Digital Graphic Designer

takealot.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

takealot.com in Cape Town is seeking a Digital Graphic Designer to join the Marketing team. You will design digital assets for retail media, banners, video, and CRM, while staying ahead of design trends and technologies.

You’ll brainstorm, storyboard, and collaborate with marketing and promotions teams, delivering high-quality work on time and aligned with brand templates and CI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design
• 3-5 years’ experience in Graphic Design
• Excellent self-management and communication skills
• Visual effects/ After effects or any other animation/video program knowledge advantageous
• Great Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator skills
• Good understanding of digital and mobile design principles
• An understanding of typography, colour, composition and how these elements work together for a design solution
• Understand the importance of brand design

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Marketing team with digital design executions for all retail media solutions including display banners, video, CRM and more
• Keeping abreast of advancements in new technologies and techniques, contemporary trends in design to deliver cutting edge work
• Brainstorming and conceptualizing ideas as well as storyboarding
• Participating in idea sessions to share new design perspectives and ideas
• Adding effects/elements to enhance motion graphics
• Creation of Retail Media Go-to-market materials (Pitchdecks, Flyers, Social posts etc)
• Working collaboratively with the design team, broader Marketing team & the Retail and Promotions departments
• Consistently delivering work on time
• Working within the brand CI and templates
• Working quickly and efficiently with exceptional attention to detail
• Implementing and delivering on feedback from senior management and peers
• Improving the design & retail media collaboration through process documentation and prioritization

Skills

Self-management

Communication skills

Digital design principles

Typography

Brand design

Generative AI prompting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

After Effects

Job description

takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Digital Graphic Designer to join our Marketing team in Cape Town.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Marketing team with digital design executions for all retail media solutions including display banners, video, CRM and more
• Keeping abreast of advancements in new technologies and techniques, contemporary trends in design to deliver cutting edge work.
• Brainstorming and conceptualizing ideas as well as storyboarding.
• Participating in idea sessions to share new design perspectives and ideas.
• Adding effects/elements to enhance motion graphics.
• Creation of Retail Media Go-to-market materials (Pitchdecks, Flyers, Social posts etc)
• Working collaboratively with the design team, broader Marketing team & the Retail and Promotions departments.
• Consistently delivering work on time.
• Working within the brand CI and templates.
• Working quickly and efficiently with exceptional attention to detail
• Implementing and delivering on feedback from senior management and peers.
• Improving the design & retail media collaboration through process documentation and prioritization

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design
• 3- 5 years’ experience in Graphic Design
• Excellent self-management and communication skills
• Visual effects/ After effects or any other animation/video program knowledge advantageous
• Great Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator skills
• Good understanding of digital and mobile design principles
• An understanding of typography, colour, composition and how these elements work together for a design solution
• Understand the importance of brand design

Attributes Required

• Excellent self-management and communication skills
• Visual effects/ After Effects or any other animation/video program knowledge advantageous
• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, notably Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Good understanding of digital and mobile design principles.
• An understanding of typography, colour, composition and how these elements work together for a design solution.
• Understand the importance of brand design.
• An understanding of generative AI prompting, model capabilities and how these elements work together for innovative and efficient creative outcomes is advantageous.

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 Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking.

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.