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 our Marketing team. You will craft on-brand digital assets for retail media, banners, video and CRM, while collaborating with the Design and Marketing teams.

The role requires 3-5 years of Graphic Design experience, a relevant degree, and strong Photoshop/Illustrator skills with a solid grasp of digital/mobile design and typography.

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 animation/video program knowledge advantageous.
• Strong Photoshop & Illustrator skills.
• Understanding of digital and mobile design principles.
• Knowledge of typography, colour and composition.
• Appreciation for brand design.

Responsibilities

• Support Marketing with digital design for banners, video, CRM and more.
• Stay updated on design trends to deliver cutting-edge work.
• Brainstorm and storyboard; contribute ideas in sessions.
• Collaborate with design, marketing, Retail and Promotions teams.
• Deliver work on time and within brand CI.
• Develop Retail Media go-to-market materials (pitch decks, flyers, social posts).

Skills

Self-management

Communication

Graphic design

AI prompting basics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Illustrator

After Effects

Adobe Creative Suite

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.

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.

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 is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking.

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

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