Senior Associate, Marketing Content Designer

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

This role is for a Senior Associate, Marketing Content Designer at Capital One Canada. The primary focus is on crafting and optimizing marketing content across various channels, interpreting briefs, and ensuring messaging aligns with user experience, SEO, and accessibility standards. The role involves partnering with design and marketing teams, developing content systems, interpreting metrics, and presenting strategies. While knowledge of AI trends and using AI tools for content production is mentioned as a preferred qualification, the core responsibilities do not involve building or directly shipping AI/ML models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leveraging strong writing and deep user experience expertise to craft compelling, on-brand, error-free content for outbound marketing channels.
  2. Interpreting and building upon creative briefs to deliver performance-accountable digital ads, brand campaigns, social media posts, videos, emails, blog posts, letters and more.
  3. Ensuring that messaging fits its delivery format, channel or stage of the marketing funnel, and incorporates user experience, SEO and accessibility standards.
  4. Partnering closely with graphic designers, video designers, editors, project managers and marketers to facilitate cohesive, deadline-driven work.
  5. Developing and maintaining systems and best practices for content creation, maintenance and repurposing. Using appropriate tools, frameworks and design systems to do so.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in multichannel, customer-facing content creation (copywriting, content strategy, digital marketing, online publishing, UX writing, etc.)
  • Proven writing, editing and marketing skills, and outstanding command of English spelling and grammar. Experience with CP style and working with company style guides.
  • Proficiency with varied content types a, whether long-form (e.g. blog posts, press releases) or short-form (e.g. social media copy, banner ads, social posts).
  • Adobe Workfront or comparable work management software (working knowledge).
  • Ease with managing multiple projects big and small, while navigating a fluctuating workflow, maintaining copy decks, meeting deadlines and proactively communicating status updates.
  • Incredible people skills and ability to partner effectively with diverse stakeholders (marketing, product, legal). Desire to collaborate, incorporate feedback and negotiate when necessary.
  • Working knowledge of accessibility, plain language and SEO best practices.
  • A willingness to embrace change, adapt strategies on the fly and be open to new ways of working.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in English, journalism, public relations or a related marketing communications field.
  • Experience in the financial services industry.
  • Experience working for a creative agency or in-house creative team.
  • Experience using professional AI tools to scale and improve content production.
  • Experience using content management systems to create, edit and update content.

What the JD emphasized

  • Candidates must submit work samples/portfolios with their application.
  • Experience using professional AI tools to scale and improve content production.