Salary on offer is R200k to R300k per annum CTC and is based in Umhlanga
Position Summary:
A dynamic young technology company with a core focus on providing disruptive financial services to small business owners in South Africa is seeking the services of a Digital Designer.
Their brand is brave, honest, slightly cheeky, innovative, customer-centric and service driven.
You will need to be an A-team player, with a cool head and creative mind to work closely with the Marketing Director to execute against and expand the e-commerce and digital advertising initiatives.
The Role:
The Digital Designer leads and produces the design function.. The position is responsible for delivering effective, aesthetic, on-brand, and on-strategy creative for websites, web pages, product graphics (including art direction of photography), email promotional creative, email templates, social media graphics, and banner ads.
The Digital Designer will work closely with the Marketing Director, Digital Marketing Manager and Managing director.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in digital design, graphic design, graphic communications or related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years successful professional design experience, preferably at a digital agency or in-house Web team for a product-driven business.
• Strong portfolio of design work, showing a solution to business problems through effective design.
• Able to present concepts and lead internal teams to the correct solution.
• Experience in web marketing/web design with a strong knowledge of HTML, Adobe Creative Suite, Affinity Designer, FTP, web design and development principles
• Deep knowledge of Web design processes
• Experience designing e-commerce websites and advertising
• Strong work ethic and personal accountability
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong time management
• Good interpersonal skills
Job Duties
1. Produce the design and production for websites, product graphics, web logos, social media graphics and banners, static and rich banner ads, email campaigns, and email templates. While some projects may require directing external resources, the role is expected to be hands-on.
2. Translate product positioning, existing research, and offline/online Marketing strategies into effective designs.
3. Work with our e-commerce team, internal and external developers to ensure aesthetics are aligned with usability, accessibility, and web standards. Work with developers to ensure proper implementation within a web environment and ensure consistency and integrity of the creative vision.
4. Work with directors to translate and create marketing requirements into compelling, appropriate campaigns and designs.
5. Manage and produce digital design work, including banner sizing and versioning.
6. Create and translate web and app wireframes into simple, easy-to-use User Interfaces.
7. Ensure consistency of brand and creative across all digital customer touch points.
8. Provide design support to other business lines to create product graphics, logos, identity design, or other similar offline graphics and occasionally print flyers.
9. Other duties as assigned.
If this sounds like your IDEAL job, then why not send us a copy of your cv to mkemp@prostop.co.za and lets chat
