Junior Creative Director

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One of Canada’s Most Trusted Investment Brands.

At Picton Mahoney Asset Management (PICTON Investments), being alternative isn’t just what we do—it’s who we are.

Founded by industry pioneer David Picton, we’ve spent 20 years challenging conventional wisdom and redefining the investing landscape. As one of Canada’s most trusted investment brands, we are proudly independent—privately run, 100% employee-owned, and deeply committed to delivering results for our clients.

Thinking Alternatively is in Our DNA. 

With a team of 207 bold thinkers—one-third dedicated solely to investment management—we are specialists, not generalists. Managing $16.6 billion (as of December 31, 2025) for institutional and retail clients, we navigate markets with conviction, resilience, and a forward-thinking approach.

We’re more than investors — we’re innovators. We challenge traditional investment mindsets, constantly pushing the boundaries to achieve our mission: To bring greater certainty to investors. 

Our success is built on four guiding principles:

• Treat investors’ money like our own.
• Redefine the way investors invest.
• Be human—always approachable.
• Succeed together, one investment at a time.

These aren’t just words—they define how we think, how we invest, and how we work. 

Now, we’re entering our next chapter. We’re transforming our brand and reshaping the way the world invests. If you think alternatively, embrace an entrepreneurial spirit, and thrive in a dynamic, bureaucracy-free environment, join us and be part of what’s next.

Thriving in Our Entrepreneurial Culture

At PICTON Investments, you’ll thrive in our creative and dynamic workplace, where collaboration and support are at the core of everything we do. At our firm, you’ll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibilities, work in a flexible environment, and tackle challenging projects from the outset. Our culture is designed for ambitious professionals who want to make an immediate impact while continuing to push boundaries and achieve our greater mission. You’ll be empowered with a high level of responsibility, trust, and flexibility, providing an exciting and creative space for you to help reshape how the world views alternative investments. With competitive total rewards, performance-based bonuses, and a clear path for career growth, you’ll have everything you need to develop both now and over the longer term.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a hands-on Junior Creative Director, reporting in the Chief Marketing Officer, who can turn strategy into standout creative across brand, campaigns, digital, social, and video. You’ll collaborate daily with Marketing, 2ND ENGINE, and the Investment team to bring ideas to life, level up design quality across channels, and guide two junior designers with clear briefs and actionable feedback.

You’ll balance fresh, culturally aware creative with practical constraints like timelines, budgets, and compliance typical of financial services—helping us ship work that’s polished, on-brand, and effective.

The expected annual base salary for this role is $100,000 –$120,000 with the final number depending on your experience, skills, education, and team budget. On top of that, you’ll be eligible for our discretionary bonus program.

At PICTON, being employee-owned means we take care of our team and offer opportunities for top performers to participate in our equity ownership program over time. Eligible employees get access to a full benefits package, including profit sharing, health and wellness coverage, life and disability insurance, paid time off and holidays, learning and development programs, and more, many of which are fully covered or subsidized by us.

What You’ll Do

We’re currently looking for an experienced, hands-on Creative Director who leads by doing and by empowering others to do their best work. This is not a “manage from a distance” role. You set the creative bar through craft, curiosity, and collaboration, while creating a culture where strong ideas happen and people feel ownership in the work.

This is an exciting time to join the team as we continue to shape and grow the PICTON brand. An innovation mindset is critical. We are always open to fresh thinking, new tools, and new approaches that challenge convention and help move the brand forward in meaningful ways. You are energized by progress and see change as opportunity.

You’ll work closely with an existing team of designers, building a supportive, high-performing creative environment rooted in our core values, where trust, clarity, and shared standards drive collaboration, consistency, and momentum. Culture and fit matter deeply. You value teamwork, constructive feedback, and forward progress over ego.

Creative Development & Execution

• Support the development and execution of creative concepts across brand, campaign, digital, social, and video.
• Translate brand strategy and business objectives into compelling creative ideas.
• Ensure creative work is consistently high-quality, on-brand, and delivered on time.
• Review and refine creative assets, providing constructive, actionable feedback.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Marketing on campaigns and content development.
• Collaborate with the Investment teams on thought-leadership content.
• Work with 2ND ENGINE by PICTON to align creative direction with product and investment storytelling.
• Assist in presenting creative concepts and rationale to internal stakeholders and leadership.

Team Leadership & Brand Stewardship

• Lead, mentor, and inspire designers through clear briefs and feedback.
• Oversee all videography for social media.
• Contribute to evolving and maintaining brand guidelines and visual identity.
• Balance bold creative thinking with real-world constraints such as timelines, budgets, and compliance.

Marketing Strategy & Design Excellence

• Support all marketing initiatives and own key design components across web, social, and email.
• Lead improvements in internal design capability, with two junior designers reporting into this role.
• Stay up to date on cultural trends, design, storytelling, and emerging platforms to keep the brand fresh and relevant.

What You Bring

Technical and craft expertise

• 5+ years in a senior creative role such as Junior ACD or equivalent, with a portfolio spanning websites, digital experiences, social, email, integrated campaigns, and video.
• Strong design fundamentals including typography, layout, systems thinking, and visual hierarchy, applied consistently across channels.
• Proven experience designing and launching websites, including UX, visual design, and collaboration with developers.
• Hands-on expertise in video and motion, including concepting, storyboarding, editing, and overseeing post-production for brand and digital-first content.
• Demonstrated experience designing email campaigns and modular templates optimized for Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar platforms.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma, plus social-first video tools such as Premiere, After Effects, or CapCut.
• Strong working knowledge of AI-powered creative tools, with hands-on experience using platforms such as Runway, NanoBanana, Midjourney, Sora, DALL·E, Firefly, or similar tools for concepting, design exploration, video, and production acceleration.

People, leadership, and collaboration

• A hands-on, builder mindset with a desire to lead through example and stay close to the work.
• Proven ability to mentor and empower designers, creating clarity through strong briefs, constructive feedback, and smart prioritization.
• Experience working collaboratively with external creative agencies, ensuring alignment while maintaining creative standards.
• Comfort working cross-functionally with marketing, lifecycle, product, engineering, and senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative, low-ego leadership style where culture, trust, and fit matter as much as craft.

Our Commitment to Employees

At PICTON Investments, we take pride in enhancing our employees' experiences through a comprehensive suite of exceptional perks and programs. Our benefits include corporate fitness reimbursement and discounts, VersaFi memberships (formerly Women in Capital Markets), Picton investment counseling and portfolio management services, volunteer and charitable donation matching, maternity and parental leave top-up, recognition awards, semi-annual performance bonuses, a generous annual vacation entitlement (minimum of 15 days per year), training and development reimbursement, extensive health and dental benefits, a healthcare spending account, and more.

These offerings are designed to support your career growth, well-being, and overall success. Join us and thrive in an environment that values and invests in you!

PICTON Investments is committed to providing an equitable and fair work environment for everyone and all hiring and other personnel actions will be taken without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, sex, disability, gender identity, gender expression, family status, age, language or national origin. We welcome applications from candidates with diverse experiences globally. Canadian experience is not required. If you require an accommodation at any point in time throughout the application and hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (416) 955-4108 or at [email protected].

PICTON Investments does not accept unsolicited resumes, emails, calls, or any other form of communication from third-party recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited outreach, including commercial electronic messages, will neither be acknowledged nor considered.

Please note: We use AI-assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process, including summarizing interview notes and aligning candidate profiles with job requirements. All decisions are made by our hiring team.