Senior Motion Designer for Social & Gaming

Betway Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development programmes

Performance tool

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Red Interactive, part of Super Group, seeks a Senior Social Media Designer to craft visually compelling motion content for social platforms. You’ll fuse traditional design with AI-driven methods, delivering scalable, brand-led storytelling across Reels, TikTok, Shorts and stories.

You will collaborate with strategists and marketers, optimize content for engagement, and push brand identity forward through modular templates and innovative workflows.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator
• Strong short-form video editing and motion design capability
• Hands‑on experience with AI creative tools (generative visuals, text-to-video)
• Proficiency in social‑first content tools (CapCut or similar)
• Solid understanding of platform specs and formats (Reels, Shorts, etc)
• At least 5 years’ similar experience in a social media designer function

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and production of high-quality, short-form motion content (Reels, TikTok, Shorts, Stories, paid social video)
• Conceptualize and execute scroll-stopping motion-first creative aligned to campaign and always-on strategies
• Combine traditional design tools with AI-driven tools to scale creative output
• Translate brand, campaign, and cultural insights into engaging, platform-native storytelling
• Own the end-to-end motion design process, from concept to final export (animation, editing, sound, pacing)
• Collaborate with social strategists, community teams, copywriters, and performance marketers to deliver brand-led creative
• Optimise creative for platform algorithms, audience behaviours, and performance KPIs
• Build and maintain modular templates, toolkits, and motion systems to increase speed and consistency
• Leverage AI-assisted workflows to rapidly prototype, iterate, and personalise content
• Stay ahead of emerging social trends and translate them into brand executions
• Adapt and localise global assets into dynamic, social-first motion content
• Partner with influencers to ensure visual alignment of co-created content
• Drive creative testing (A/B and multivariate) and iterate on performance insights
• Ensure content meets brand guidelines, accessibility standards and platform best practices
• Contribute to evolution of brand’s motion identity and social design language
• Manage high-volume production workflows and mentor junior designers
• Present concepts and creative rationale confidently to stakeholders

Skills

After Effects

Premiere Pro

Photoshop

Illustrator

AI tools

Tools

CapCut

Job description

Red Interactive, part of Super Group, seeks a Senior Social Media Designer to craft visually compelling motion content for social platforms. You’ll fuse traditional design with AI-driven methods, delivering scalable, brand-led storytelling across Reels, TikTok, Shorts and stories.

You will collaborate with strategists and marketers, optimize content for engagement, and push brand identity forward through modular templates and innovative workflows.