Graphic Designer

Travelopia; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 30 000 - 60 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in adventure travel is seeking a talented Graphic Designer to enhance their brand through creative visual storytelling. In this role, you will produce a variety of marketing materials, from print publications to digital assets, ensuring the highest quality in design. You will collaborate with a dynamic team, bringing your passion for design and travel to life while adhering to brand guidelines. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a company that values creativity and a diverse work environment, where your contributions will help shape unforgettable travel experiences for customers worldwide.

Benefits

Medical Aid subsidy

Employee Assistance Program

Life Insurance

Disability Benefits

Funeral Cover

Employee Group Travel Benefits

21 Days Annual Leave

Birthday Off

Qualifications

• Professional experience in graphic design, preferably in the travel industry.
• Proficient in Adobe Suite and Microsoft Office, with excellent desktop publishing skills.

Responsibilities

• Create marketing assets including print publications and digital designs.
• Edit video content for various channels and produce dynamic motion graphics.

Skills

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Microsoft Office

Video Editing

Motion Graphics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design

Relevant Design Certifications

Tools

Adobe Suite

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

At Exodus, we love adventure travel and always have. We first took a group of travelers to the Himalayas 50 years ago and have since expanded to every continent of the planet. Today, we offer hundreds of itineraries across the globe, focusing on responsible travel that supports local communities and preserves the environment while aiming to provide meaningful experiences to all who travel with us.

We are looking to hire a Graphic Designer to join our team! Reporting to the Creative Lead. You´ll aim to help Exodus run a quality design resource internally.

In this pivotal role, you’ll be responsible for the production of a range of marketing assets, used across the business to project our brand image to new and existing customers – essentially showing them that we are the best adventure travel company to book their next trip with.

What we’ll offer:

• Medical Aid subsidy - R1,300 pm (Discovery Health with a choice of 25 plans)
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Risk Benefits: Life Insurance 3 x annual salary; Disability 75% flat (waiting period 3 months); Funeral cover R15,000 (member & spouse), and R7,500 for child 6 - 13 yards (under 6 years R3,540)
• Employee Group Travel benefits
• 21 days annual leave plus SA public holidays
• Birthday Off
• Employee Group Travel benefits
• Hybrid working (job specific)
  
  

What you´ll do:

• You’ll be responsible for in-house graphic design and artwork, including print publications, leaflets, magazine/newspaper adverts, OOH adverts, and merchandise.
• You will also be skilled in digital design to produce in-house digital design projects including social media creative, display advertising, website banners, digital OOH and email graphics.
• You’ll be editing video content for a multitude of channels where video footage is needed, such as TV advertising, paid social, YouTube and events.
• Proficient in creating dynamic motion graphics and animations to enhance digital storytelling and elevate the brand. Covering any channels from display (HTML/HTML5) to social media.
• You’ll provide a consistently high level of quality and design according to existing brand guidelines across all internally produced marketing material and documents.
  
  

What you´ll bring:

• You have professional experience—preferably within the travel industry—as well as excellent desktop publishing skills within the full Adobe Suite including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. You’re a high-level Microsoft Office user—particularly of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Publisher—and you are accustomed to working with content from colleagues.
• You’re a creative individual who can deliver concepts through to final artwork, who has a true passion for design and branding along with an acute understanding of how to make a brand identity come to life through many different channels. You can design for a range of communication platforms, from offline printing and documentation to web design publishing—not to mention animated display banners.
• Visual aesthetics come naturally to you and you are obsessive about the universal design rules when building brand-new creative concepts
• You genuinely care about the details, proof-reading final designs and always ensuring spacing, leading, and kerning are aesthetically correct—and you’re willing to go above and beyond to ensure you produce highest quality graphic design possible.
• You’re friendly and approachable, with an ambitious attitude and the ability to prioritize your workload whilst maintaining a flexible and proactive approach to your responsibilities, whether you’re working autonomously or as part of a team. Impressive organization and communication are in your nature—you’ve got proven experience managing multiple projects at a time, establishing an effective workflow to keep track of upcoming jobs, works in progress, and completed tasks.
• Having a keen interest in travel—specifically adventure travel—is also desirable.
  
  

We believe people perform best when they can be their true selves, and diverse teams drive better results. We’re committed to encouraging a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where everyone can succeed.

Travelopia ensures an inclusive work environment for all. If you need accommodations during the recruitment process, please advise us here: [e-mail]