The Ideal Candidate

You have three or more years of experience in producing product-related content, preferably within SaaS technology, digital auth or payments sectors. You excel at translating complex technical information into clear, accessible content for diverse audiences, from customer service representatives through technical administrators. Proactive and inquisitive, you are comfortable engaging with engineers and technical staff to distill key insights. You are adept at both structuring and creating content across various media, including training materials, specifications, guides, video transcripts, and schematics. Collaborative by nature, you thrive in a team environment and effectively coordinate with teams to deliver cohesive and impactful product communications.

The Role

As a Product Content Specialist, you will:

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our card payment authentication products (incl. 3DS ACS, 3DS Server MPI, 3DS Directory Server), fraud risk intelligence products (signal and rules processing) and customer authentication products (biometrics, device signals, customer identity, OTPs, etc.)
• Create and structure high-quality, engaging content that effectively communicates product features, benefits, and usage to a variety of audiences.
• Think like a business analyst to proactively gather the right information through interacting with developers, technical documents, and other resources, to achieve outcomes.
• Balance tasks such as coordinating inputs from others, developing drafts, synthesizing complex concepts into understandable forms, and presenting ideas for deliberation before formalizing content.
• Tailor content to meet the needs of different audiences (personas) and stakeholders, ensuring clarity and relevance.
• Collaborate closely with your manager, a technical writer and a graphic designer to produce cohesive and visually appealing content.
• Contribute to the development of training materials, product guides, product specifications, customer communications, video scripts, schematics, and more.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve content quality and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Content Creation: Produce clear, concise, and engaging product content for various audiences and platforms, including but not limited to product guides, training courses, reference portals, animation transcripts and customer communications.
• Content Governance: structure, organize and maintain all published product materials on the Entersekt Knowledge Centre (online reference portal).
• Information Gathering: Actively seek out information from internal wiki resources, engineers and technical personnel to inform content development.
• Concept Synthesis & Structuring: Distill complex technical concepts into an understandable structure and product messaging. This may include supporting diagrams, visuals, or customer communications.
• Management & Coordination: Manage collaboration with team members and stakeholders to ensure content accuracy and consistency. Balance multiple tasks including drafting, reviewing, and finalizing content, while meeting deadlines.
• Stakeholder Communication: Present concepts to management for deliberation and incorporate feedback effectively.
• Quality Assurance: Edit and proofread content to maintain high standards of quality and professionalism.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Experience: 3+ years in product content creation, preferably in SaaS technology or payments industries.
• Technical Acumen: Ability to understand, structure and communicate complex digital products and authentication methods. 
• Proactive Inquiry: Skilled at asking pertinent questions to extract necessary information from technical teams.
• Writing Skills: Exceptional writing and editing abilities, with a focus on clarity and audience engagement.
• Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with, or ability to learn quickly about, digital 3DS products, fraud risk products and customer authentication products.
• Audience Adaptability: Proven ability to tailor content for various audiences and comprehend their unique needs.
• Collaboration: Strong track record of working effectively within cross-functional teams.
• Tools & Software: Highly proficient in Office 365 across Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneDrive. Proficiency with technical content writing like Markdown and PlantUML preferred. Understanding of Gitlab and VuePress hosting is a plus.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree. 

Personality Attributes

• Communicative: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and effectively.
• Inquisitive: Naturally curious and unafraid to seek clarification to fully understand complex topics.
• Self-Reliant: Able to independently gather and synthesize information without over-reliance on others.
• Detail-Oriented: Meticulous attention to detail in all aspects of work.
• Organized: Strong organizational skills, capable of managing multiple priorities and projects.
• Proactive: A strong sense of initiative and the ability to work independently.
• Creative: Innovative thinker who can bring fresh ideas to content development.
• Adaptable: Flexible and able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Mission

We’re on a mission to help more people thrive in tech — becoming the central place for software makers to build great careers and for companies to build winning teams.

Within the Marketing team at OfferZen, our focus is to grow and engage our community of developers and companies through valuable content, events, reports, tools, and campaigns.

Design plays a key role in this — it’s how our brand shows up in the world, how we stay distinct in a market that often looks the same, and how we move from ideas to impact at pace.

As a Marketing Graphic Designer, your mission is to bring our brand to life across the full funnel while helping us scale how we design and deliver — through high-quality creative, reusable systems, and well-executed brand touchpoints like swag and events.

