Graphic Designer

Cubicle Fugitive is looking for a rare kind of designer.

Someone with an exceptional eye who is equally happy building a brand from scratch and honouring one that already exists. Brand and website design are the heart of what we do, so you need real, demonstrable experience in both. You’ll create logos and brand systems, design and shape corporate websites, and produce collateral, advertising, and campaigns for clients who do serious, expert work.

You’ll also help look after the design and production for the many brands we manage every day.

Most of our clients are professional services firms. The work leans corporate, considered, and clean, and it exists to do a job: position each firm clearly and help them win and keep the right clients. If you love smart, disciplined design and take pride in getting the details right, you’ll fit well here.

This is a full‑time, permanent role on a hybrid schedule, based out of our office in Hamilton, Ontario.

• Create across mediums. Build brands from the ground up: logos, visual identities, and the collateral that brings them to life. Design and refine corporate websites. Develop campaigns across digital, social, and video, plus the everyday templates clients rely on (PowerPoint, Word, email, paid and organic social).
• Honour, roll out, and protect existing brands. Much of the work is production inside established brand systems: rolling out approved visuals across collateral, decks, social, and websites, keeping every brand consistent, and improving it without losing what makes it theirs. We manage close to 80 brands, so this matters as much as net‑new creative.
• Start with the client, and the result. Understand what each client actually needs before you design, and connect your choices to their audience, their goals, and the business outcome they are paying for. We care about work that performs and positions the firm, not only work that looks good.
• Pitch and present. Explain your thinking clearly, in writing and out loud, so clients and colleagues understand why a design decision is the right one.
• Use AI to work faster and better. We want designers who use AI to take the grind out of repetitive production, to produce layouts, wireframes, and mockups quickly so the team and the client can react to real options early, and to make work that once needed a much bigger budget. The specific tools change constantly. Good judgment in using them does not.
• Manage the work. Move between multiple projects, stakeholders, and approvals without dropping quality. Work to time and budget, ask sharp questions, and stay productive even when the brief is incomplete.
• Stay current. Track where design, web, video, and AI are heading, test new approaches, and share what you learn with the team.

• An excellent portfolio. This is the first thing we look at and the thing that matters most. We want to see range across brand and web, a clear rationale behind your choices, and real skill at making complex things simple.
• Brand and website design experience, both. Brand and web make up most of our work, so you need a real track record designing brand identities and designing or shaping user‑friendly websites. No coding required, though an understanding of UI/UX and what is buildable helps a great deal.
• Around four or more years in a design role. Strong, experienced candidates will be considered for more senior roles. Formal design training helps, but a great portfolio and practical experience matter more to us than a specific degree.
• Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud. Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and the rest, with genuine comfort working inside brand guidelines as well as creating them.
• Care and ownership. You keep your promises, seek clarity early, and care about outcomes as much as outputs.
• Curiosity, resourcefulness, and easy collaboration. You experiment, find practical solutions, and give and take feedback without the noise.

• Agency experience. A big advantage. Agency people understand how to do excellent work inside real time, budget, and client constraints, and how to hold quality high when none of those are generous.
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