Full-Time

Senior Designer

Portfolio

SALT XC

SALT XC

201-500 employees

Experiential marketing agency with AI tech

Compensation Overview

$85k - $95k/yr

Toronto, ON, Canada

In Person

Category
Art, Graphics & Animation (1)
Required Skills
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Adobe Illustrator
Graphic Design

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Requirements
  • Significant experience in graphic design, branding, retail design, or shopper marketing, ideally within an agency or in-house creative environment.
  • A portfolio showcasing exceptional visual craft across brand identity, campaign design, retail environments, and integrated marketing.
  • Proven experience developing brand guidelines, campaign toolkits, and scalable design systems.
  • Strong understanding of retail environments and how consumers interact with brands at the point of purchase.
  • Expert knowledge of typography, layout, color, composition, and visual storytelling.
  • The ability to think conceptually while executing with precision and an exceptional level of craft.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary creative teams.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the design development of seasonal Portfolio campaigns across Kraft Heinz brands.
  • Create campaign visual identities, design systems, and comprehensive brand guidelines that enable ideas to scale consistently across retail and marketing channels.
  • Design engaging retail experiences, including point-of-sale materials, merchandising, displays, environmental graphics, packaging extensions, and promotional assets.
  • Partner closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Strategists, Brand Teams, and Retail Marketing to transform big creative ideas into exceptional visual experiences.
  • Build flexible design toolkits that can be adapted across multiple retailers, brands, and seasonal campaigns while maintaining creative consistency.
  • Ensure every execution balances world-class creative with retail realities, shopper behavior, production requirements, and speed to market.
  • Champion design craft through typography, composition, color, and attention to detail.
  • Present design work with confidence, clearly articulating the strategic thinking and creative rationale behind solutions.
  • Mentor and inspire other designers through collaboration, feedback, and a commitment to raising the quality of creative across the team.
  • Stay ahead of design, retail, and cultural trends to continually evolve how brands appear in-store.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Figma.
  • A passion for mentoring others and elevating the creative standard through thoughtful feedback and collaboration.

Salt XC is a North American marketing and technology agency focused on Experiential Commerce, which blends consumers’ online and offline journeys to drive measurable actions for brands. It combines strategy, creative, design, media, content, and commerce with a proprietary AI-enabled tech stack, including Media Mob (content marketplace for vetted freelancers), Podium (marketing mix modeling to predict outcomes), Frontrunner (social DSP that automates media buying), and Otto (AI media planning). The company differentiates itself by acting as a hybrid of full‑service agency and tech firm, owning an in‑house tech stack to execute faster and more data-driven campaigns, and expanding through acquisitions to integrate retail media, data analytics, and real‑world experiences. Its goal is to deliver connected, data-informed experiences that convert—scaling across North America for major brands such as Kraft Heinz, Adidas, Coca‑Cola, Visa, Microsoft Xbox, and RBC.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Canada

Founded

2019

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • August 2026 website highlights Adweek's 2025 Experiential Agency of the Year recognition.
  • October 2025 adidas Canada's FIFA World Cup Trionda launch showcased Salt XC's experiential execution.
  • August 2026 roster includes Kraft Heinz, AB InBev, Chobani, Visa, and Xbox.

What critics are saying

  • February 2026 acquisitions created integration risk across Salt Media, WTD, and Craft & Commerce.
  • 2026 independents like Omnicom, WPP, and Publicis squeeze Salt XC's pricing and talent.
  • If 2026 experiential budgets freeze, Salt XC's differentiation collapses into commoditized services.

What makes SALT XC unique

  • In 2026, Salt XC's Experiential Commerce unites activations, media, and commerce for measurable actions.
  • February 2026 Craft & Commerce added U.S. media depth across New York, Chicago, Florida.
  • March 2026 WTD investment strengthened Salt XC's AI personalization and CRM orchestration stack.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Remote Work Options

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Conference Attendance Budget

Professional Development Budget

Stock Options

Company Equity

Phone/Internet Stipend

Home Office Stipend

Family Planning Benefits

Fertility Treatment Support

Adoption Assistance

Parental Leave

Paid Sick Leave

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Employee Discounts

Meals

Gym Membership

Relocation Assistance

Commuter Benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Certification Support

Mentorship Program

Training Programs

Meal Benefits

Employee Referral Bonus

Performance Bonus

Profit Sharing

Paid Holidays

Company News

Strategy
Aug 13th, 2026
Agency Moves: Salt XC adds an ACD.

