Graphic Designer

Job Title: Graphic Designer

Location: Downtown Guelph, ON

Company: Topsite

Employment Type: Full-Time

Details: Hybrid; 32 hours/week (9am–5pm Mon–Thurs, 9am–1pm Fri)

Topsite is a strategy-first creative marketing agency based in Guelph. We partner with businesses that are ready to grow with clarity, focus, and accountability.

We intentionally keep a small client roster so we can focus on strategic measurable work and create maximum value for our clients.

That same intention shapes how we work as a team. Our 32-hour work week is designed to create space for focused, sustainable work and a life outside of it.

Our work blends strategy, creativity, performance, and thoughtful execution. We care deeply about outcomes, relationships, and producing work that genuinely moves our clients forward.

We’re looking for a Graphic Designer to become a key creative contributor across our client work and help us maintain the high creative standard our clients expect.

As our Graphic Designer, you will be responsible for turning strategy, ideas, and creative direction into thoughtful, polished work across a range of brands and marketing channels.

This is an agency role, so you’ll have the opportunity to work across different clients, industries, audiences, and types of creative challenges. Our small client roster gives you the variety of agency work while still allowing you to understand each brand and give the work the attention it deserves.

We expect our designer to think critically about the work, understand what it needs to accomplish, contribute ideas, identify opportunities, and take initiative in moving projects from concept through completion.

You’ll work as part of a collaborative team of specialists in copywriting, web development, performance marketing, strategic direction, and client management, with the support and context you need to do strong creative work.

• Own day-to-day design execution across a select group of client accounts
• Translate brand strategy, campaign concepts, briefs, and creative direction into compelling visual work
• Design across a broad mix of marketing materials, including digital advertising, social content, email, websites, presentations, print collateral, campaign assets, and other client needs
• Develop creative concepts and contribute your own ideas to briefs and creative direction
• Maintain and apply client brand systems consistently across channels and deliverables
• Think critically about hierarchy, messaging, user attention, and the objective behind each piece of creative
• Collaborate with strategy and performance teams to create work that supports campaign and business objectives
• Prepare polished, accurate, production-ready files and assets
• Plan and manage design priorities and deadlines across assigned clients while maintaining a consistently high standard of work
• Engage thoughtfully with feedback, apply it well, and contribute your own perspective when it can strengthen the work
• Identify creative problems, gaps, or opportunities before they become issues
• Help evolve the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of design at Topsite

• 3+ years of professional graphic design experience
• Agency experience, or equivalent experience managing design across multiple brands and priorities
• A strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality marketing and brand design work
• Strong command of typography, layout, composition, hierarchy, colour, and visual communication
• Professional proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and/or Figma
• Ability to interpret a creative brief and confidently carry a project forward with independence
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail, including consistency, accuracy, and file preparation
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with creative, strategic, technical, and client-facing team members
• An understanding of how great design supports communication, strategy, and results

Bonus:

• Experience designing websites
• Experience with video editing
• Experience designing paid advertising creative and other performance-focused marketing assets
• Experience contributing to brand identity development or evolution
• Motion graphics, video, illustration, photography, or other complementary creative skills

In your first three months, you will:

• Become familiar with Topsite’s active clients, brands, strategies, and creative standards
• Take ownership of day-to-day design work across assigned client accounts
• Consistently deliver polished work that meets Topsite’s creative standards and builds trust within the team
• Demonstrate that you can interpret briefs, ask the right questions, and independently move creative work forward
• Build strong working relationships with our creative, strategy, performance, and technical teams
• Develop a strong rhythm for managing priorities across client work while maintaining quality and attention to detail
• Begin contributing ideas that strengthen the creative work rather than simply executing what is assigned
• Become a trusted owner of the design function within the Topsite team

At Topsite, creative thinking is an important part of how we solve problems and create results for our clients.

You’ll thrive here if you want:

• A role with real ownership and creative responsibility
• The opportunity to work across different brands, industries, and types of creative challenges
• A small roster of clients we choose intentionally, not high-churn volume work
• A team that values thoughtful work, strong ideas, and high standards
• The freedom to contribute your perspective and improve the work around you
• A healthy, sustainable work culture built around a 32-hour week
• A collaborative environment where strategy, creativity, performance, and technology work together

We’re proud to cultivate a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive.

• Do the right thing
• Leave no stone unturned
• Be remarkably authentic
• Take measured risks
• Invest in yourself
• Create meaningful connections

If you think you’d thrive at Topsite, we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit your application and portfolio at topsitecanada.com/careers.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.