About the role

This role is focused on strong execution with room to grow. *Please note: This is a 12-month contract role that requires occasional visit to our Cape Town office. 

You’ll work closely with the marketing team and alongside a design lead, taking ideas and turning them into clear, high-quality visual outputs across campaigns, content, and brand touchpoints.

A key part of the role is not just delivering assets, but helping us move from one-off design work toward a more scalable system — through templates, reusable assets, and consistent visual patterns.

You’ll also play an important role in bringing the brand to life beyond digital — owning how swag is designed, produced, and delivered across campaigns and events, and helping build simple, reliable systems that ensure quality, consistency, and readiness at scale.

Outcomes

• We consistently ship high-quality, on-brand creative across campaigns, content, and community
• Design is no longer a bottleneck for marketing delivery
• We are building a growing library of reusable assets (templates, illustrations, components)
• The OfferZen brand feels consistent, distinct, and recognisable across all touchpoints
• The team is empowered with templates and tools to self-serve where appropriate
• OfferZen Swag is high-quality, on-brand, and event-ready at all times, supported by efficient systems for inventory, ordering, and cost control

Responsibilities

Design and deliver high-quality visual assets across a range of marketing needs:

• Ad creatives for paid campaigns
• Campaign collateral (banners, landing visuals, email assets)
• Blog, report, and social media creatives
• Sales and internal enablement materials
• Event and community assets
• Swag (t-shirts, stickers, print materials, etc.)

Contribute to improving how we design over time:

• Create and maintain templates to reduce from-scratch work
• Support the development of our illustration and asset library (e.g. dinocorn system)
• Apply and maintain consistency across all outputs
• Iterate on feedback and continuously improve the quality and impact of designs

Own the swag system:

• Manage swag ordering end-to-end (quotes, suppliers, approvals, timelines)
• Maintain accurate swag inventory and run regular stock takes with help of our office manager
• Ensure swag is shipped on time events, campaigns, and candidate placements with the help of our office manager
• Ensure all events are fully prepared with the right swag, in the right quantities, on time
• Identify opportunities to simplify and standardise the swag system (cost effective options, reusable designs, better processes)

What will make you a good fit

We’re looking for someone with strong design fundamentals who wants to grow into a more senior designer or marketer over time.

Core requirements:

• 2-3 years experience in graphic design
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates layout, typography, illustration and visual clarity
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Capable illustrator, able to generate on brand assets
• Comfortable designing across multiple formats (digital and print)
• Super organised, proactive and detail-orientated 

Nice to have:

• Experience designing for marketing or brand 
• Exposure to templates or design system
• Familiarity with Figma or similar tools
• Ability to animate / create motion graphics
• Basic knowledge of AI implementation in design workflows

How you work

• You care about clarity and craft, not just aesthetics
• You’re comfortable working from briefs and iterating on feedback
• You have strong attention to detail and take pride in polished output
• You’re proactive and look for ways to improve how things are done
• You’re curious and invested in growing your skills over time

The OfferZen Story

OfferZen is on a mission to improve the experience of finding work for people involved in making software, from developers to designers and data scientists through the utilisation of our world class online recruitment marketplace. We do this by flipping the traditional recruitment model on its head and getting companies to reach out to candidates with upfront offers.

Over the last 10 years, we have managed to make a large dent in the South African online tech recruitment marketplace - and we're speeding up. One in five developers in South Africa will use OfferZen to look for a job each year, and we're on a mission to elevate local talent on the global stage.  

What it's like to work here:

We love to do fun stuff together. We are focused on building a connected tribe and a sense of belonging. We value unique and diverse approaches and ensure we create opportunities to share and learn from each other. We have regular online events, show and tells and a book club as well as regional and annual off-site events. 

We're dedicated to authenticity: We treat people as people, caring personally and speaking openly. We foster low-ego behaviour - we own our mistakes as well as our victories. We're never about blame. We're always about honesty, learning and continuous improvement. We ensure lots of transparency and visibility. From OKRs and strategy to analytics and company performance numbers, it's all available for you to see and understand.

We're passionate about learning and levelling up: Everyone at OfferZen strives for a growth mindset. We read books, listen to podcasts, share expertise obsessively, then take on hard challenges with smart guidance and support. When things go wrong, we look for the learning and how to improve.

We’re all about balance: We believe that maintaining a healthy balance between home and work is the key to feeling happier and more productive. This is where hybrid work and flexibility come in. We also offer 24 days of leave a year which are available to use from the time you start.