Senior Designer & Manager

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Senior Designer & Manager to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This position reports to the Head of Design.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and rolling out creative elements for onsite and offsite marketing campaigns
• Working collaboratively with the design team, broader marketing team, the retail and promotions departments, commercial department, external suppliers and creative partners to define creative concepts for campaigns and roll out
• Manage a team of designers, delegating tasks and overseeing their work to ensure that all visual content aligns with the company's brand and marketing goals
• Consistently delivering work on time
• Working quickly and efficiently with exceptional attention to detail
• Overseeing design projects, from conception to delivery
• Creating and rolling out design templates
• Refining design team processes and standards
• Review studio and external design work to ensure high quality and in-spec
• Implementing and delivering on feedback from senior management and peers
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments and tools
• Maintain brand consistency throughout all our marketing projects
• Mentor junior employees

Attributes required:

• Excellent self-management and communication skills
• Proven work experience as a Senior Designer
• Proficient with Adobe Creative suite, notably Photoshop, Illustrator
• Experience with motion-graphics advantageous
• An understanding of typography, colour, composition and how these elements work together for a design solution.
• Understand the importance of brand design

Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor Degree or Diploma in Digital Design
• 5+ years work experience

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference