Associate Media Director (Operations) – Critical Mass – Vancouver, BC

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Vancouver, BC

Expected salary: $110000 – 140000 per year

Job date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:53:56 GMT

Job description: consultation when needed for Digital Marketing platforms – Google Ads, Bing, Pinterest, etc You have: Minimum 5 years… Collaborate with Client Marketing team to communicate pixel update internally and submit requests Pixel implementation…

Senior Associate, Digital Activation – Critical Mass – Toronto, ON

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:57:21 GMT

Job description: The Senior Associate, Digital Activation is the day-to-day steward on the business and is on the front lines of developing and activating both tactical and custom digital recommendations to meet our clients’ goals. They are a Digital native, curious about unique emerging opportunities and prepared to provide a point-of-view, recommendation, and optimization recommendations based on campaign performance. They are the primary contributor to the planning process (inclusive of partner evaluation, negotiation, reporting, optimization, insight generation, billing, etc.), while also being a key touchpoint to internal agency stakeholders and day-to-day management for our client.You Will:

  • Coordinate and oversee the management, trafficking, optimization and reporting of paid social and digital campaign initiatives.
  • Manage media campaigns from end-to-end, including working with other internal teams, measurement partners, and clients to secure deliverables.
  • Integrate with neighboring disciplines (Creative, Marketing Science, Strategy) to develop cohesive paid media strategy and targeting approach by respective campaign objective.
  • Manage the billing team and provide final approval on all billing needs
  • Provide strategic insights and optimizations for all client reports
  • Prepare new information for paid tactical media plans, evaluate vendor proposals, and present channel strategy to clients.
  • Evaluate, build and maintain relationships in the display and emerging media community.
  • Lead the development of “Point of View” (POV) documents on industry trends or new, innovative opportunities.
  • Responsible for relationship with third-party vendors – i.e. keeping up to date on all offerings and facilitating meetings across the vendor, client and media teams.
  • Serve as a point of contact for problem escalation; demonstrate exceptional client interaction skills.

You Have:

  • 3-5 years of experience in digital activation, executing and optimizing campaigns across paid social, programmatic, search, and video platforms with a focus on data-driven results.
  • Agency experience is preferred.
  • Hands-on-keyboard experience with Paid Social execution (Meta, LinkedIn).
  • Strong mathematical aptitude and understanding of the digital media landscape.
  • Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and campaign optimizations across channels and audiences.
  • Proficient in research, audience planning, and developing social media plans (platform, tactic, audience, creative).
  • Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting to client leadership.
  • Execute and oversee media trafficking for digital advertising campaigns, ensuring accurate setup, scheduling, and delivery across various ad platforms
  • Work closely with media planners, creative teams, and vendors to traffic assets and implement tracking pixels and tags (i.e. DCM/CM360, Flashtalking, etc.).
  • Proficient in reporting and analytics, including crafting insights and optimizations for weekly pacing, monthly reports, and post-campaign wrap reports.
  • Familiar with media industry tools, such as MediaOcean (Prisma), IAS or DoubleVerify, MRI, Comscore, or similar.

What We Offer:

  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, wellness days, and personal time
  • Access to online services for families and new parents
  • Early Dismissal Friday’s (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
  • 12 Affinity Groups
  • Internal learning and development programs
  • Enterprise-wide employee discounts

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.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 and . 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.If U.S. based:
If Canada based:
If U.K. based:
If Costa Rica based:

The Senior Associate, Digital Activation, is responsible for daily management and execution of digital campaigns to achieve client objectives. This includes overseeing paid social and digital initiatives, managing end-to-end media campaigns, and collaborating with various internal teams. Key responsibilities involve optimizing campaign performance, preparing reports, evaluating vendor proposals, and maintaining industry relationships.

Candidates should have 3-5 years of digital activation experience, particularly in paid social, with strong analytical skills and agency experience preferred. Proficiency in budgeting, audience planning, and media tools is essential, along with excellent communication skills.

The role offers competitive benefits, parental leave, and internal development programs, with a minimum requirement of three office days per week. Critical Mass promotes diversity and equal opportunity in hiring practices.

