Designer (Brand & Systems)

Thursday; South Africa; A distancia; ZAR 442.000 - 618.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Thursday is a consumer tech company building the home of IRL dating: events, Trips, brand partnerships and an app. We’re hiring a designer who builds the machine—templates, components and AI pipelines that let our design output scale across social, CRM, product and ads.

If you’d rather create a system that outputs 500 city variants than design them one by one, this is for you. You’ll report to our Brand & Creative Lead and own end‑to‑end template libraries, AI integration, asset tagging and

Formación

• 3–5+ years as a brand, digital or social designer.
• Experience with app/UI design and marketing/brand work.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain templates so teams can produce on-brand assets.
• Run AI design tools in production for image/video generation and upscaling.
• Automate city, language and date variants via plugins or scripts.
• Design high‑craft pieces that templates can’t cover.
• Collaborate on a shared design system across app and marketing.

Conocimientos

Brand design

Digital design

UI design

AI design tools

Figma workflows

Herramientas

Midjourney

Flux

Firefly

Higgsfield

Runway

Krea

Figma

Descripción del empleo

Thursday is a consumer tech company building the home of IRL dating: singles events, Trips, brand partnerships and an app that gets people off their phones and meeting in real life.

We're hiring a designer who builds the machine. You'll make great-looking work across all of Thursday's products (IRL events, Trips, the app and brand partnerships) for social, CRM, product and ads. But most of your value will be in the templates, components and AI pipelines that let that work produce itself. If you'd rather build a system that makes 500 city variants than design them one by one, this is for you.

You'll report to our Brand & Creative Lead.

What you'll own

• Brand expression across touchpoints: visual design for the app, website, emails, ads, tickets, and event and venue materials that carry our brand values into everything customers see
• Template and component library: Figma components, variables and auto-layout templates for every recurring format (social, stories, CRM headers, event and city assets, ad sizes)
• The design side of our AI generation pipelines: brief in, on-brand assets out, resized and localised
• Day-to-day design requests routed from our tracker
• Visual consistency across AI tools, freelancers and templates
• An organised, tagged asset library that people and agents can find things in
• Partnership and Trips assets: pitch decks, partner campaign assets, Trips decks and creative
• A template set covering ads (Growth, creative strategist, social), partnership content and decks, Trips decks, web pages and email templates

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain templates so hosts, CRM, Growth and AI agents can produce on-brand assets without design time
• Run AI design tools in production: image and video generation, upscaling, background removal, motion, style references and seeds that reproduce the brand look
• Automate bulk city, date and language variants with Figma plugins, data-driven templates or scripts connected to our events feed
• Design the high‑craft pieces templates can’t: launches, campaigns, brand moments, key art
• Design app UI screens, flows and in‑app assets with product and dev, on a shared Figma design system so app and marketing look like one brand
• Make creative variants for testing with the paid media team and creative strategist, using Growth’s monthly creative performance report
• Support partnerships: join calls when needed and produce pitch decks and partner deliverables to agreed SLAs
• Track time and cost per asset, test new tools, and document what works and what doesn’t
• Tag and file new event and trip footage into the content library as it lands

Day to day

• Pick up routed briefs from the tracker each morning and update status as you go
• Template first, AI‑assisted second, bespoke only when needed
• Batch variant runs (cities, sizes, languages) and QA the output
• Submit work for QA with the Lead and iterate on feedback; feedback comes through the Lead, not host group chats
• Agree deadlines based on time needed and current workload; last‑minute requests don’t jump the queue by default

What success looks like

• 30 days: existing templates audited; first 10 core templates rebuilt as Figma components with variables
• 60 days: full template library for recurring formats; variant and standard requests turned around in under 24 hours
• 6 months: 60%+ of routine requests self‑served or pipeline‑produced; a documented AI prompt and style library that reproduces the brand look reliably

What you’ll bring

• 3–5+ years as a brand, digital or social designer, with a strong consumer‑brand portfolio
• App/UI design experience (mobile screens, flows, design systems) as well as marketing and brand design
• Production use of AI design tools (e.g. Midjourney, Flux, Firefly, Higgsfield, Runway, Krea), with examples of on‑brand output and the prompts behind them
• Some automation: Figma plugins, data merge, Zapier/Make or light scripting
• Fast, organised and comfortable with high volume in a ticketed workflow
• Reliable during core UK overlap hours, with strong written English
• Bonus: motion/video editing (After Effects, CapCut), Canva brand kits, Meta/TikTok ad creative

KPIs

Assets delivered per week · turnaround time · first‑time QA pass rate · % of requests template/pipeline‑produced · templates and prompts shipped · cost per asset

How it works

• Remote, based in South Africa
• Core UK overlap hours for meetings and reviews (e.g. 09:00–14:00 UK), flexible around ~8 hours a day
• Full‑time hours on a rolling 30‑day contractor agreement
• £20k–£28k (R440k–R615k) per year

Hiring process

• 30‑min screen (portfolio + a screen‑share of your AI tool setup and saved prompts)
• Take‑home (one Figma template with variables, 10 city variants via automation, 3 AI‑generated on‑brand images with prompts)
• 60‑min walkthrough interview (incl. a live template fix and QA of a batch of AI output)

4. References and final with the Founder and SLT.