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# Art Director at Clutch Technologies Inc.

- **Company:** Clutch Technologies Inc.
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clutch/jobs/6250295004

## Job description

About Clutch:

We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Are you game?

Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car buying and selling experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that’s just the beginning. Named to The Globe and Mail’s list of Canada’s Top Growing Companies for six consecutive years and also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Altos Ventures, BMO Capital Partners, Canaan, Real Ventures, and others. To learn more, visit [clutch.ca](https://clutch.ca).

About the role:

We’re looking for an Art Director to lead concept development for Clutch. Our creative team executes at a high bar; this role adds the thinking behind it. You’ll turn business and audience insight into strategically sound concepts, then art-direct them across campaigns, product, social, and retail.

This is a hands-on role for a master of craft who is fluent across design tools and formats and obsessed with getting the work right, whether that means building rigorous design systems or pushing a bolder idea than anyone expected. If you’re an Art Director looking to really contribute to a brand's success and actually move projects from concept to reality, this is the place for you.

What you’ll do:

- Lead concept development and ideation with the Creative Director for campaigns, brand moments, and customer experiences, grounding ideas in business context and audience insight.
- Own daily art direction: set the visual bar, direct photo, video, motion, and design production, and keep the work sharp from first sketch to final asset.
- Run creative reviews and approval within the design team and external partners, giving clear, actionable feedback that makes the work better and the team stronger.
- Move fluidly between concept and hands-on execution across a range of design tools and mediums, building out designs across product, video, experiential and digital.
- Concept and service the marketing departments advertising needs, building tools that contribute towards our self service ‘creative engine’.
- Use data and creative learnings to sharpen future concepts and continuously improve the work.
- Increase the creative team's output whilst raising craft and originality.

What Success Looks Like:

- Develop bold, strategically grounded concepts for campaigns and brand experiences.
- The quality and craft of the team's creative work has visibly risen through your art direction, feedback, and hands-on design skills.
- The creative team is shipping more, faster, and the standard hasn't slipped.
- Audience insights, business context, and performance learnings are shaping the work, and each round of creative is better than the last.

What You Bring:

- 5+ years in a creative agency or in-house brand team, including 3+ years in an art direction role, with campaigns that shipped and ran in market.
- Strong art direction and design craft. Portfolio required, we’ll want to see shipped work and your specific role on it.
- Experience leading shoots and directing photographers, videographers and freelancers on set, and reviewing and approving day-to-day creative within an established brand system.
- Ability to apply a brand system consistently across campaigns, marketing, product and customer touchpoints.
- Collaborative by default; this role is in-office at 60 Adelaide St.
- Nice to have: experience in automotive, retail or e-commerce, or with high-volume product photography.

Why You'll Love It At Clutch:

- Join the start of an exciting team as we build the next household Canadian brand, at one of Canada’s largest and fastest-growing B2C startups.
- Own the concept. You’re not executing someone else’s brief; you’re the person turning insight into the idea, then art-directing it all the way through.
- Ship in weeks, not quarters. Real performance data on every round, so you see what landed and make the next one sharper.
- One brand, no client churn. Go deep on a single brand with a direct line to the Creative Director and leadership, with no layers of account management between you and the decision.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits from day one, plus room to grow into senior creative leadership as the team scales.

Employment Type: New, Permanent Full-Time

Compensation & Benefits:

- Salary range: $95,000 - $120,000 annually.

- Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, dental, vision, prescriptions, life insurance, and dependent coverage; starting from day 1.

- Pay decisions reflect skills, performance, market benchmarking, responsibilities, and working conditions.

Clutch is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process, please email talent@clutch.ca.

We use AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess applications. Final hiring decisions are made by our team.

## About Clutch Technologies Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Canada’s largest online used-car retailer, buying, reconditioning, and selling vehicles directly to consumers through a fully digital, vertically integrated experience.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, growth stage)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2016 (operations began 2017 in Halifax)
- **Founders**: Stephen Seibel, Andrew Dolinski, Chris Dolinski

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Online used‑car retailing, automotive e‑commerce
- Target customers: B2C – individual car buyers and sellers across Canada (Ontario, Atlantic Canada, and British Columbia)
- Mission: “Reinventing how Canadians buy and sell cars” – making the transaction effortless, honest, and transparent.