Freelance Senior Project Manager – Critical Mass – Toronto, ON

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:15:18 GMT

Job description: Critical Mass Toronto are looking for an experienced integrated Senior Project Manager to come and join the team on a freelance basis working on one of our largest Automotive accounts.As the Senior Project Manager, you are a creative and strategic thinker who loves learning everything there is to know about a client’s brand, business, and customer. You have experience leading multidisciplinary teams, and you know what it takes to deliver an integrated experience that can improve the lives of customers and surpasses the goals of clients. Being a reliable partner to team leads helps you consistently elevate the work. Both the client services and project delivery worlds are successfully navigated by your proactive communication of project statuses, challenges, and opportunities to clients. You adeptly manage the project team tracking scope, schedule, staffing, and budget on medium to large sized projects.You Will:Client Relations

  • Act as a primary contact of communicating needs between the client, team, and vendors.
  • Understand your client’s short and long-term goals, as well as their competition.
  • Inform clients how to drive project success.
  • Deliver solutions to drive consensus for problems in a professional and timely manner.
  • Identify additional opportunities within the ask or opportunistically within the account.

Project Support

  • Support developing solutions to drive client business.
  • Maintain a unique perspective of a common goal to increase knowledge, communication, and awareness between team members and the client.
  • Encourage high standards of professionalism and leadership throughout the life of a project.
  • Ensure the team is properly briefed and understands the requirements of the project/work.
  • Share client insights and objectives to align the team to the goals of the project.
  • Create solid project plans with top-down and bottom-up budgets to support clients’ interests.
  • Execute project plans according to established procedures, channels, and expectations.
  • Manage and maintain project scopes and communicate status of scope to team.
  • Facilitate and be an active participant in both client and internal meetings.
  • Coordinate project deliverables and guide the team on potential risks.
  • Create a logical and articulate storyline of all client materials.
  • Define, negotiate, communicate, implement, and monitor quality standards on all project deliverables.
  • Manage project communication and document issues and changes that affect the project.
  • Develop status reports and work with project leaders to ensure all resources.
  • Create a positive, team-oriented environment that leads to award-winning work.
  • Forecast, track, and manage project budgets and revenue, POs and invoices.
  • Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks.
  • Work with discipline leads to define appropriate resources for client needs and deliverables.

Account Planning and Operations

  • Contribute to account road map development that will allow for solid resources and revenue management, looking at all projects being tied into the larger account picture.
  • Act as a career manager and provide project delivery guidance, mentoring and training.
  • Participate in continuous team development to effectively deliver solutions.

You Have:

  • Experience managing a variety of project types, specifically marketing/ integrated campaigns (video, social, digital), dynamic content optimization (DCO), media coordination and trafficking, audience segmentation and targeting.
  • Experience with office productivity tools such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
  • Experience with collaboration and issue tracking tools such as SharePoint, Slack, Jira, and Confluence.
  • Experience leading teams (internal and external vendors/ partners) and conversations with clients around scope, schedule, and budget as well as roadmaps, objectives, and strategies.
  • Strong competency with managing and controlling project scope, schedule, budget and resource management / reporting and change management, project roadmap development and revenue forecasting.
  • Experience working with strategy, creative and technical teams.
  • Advanced knowledge of Project Management principles, methods, and techniques.
  • The ability to tactically organize and structure activities, paying particular attention to detail.
  • Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills to facilitate effective task and resource management.
  • Demonstrated communication, presentation, leadership, facilitation and negotiation skills.
  • Refined decision-making skills with the ability to lead driven by solutions.
  • The ability to stay focused on driving goals in high-pressure situations.

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 and . 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.If U.S. based:
If Canada based:
If U.K. based:
If Costa Rica based:

Job Summary: Senior Project Manager at Critical Mass Toronto

Critical Mass Toronto is seeking a freelance Senior Project Manager with experience in integrated marketing, particularly within the automotive sector. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of clients’ brands and customer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the main contact between clients, teams, and vendors, ensuring effective communication.
  • Understand client goals and competition to drive project success.
  • Develop solid project plans and manage scope, schedule, budget, and deliverables for medium to large projects.
  • Facilitate meetings, coordinate project deliverables, and guide teams on potential risks.
  • Foster a positive team environment and ensure high standards throughout project lifecycle.
  • Oversee account planning and operations to align resources and manage revenue effectively.

Qualifications:

  • Experience in managing integrated marketing campaigns and familiarity with project management tools.
  • Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  • Proven ability to stay focused and meet goals under pressure.

Additional Information:

  • Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer and emphasizes a safe recruitment process. Communicate only through official email channels and be wary of potential scams.

