Senior Digital Designer Job in South Africa April 2024

Senior Digital Designer Job in South Africa April 2024

Senior Digital Designer Job in Cape Town, Century City April 2024

 
Are you a seasoned designer, creative thinker and visual problem-solver who is looking for an exciting opportunity to springboard your career?
We are a dynamic and rapidly expanding online sports brand targeting several countries… A new role has just opened up in the Cape Town office within our young and growing epic design team for an experienced Senior Digital Designer to take the helm.
You will play an integral in helping mould and grow a young and expanding team, who have been tasked with producing engaging and effective designs across a diverse set of media, including: onsite content, offsite promotional & campaign marketing, newsletters & traditional above the line advertising mediums
You will need to be confident in your own creative direction abilities, and willing to mentor less senior team members to improve their design skills. You will need to be a keen team player, a self-starter, a multitasker and come armed with original approaches and innovative ideas. If this sounds up your alley – we’d love to have a chat with you.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:

• Owning the brand identity and building and maintaining a consistent brand image through creative conceptualisation, design, layout, illustration and photography for a variety of digital and traditional media.
• Conceptualising, designing, editing, and delivering digital designs, including digital marketing campaigns (emails and campaign landing pages), daily newsletters (email), social media graphics, infographics, onsite and offsite banners, and webpage layout design (there is literally never a dull moment here)
• Design and layout of traditional marketing and business support materials.
• Ensuring high-quality graphic and usability standards, maintaining the company’s image, identity and communication style
• Managing file library and archive of creative content
• Managing multiple projects/tasks at once and prioritise tasks
• Performing quality control of all printed or published materials
• Collaborating with team members to determine objectives, style, and approaches necessary to complete creative projects, whilst adhering to branding standards
• Participating in brainstorming and idea generation for campaigns
• Staying up-to-date with digital design trends
• Play a role in mentoring and training mid-level and junior designers.
• Managing and prepare files for print, review printer proofs and press approvals before release.
• Managing workflow efficiently and take responsibility for timing and delivery

Requirements:

• Diploma/Degree in Graphic / Digital Design
• Minimum three years of design experience
• An awe-inspiring portfolio
• Good working knowledge of Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Experience in creating digital assets to support marketing campaigns
• Demonstrable experience/portfolio designing for at least one of the following digital channels (website, newsletters, banners, social media)
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Good time management skills (timeous about reviews and deadlines)
• Follow instructions according to briefs.

Advantageous

• Eat, sleep and breathe digital
• Experience working in an e-commerce or online media design role
• A genuine interest in sports
• Experience in email marketing/newsletters design
• Experience in onsite design (web banners, landing pages, microsites)
• Experience in offsite design (banners, infographics)
• Experience in campaign conceptualisation
• Experience in After Effects
• DTP skills
• Experience in wireframing
• Knowledge of UX design and optimisation
• Knowledge in web development (HTML/CSS) a major plus
• Thrives under pressure, in fast-paced environment with quick turnarounds
• Awesome attitude, fun to work with, a passion for your work
• Experience in knowledge of mobile/responsive development and design trends

Personal skills/attributes

• You are creative, passionate, motivated, driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit, resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed
• Your Photoshop skills are off the charts, you don’t like to brag but you’re kind of a big deal
• You love all things design…you live for typography, you believe strong colour palettes will make the world a better place, you constantly seek out new techniques to make you better faster stronger. Your layers are perfectly organised because you couldn’t sleep at night otherwise
• Not afraid of change; you embrace it. Learning and exploring come naturally
• You define the word proactive, always thinking three steps ahead of everyone around you
• Solution is your middle name. You’re creative and resourceful – there’s no problem you won’t find a solution to
• You live to make the work, and the environment in which the work is created, better. You have a quality focus and you never stop trying to improve the outcome

If you think you could be a good match for this role please send your CV to recruitment@eazibet.com.
Contact details
EaziBet
recruitment@eazibet.com