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)

About Topsite 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.

The Role 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.

Key Responsibilities

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

Requirements

3+ years of professional graphic design experience

Agency experience, or equivalent experience managing design across multiple brands and priorities A robust 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 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

What Success Looks Like in Your First 90 Days 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

Why Work With Us 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.

Our Values

Do the right thing

Leave no stone unturned

Be remarkably authentic

Take measured risks

Invest in yourself

Create meaningful connections

About Topsite We provide professional website and marketing services to businesses in Guelph and the surrounding area.

📌 Graphic Designer (Courtice)
🏢 Topsite Development
📍 Courtice