Marketing Manager (Digital and Creative)

Kontak Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 502,000 - 614,000; Full time

Job summary

Kontak Recruitment seeks a Marketing Manager (Digital and Creative) in Johannesburg for a fast-growing SA fintech. You will own briefs to launches, drive creative across channels, and present in boardroom-level conversations with a major corporate partner.

Five+ years in marketing with a strong digital focus, a portfolio of campaigns, and hands-on social media/content experience are essential. Hybrid-ready, national rollout, room to grow.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of marketing experience with a strong digital focus.
• A portfolio of creative campaigns you personally conceptualised and delivered end to end.
• Hands-on experience managing social media, content production and digital performance.
• Ability to drive campaigns from brief to live without hand-holding.
• Experience managing budgets and working with external suppliers or freelancers.
• Advantageous: fintech/payments/consumer tech experience.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualise and lead campaigns targeting consumers and merchants across channels.
• Brief, direct and sign off creative work while bringing fresh ideas to the table.
• Own and protect the brand voice across every platform.
• Plan and manage social media, YouTube and digital channels with a performance mindset.
• Collaborate with the brand ambassador and content studio on video content.
• Track campaign performance and report results to the founder.
• Serve as primary marketing and PR contact for the corporate partner’s teams.
• Align co-marketing activity with the national rollout.
• Plan in-market activations and event presence.
• Build and manage the marketing budget with the founder.
• Manage agencies and freelancers brought on to support activity.

Skills

Digital marketing

Campaign management

Content creation

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Social media management

Education

Marketing degree

Tools

YouTube

Content creation tools

Job description

Marketing Manager (Digital and Creative) –Johannesburg.

A fast-moving South African fintech in the payments space is on the verge of something big. The product is live, the users are growing, and a national rollout is underway. This is the moment when the right marketer can walk in, shape the entire creative direction, and put their name to a campaign that reaches the whole country.

The team is small and sharp, decisions move fast, and the founder is hands-on. There is no marketing department to hide in. This role belongs to someone who thrives with a blank canvas, a bold idea, and the drive to see it through from brief to launch.

This is not a management role in the traditional sense. There is no team to delegate to. The successful candidate will be the one doing the work: writing the briefs, driving the creative, running the channels, and showing up as the face of marketing in boardroom-level conversations with a large corporate partner.

The brand ambassador will report into this role, and an influencer-led content engine is already generating results. The task now is to build the strategy around it.

Salary: R45 000 – R55 000 CTC per month.

What’s in it for you:

• Creative freedom at startup speed, backed by the reach of a national corporate partnership
• A chance to build the marketing strategy from the ground up, with real input into budget and direction
• Direct access to the founder, where your ideas are heard and actually put into action
• A national rollout to lead and put your name to
• Room to grow into a senior marketing role as the business scales
• Office-based in Johannesburg North, with hybrid flexibility available over time

Minimum Requirements:

• Five or more years of marketing experience with a strong digital focus
• A portfolio of creative campaigns you personally conceptualised and delivered end to end
• Demonstrated ability to take a campaign from brief to live without hand-holding
• Hands-on experience managing social media, content production and digital performance
• Confidence working with senior corporate stakeholders and navigating formal approval processes
• Experience managing budgets and working with external suppliers or freelancers
• Advantageous
  • Advertising agency background
  • Experience in fintech, payments, banking or consumer tech
  • Experience marketing to both consumers and businesses
  • PR experience
  • Startup experience
  • Relevant qualification in marketing, advertising or communications
  • Background checks will be conducted with your consent.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conceptualise and lead campaigns targeting consumers, for the people getting paid and merchants across all channels
• Brief, direct and sign off creative work while continuously bringing fresh ideas to the table
• Own and protect the brand voice across every platform and touchpoint
• Plan and manage social media, YouTube and digital channels with a performance mindset
• Collaborate with the in-house brand ambassador and content studio on video and explainer content
• Track campaign performance and report on results to the founder
• Serve as the primary marketing and PR contact for the corporate partner’s marketing and communications teams
• Align co-marketing activity, approvals and timelines in support of the national rollout
• Plan in-market activations, point-of-sale materials and event presence
• Coordinate with operations on the logistics behind activations
• Build and manage the marketing budget in collaboration with the founder
• Manage any agencies and freelancers brought on to support activity