## Products & Services
- **Clutch Retail Platform (SaaS‑inspired marketplace)**: A fully online car‑buying and selling experience. Customers browse a curated inventory, get an instant data‑driven offer for their trade‑in, purchase with financing, and receive home delivery with a 10‑day money‑back guarantee.
- **Vehicle Financing**: In‑house financing options offered during checkout.
- **Inspection & Reconditioning Services**: In‑house mechanical inspections and cosmetic reconditioning at company‑owned facilities (Mississauga, Halifax, Richmond).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; a 2025 funding round reset the valuation “slightly above” the 2021 peak of approximately C$575 million [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(company))
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – at least C$217 million including debt (C$7M seed, C$60M Series A/2021, C$100M Series B, and C$50M in 2025 from Altos Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: D1 Capital Partners, Canaan Partners, Altos Ventures, Real Ventures, BrandProject, BMO, Upper90, FJ Labs
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Revenue of C$320 million in 2024, up ~81% YoY; reached profitability
  - Cumulative C$1.7 billion paid out to Canadian vehicle sellers, 95,000+ cars bought/sold
  - Re‑entered British Columbia (Richmond) in August 2025 after a 2023 exit
  - Opened a new inspection facility in Mississauga
  - Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Globe & Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies (2025 rank: 132nd)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical integration**: Clutch owns the full supply chain – purchasing, inspecting, reconditioning, listing, financing, and delivering – enabling tight quality control and cost efficiency.
- **Proprietary technology**: Custom‑built pricing engine using machine learning, VIN decoding, automated title transfers, and inventory routing. No off‑the‑shelf dealership software.
- **Data‑driven pricing**: Real‑time offers informed by millions of data points (make, mileage, condition, regional demand).
- **Trust and transparency**: Non‑negotiable upfront prices, 10‑day money‑back guarantee, and a “radically transparent” culture that reduces traditional dealership friction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Profitable growth**: After a 2023 downturn and 65% workforce reduction, the company shifted from “aggressive growth to profitability at all costs.” Focus on margin improvement and operational efficiency.
- **Expansion in Western Canada**: Re‑entered British Columbia with a wholesale‑focused model; aims to bring direct‑to‑consumer sales back over time.
- **Tech‑enabled scale**: Continue investing in in‑house software, ML model retraining, and automation to handle growing transaction volumes without proportional headcount increase.
- **Inventory sourcing**: Prioritise purchases directly from individual sellers (vs. wholesale auctions) to keep margins competitive.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers own large domains, deploy multiple times a day with feature flags, and work directly with operations. Stack is built from scratch – no legacy dealership software.
- **Autonomy & ownership**: “Create your own path and own your work” – cross‑functional teams with direct lines to the field.
- **Compensation**: Competitive base pay plus equity (stock options for roles that shape the company’s future).
- **Benefits**: Medical, dental, wellness support; generous time off and parental leave.
- **Work mode**: Primarily office‑based at locations in Toronto (HQ), Mississauga, Halifax, and Richmond (BC). Field Operations and Production roles are on‑site; engineering roles appear to be in‑office as well (no explicit remote‑first policy).
- **People principles**: Radically transparent, always improving, reliably clutch (go‑above‑and‑beyond), people first – values strongly emphasised in internal culture.

## Sources
1. [clutch.ca/about](https://www.clutch.ca/about) – Company overview, mission, key stats ($1.7B paid, 95,000+ cars, 650+ employees)
2. [clutch.ca/careers](https://www.clutch.ca/careers) – Perks, values, engineering culture, employee count (450), annual revenue ($700M reported; note discrepancy with Wikipedia’s C$320M for 2024)
3. [boards.greenhouse.io/clutch](https://boards.greenhouse.io/clutch) – Current job openings, description of teams, investor list
4. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(company)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(company)) – History, funding rounds, revenue (C$320M in 2024), valuation, employee count (~510 in 2025), recognition
5. [ca.linkedin.com/company/clutch-canada](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/clutch-canada) – Company LinkedIn page (headcount, location, industry)

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