Careers — the studio
Show us your best work.
Brandmax is a founder-led Toronto studio: design, motion, web and growth under one roof. One role stays posted year round: SEO Engineer, because good SEO is rare. Everything else works on a simple rule: send work worth hiring, and we hire when the right person shows up.
We hire on the work, not the resume. Show us one project you’re proud of.
A small studio reads differently than an HR pipeline.
There’s no applicant tracking system here and no keyword filter. Real people open what you send — the ones you’d actually work with. If the work is good, the resume barely matters. If the work isn’t there yet, no resume fixes that.
What gets you hired here
The values
The work holds up close
Pixel gaps, easing curves, kerning, load time. If the details bore you, we’ll bore each other.
You know why it’s good
Anyone can copy a trend. We want people who can say why one version works and the other doesn’t.
Ship, then polish again
Small studio, real deadlines. Three honest drafts this week beat one perfect thing next month.
Nobody assigns the fix
You spot the problem, you flag it, you fix it. Nobody here waits to be told what to care about.
Open position — evergreen
SEO Engineer
Good SEO is rare. The kind that ranks real businesses and can prove it is rarer, so this role has no deadline and no headcount — it stays open year round, and when the right person shows up we make room. Everything else on this page is still fair game: send work we can’t ignore.
SEO Engineer — always open
Always hiring
toronto or remote · full time
- 01Run local & national SEO campaigns on real client accounts
- 02Technical audits, content strategy, link earning — the whole stack
- 03Work beside the web team: the sites you optimize are built in-house
- 04AI-search visibility is part of the job, not a buzzword
- 05Show rankings you earned, not certificates you collected
How it goes
Send
One link to the project you’re proudest of, and two lines on why. That’s the whole application.
Read
A person opens it, not a parser. We look at the work first and the resume after, if at all.
Talk
If the work lands, we set up a call. No panels, no whiteboard puzzles. Just how you think and what you want to make.
Trial
Usually a small paid project first. Real brief, real deadline, real money. Both sides find out how it feels to work together.
What working here is like
Honestly, in detail
A small team, no layers
The person who started the studio is in the file next to you. Feedback comes in hours, not scheduled review cycles, and it comes from someone who still does the work. That cuts both ways: there’s nowhere to hide behind process, and your name is on what ships. If you’ve been buried three managers deep somewhere, this will feel either terrifying or like oxygen. We’re looking for the second kind of person.
Design-first, everywhere
Design is the bar everything gets held to here: the websites, the ads, the edits, this careers page. Motion, type and interaction get argued about at a level most agencies would call excessive. If you’ve ever been told you care too much about a detail nobody will notice, you’ll be in good company. People do notice. That’s the whole bet the studio is built on.
Your work ships to real campaigns
The growth wing means nothing you make sits in a portfolio mockup. Pages get traffic, ads spend real budgets, edits get posted and measured. You’ll see numbers on your own work within days, which is equal parts thrilling and humbling. Designers here learn what converts, editors learn what holds attention, and everyone gets sharper because the scoreboard is public.
Remote-friendly, Toronto-rooted
The studio is rooted in Toronto and works with clients well beyond it. If you’re here, great: shoots and coffees happen in person. If you’re not, that has never been the reason a good portfolio went unanswered. What matters is enough overlap to talk, reliability on deadlines, and work that speaks for itself. Where you sit while making it is your business.
Small studio economics
There are no account layers padding invoices and no strategy decks pretending to be deliverables. Clients pay for work, so your week is mostly making things: designing, cutting, building, writing, tuning. That means less ceremony than a big agency and more range, since you’ll touch projects end to end. If you want to specialize into one narrow slice and stay there, a bigger shop will serve you better. If you want reps, this is reps.
How to actually get noticed
Skip the cover letter. Send the one project you’re proudest of, say what your hands actually did on it, and why you think it’s good. That last part matters most: taste shows in how people talk about their own work. A short, specific email with one strong link beats an attachment-heavy application every time. hello@brandmax.ca, subject line: your best project.
The odds, honestly
No portal. No parser. One human inbox, read end to end.No roles are posted right now. The page stays up anyway, because we hire when the right person shows up, not when a headcount plan says so.
Questions
Before you ask
One role is always open: SEO Engineer. Good SEO is rare, and we’d rather keep that door open year round than pretend we’re not looking. Beyond it, this page is a standing invitation — we hire when the right person shows up.
Yes. The studio is rooted in Toronto and it helps to be reachable in nearby hours, but good work has never gone unanswered because of a postcode. Shoots and some production days happen in person; most everything else travels fine.
Both, because we hire on the work, not the years. A junior with three sharp, finished projects beats a padded senior resume here every time. Just be honest about what your hands did on each piece.
Design and motion at the core, hand-built web on top: we write our own HTML, CSS and JavaScript more often than we reach for frameworks, and GSAP and WebGL show up a lot. The growth side runs campaigns on Google, Meta and TikTok, plus organic work on Reddit. Show us you can make things move and load fast; the specific tool matters less.
Yes. If we get to the trial stage, it’s a small, scoped project with a real brief and real money attached. We don’t ask anyone to work free to prove themselves.
There’s no formal program, but it’s a conversation we’re open to. Same rule as everyone else: send work. If it shows promise and hunger, we’ll talk about what an internship could look like.
Honest answer: we read everything, but we only reply when we see a possible fit. We’d rather tell you that plainly than promise a response we can’t keep. A short, specific email about one real project gives you the best odds.
No. We keep it simple: you get paid for the work, in money. No option pools, no vesting cliffs, no promises pinned to an exit that may never come.
Templated mass applications. If the email opens with "Dear Hiring Manager" and could have been sent to fifty agencies, it reads that way instantly. One specific note about one real project will always get further.