Freelance Art Director – Critical Mass – Toronto, ON

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sat, 31 May 2025 23:55:45 GMT

Job description: As a Freelance Digital Art Director, the conceptual development and execution of creative deliverables is on your shoulders-including creating and communicating concepts, implementing marketing strategies, and developing interactive design solutions. Balancing creative thinking with interpersonal skills, you champion creative concepts to clients and project teams alike.You have a strong digital craft and a broad range. Your work is versatile; the work can range from landing pages to kiosks to virtual reality installations to social media campaigns. You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team which uses an agile workflow to develop ideas and, ultimately, prototypes and testing artifacts.You will:

  • Develop concepts and communicate ideas.
  • Balance strategic development with client business objectives.
  • Direct and delegate to core creative services disciplines.
  • Directly contribute to project design and development including creating storyboards and initial graphic concepts, conceive functional design solutions, create site grids and interface demos, and provide QA of all creative deliverables.
  • Mentor and coach teams through project development and performance management.
  • Build relationships with clients, partner agencies, photographers, model agencies, and other vendors.
  • Contribute to the innovative development of the creative department.
  • Lead and partner with designers, production artists, writers, content analysts, planners, and Information Architects.
  • Participate in strategic brainstorming, concept development, creative brief development, and creative execution.

You have:

  • 2 or more years of experience and a strong digital design portfolio.
  • Experience leading a team of designers, production specialists, and writers.
  • Experience meeting clients and presenting your work.
  • Experience with strategic brainstorming, campaign development, creative brief development, and creative execution, and contributing beyond strictly visual aspects.
  • An ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
  • A proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
  • Knowledge of the latest versions of Mac OS, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
  • Understanding of the strengths and limitations of After Effects, QuickTime, and Final Cut Pro.
  • Efficient organizational skills and a motivated dedication to the creative team.
  • Eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
  • Leadership abilities to foster learning and excellence among team members.
  • Illustration skills in both electronic and traditional media.
  • Proficient with Figma.

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 and . 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.If U.S. based:
If Canada based:
If U.K. based:
If Costa Rica based:

As a Freelance Digital Art Director, you will be responsible for the conceptual development and execution of various creative deliverables, including marketing strategies and interactive design solutions. Your role involves communicating ideas, balancing creative and strategic development, and leading project designs—from storyboards to prototypes. You’ll work within a multi-disciplinary, agile team, engaging with clients, partner agencies, and other vendors to foster collaborative relationships.

### Key Responsibilities:
– Develop and present creative concepts.
– Direct and delegate creative tasks while contributing to design and development.
– Mentor team members and enhance the creative department’s innovation.
– Participate in strategic brainstorming and oversee project execution.

### Qualifications:
– 2+ years of experience with a strong digital design portfolio.
– Leadership experience with designers and writers.
– Skills in project management and collaboration.
– Proficiency in design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, and understanding of After Effects.
– Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.

The position emphasizes leadership, creativity, and collaboration in a dynamic setting, with a commitment to equal opportunity and integrity in the hiring process.

Freelance Associate Creative Director, Design – Critical Mass – Vancouver, BC

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Vancouver, BC

Expected salary:

Job date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:25:24 GMT

Job description: , design systems, with a commitment to simple, clean design. You Will Lead the design of a digital design system… for all active and potential projects Stay familiar with the latest trends and work in the digital design industry You Have 8…

Freelance Designer, Experience – Critical Mass – Vancouver, BC

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Vancouver, BC

Expected salary:

Job date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:52:04 GMT

Job description: role helping our client connect their consumers globally through mobile, digital, and in-store experiences. This team…, you are a user experience leaning visual designer. You’re comfortable being responsible for developing break-through marketing…

UX Copywriter – Critical Mass – Vancouver, BC

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Vancouver, BC

Expected salary: $65000 – 80000 per year

Job date: Fri, 30 May 2025 22:50:43 GMT

Job description: complex digital products and systems, identifying communication challenges, and coming up with copy solutions…. You complement your writing skills with a strong understanding of other aspects of online marketing and transactional platforms…

Senior Designer, Experience – Critical Mass – Vancouver, BC

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Vancouver, BC

Expected salary: $75000 – 90000 per year

Job date: Fri, 30 May 2025 23:04:18 GMT

Job description: role helping our client connect their consumers globally through mobile, digital, and in-store experiences. This team… marketing campaigns that incorporate all communications disciplines for new Product Launches. You’ll working closely…

Freelance Senior UX Copywriter – Critical Mass – Vancouver, BC

Company: Critical Mass

Location: Vancouver, BC

Expected salary:

Job date: Sat, 31 May 2025 04:26:32 GMT

Job description: at grasping complex digital products and systems, identifying communication challenges, and coming up with copy solutions…. You complement your writing skills with a strong understanding of other aspects of online marketing and transactional platforms…