Agency Moves: Salt XC adds an ACD. 10 hours ago Former Saje and Taxi copywriter moves to Salt XC LB Cooper has joined Salt XC as associate creative director.

AAAA
May 7th, 2026
How agencies are reshaping junior-level roles and training in the AI era.

How agencies are reshaping junior-level roles and training in the AI era. Published 04.30.2026 * Artificial Intelligence * Culture * Future of the Agency * HR/Talent/Inclusion * Staff Development * Talent More than half of agencies pulled back on entry-level hiring as AI took over many tasks once handled by junior staff, with 57% reporting that they had slowed or paused hiring for such roles, a report last August showed. Stats like that have caused anxiety among emerging talent trying to enter the ad industry, but numbers don't paint a full picture. Experiential commerce agency Salt XC, for example, hired 100 employees within the last two months, with the majority being entry-level. Ad Age spoke with 18 agency executives, hiring managers and other industry leaders who are reworking their team structures to find new jobs and opportunities for juniors. Some of those opportunities have actually opened up as a result of AI. Other agencies are introducing apprenticeships and shadowing that offer training on higher-level skills that AI can't replace. "AI is in its infancy," said Allen & Gerritsen (A&G) CEO Andrew Graff, adding, "We're going to need a whole new set of skills." The 4As is also working on expanding The Face of Talent, its annual summer week of programming around talent initiatives, to provide more year-round training to help agencies restructure their workforces so they can continue to hire junior talent. "We're also going to be looking at things like organizational design within agencies. What does the new talent team need to look like?" said Justin Thomas-Copeland, CEO of the 4As. The guide below shows some of the ways that agencies are placing junior talent, including how they've rewired their workforces to ensure their success.

The Globe and Mail
Mar 3rd, 2026
Salt XC invests in William Thomas Digital to expand AI-powered customer experience capabilities

Salt XC has made a strategic investment in William Thomas Digital (WTD), a Canadian CRM and customer experience consultancy specialising in AI marketing orchestration and personalisation. WTD will continue operating independently under its existing leadership whilst expanding its innovation capabilities. WTD focuses on agentic workflows and generative creative systems, embedding intelligent agents directly into CRM environments to enable adaptive segmentation, real-time decisioning and dynamic content generation. The technology allows creative, data and automation to operate together whilst continuously learning and optimising performance. The investment will support expansion of WTD's strategic and technical teams, advancement of AI-powered personalisation capabilities, and collaboration with Salt XC on shared client initiatives. Salt XC is a North American marketing agency employing over 400 professionals across the continent.

Newswire
Mar 3rd, 2026
Salt XC Makes Strategic Investment in William Thomas Digital to Expand AgenticCX and Personalization Capabilities

/CNW/ - Salt XC today announced a strategic investment in William Thomas Digital (WTD), a technology-driven CRM and customer experience consultancy...

Digiday
Feb 11th, 2026
Canadian indie Salt XC buys US agency Craft & Commerce to expand media offerings

Toronto-based independent agency Salt XC has acquired Craft & Commerce, a full-service media agency with offices in New York, Chicago and Florida. This marks Salt XC's second US acquisition in a year as it expands its North American presence despite ongoing trade tensions between the US and Canada. The acquisition strengthens Salt XC's regional reach and media capabilities, combining experiential marketing with retail media expertise. Clients include Kraft-Heinz, AB InBev, Adidas and Chobani. Craft & Commerce will continue operating under its own name for now. Salt XC's previous acquisition of AI-driven agency Nectar First has enhanced its technological capabilities. Analyst Andrew Lipsman called the move a natural fit, noting both agencies' forward-thinking approach to retail media and experiential activation. Financial terms were not disclosed.