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Associate Creative Director - Creative Technology

@ CMICA Critical Mass

Calgary, Alberta

HybridFull-time
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Overview

CMICA Critical Mass is hiring an Associate Creative Director for Creative Technology on a 6-month contract. The role concepts campaigns and builds working prototypes and interactive demos from the start of the creative process, alongside traditional ACD work. The posting states a minimum of 3 office days per week and a salary of $120,000 - $135,000.

Responsibilities:

  • Concept campaigns and promotions in a creative pod
  • Build working prototypes and interactive demos of campaign ideas
  • Present and iterate on creative work at ACD level
  • Integrate technology into ideas from the briefing stage
  • Stretch Adobe tools into new creative uses

Requirements summary:

  • Portfolio showing creative thinking and things built
  • Campaign experience in an agency environment
  • Fluency with prototyping and vibe-coding environments such as Claude/Code and ChatGPT/Codex
  • Working knowledge of AI creative tools across image, video, audio and interactive

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Benefits mentioned

Paid time offParental leaveEmployee discount
Source and dates

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Employer posting date
2026-11-03
First seen by our source
2026-10-08
Source record updated
2026-11-04

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Job details

SeniorityMid level
DepartmentDesign & creative
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
Perks mentionedGenerous paid time off, Generous parental leave, Employee discount

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Job description

Agency:

Critical Mass

Job Function:

Creative

Job Subfunction:

Creative Direction

Job Description:

*6 month contract*

You bring ideas to life before they’re ready to be a deck.

You work in a creative pod concepting campaigns and promotions. The traditional dimensions of that work are real: strong craft, clear thinking, ideas that hold up under scrutiny. But what you bring that no one else in the pod does is the question “what else could this be?” You spin up a landing page to show how a campaign breathes in the wild. You build a demo of how a product experience might work inside a banner ad. You find a way to stretch an existing Adobe tool into something unexpected. Creative technology isn’t a layer you add to an idea after it’s formed: it’s how you think from the start.

As art directors design and copywriters write, one of your mediums is code. You carry a full creative load — concepting, developing, presenting across Adobe’s campaign and product work — and you bring the same rigor your creative partners bring. What’s different is that when the team is figuring out how to express a concept, you’re the one who can make a version of it exist. Scrappily, quickly, real enough for someone to react to.

You will:
What You Produce - Campaign concepts and executions expressed as working prototypes, interactive demos, not just decks. A proof-of-concept that tests whether the technology will support the idea, and a functional prototype that shows what it looks and feels like. Traditional campaign work — concepting, presenting, iterating — at the level expected of any ACD on this team.

The Standard-The clearest measure of this role: the ideas you bring couldn’t have been expressed any other way. The technology dimension should be integrated from the start — shaping what ideas you bring forward, how you express them, and what you push the team to consider. If you’re asking, “can we prototype this?” after the concept is approved, you’ve arrived too late. The question belongs in the briefing itself.

You Have:

  • A portfolio that demonstrates both strong creative thinking and things you’ve built — not one or the other.
  • Campaign experience in an agency environment.
  • The creative instinct to know when technology is serving an idea versus driving it.
  • Hands-on fluency with prototyping and vibe-coding environments (Claude/Code, ChatGPT/Codex).
  • Working knowledge of AI creative tools across image, video, audio, and interactive.

What We Offer:

  • Global maternity and parental leave
  • Competitive benefits packages
  • Vacation, compassionate leave, personal/sick days, and flex days
  • 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.

$120,000 - $135,000


To the extent permissible by local law, Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.


Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.


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