Hospitality Social Media Designer & Video Pro

Gourmet Marketing; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Gourmet Marketing seeks a Social Media Manager with strong design and video editing skills to produce paid social creative for boutique hotels, restaurants, and spirits brands. This hands-on role focuses on short-form video, static, carousels, and story assets that perform in campaigns.

The candidate will work with the paid media team to optimize creative, leverage client assets, and iterate based on performance insights. Fluency in English and strong typography are essential.

Qualifications

• Portfolio or reel demonstrating short-form video editing and social advertising design.
• Proficiency in professional video editing software.
• Proficiency in professional design software, with strong typography and layout skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce paid and organic social creative across video, static, carousel, and story formats for hospitality clients
• Edit short-form video content optimized for each platform's native format and specifications
• Design social advertising creative aligned with client brand standards and campaign objectives
• Develop creative variations to support structured testing across audiences, placements, and messaging
• Adapt client photography, video, and user-generated content into campaign-ready assets
• Build and maintain monthly content calendars for assigned client accounts
• Collaborate with the paid media team to align creative with campaign strategy and performance goals
• Review creative performance data and apply findings to future production

Skills

Social media content

Short-form video editing

Social advertising design

Copywriting for social

Typography & layout

English writing

Tools

Video editing software

Design software (Adobe)

Job description

Gourmet Marketing seeks a Social Media Manager with strong design and video editing skills to produce paid social creative for boutique hotels, restaurants, and spirits brands. This hands-on role focuses on short-form video, static, carousels, and story assets that perform in campaigns.

The candidate will work with the paid media team to optimize creative, leverage client assets, and iterate based on performance insights. Fluency in English and strong typography are essential.