoring to keep us aware of client coverage and what’s happening with their competitors, identify potential risks and support with crisis management.
  • Prepare and update media and influencer lists with fresh outlets, angles and voices.
  • Apply strong written ability to draft research reports, social content, internal communications and media relations materials.
  • Support event execution: generate ideas, source locations, coordinate vendors, engage with media/influencers, and set-up/take-down.
  • Develop briefs that help planners and creative teams understand the client ask.
  • Dig deep into consumer and competitive research to support with new business pitches.
  • Attend brainstorms alongside strategic planners, art directors and copywriters.
  • Assist account teams with ad-hoc tasks such as project management and billing support.

 

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  • Experience – You’ll be part of one or more account teams working on some of Canada’s (and the world’s) top brands. You won’t be watching from the sidelines, you will be IN the work.
  • Training and coaching – You’ll kick off your experience with a series of trainings to introduce you to the core areas of our work, and then be invited to workshops and ongoing local and global trainings to keep you on the cutting edge of some of the most advanced thinking in the industry.
  • Mentorship – You’ll be paired with a “People Champion” to ensure you get the most out of your experience and help guide your career.
  • Support – You’ll get a buddy dedicated to showing you the ropes and navigate the agency world, as well as access to a network of current and former interns to trade tips and share advice.
  • A paycheck!  Our interns are paid hourly, at 40-hours per week.

 

Our IGNITE interns will earn practical experience as fully integrated members of account teams and will receive coaching from team members to help advance your career goals.

 

GOT WHAT IT TAKES?

We are accepting applications for spring (January-May) 2026. Applications are welcomed from candidates in Toronto and Montreal.

 

Weber Shandwick welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

 

Applications will close on Friday, November 7, 2025.

 

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status

#LI-LC1

 

We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.