Senior Designer  

Attention, passionate digital designers! Are you a creative genius skilled in both digital and print design? We're on the hunt for a dynamic, detail-oriented leader to join our team.

As a super-talented Digital / AI designer, your unique style will shine, creating exceptional solutions for various brands. No more just following a brief; let's collaborate, generate exciting ideas, and craft beautiful campaigns together!

Time management is key, as you’ll be handling multiple accounts with finesse. Own your workload, meet deadlines, and keep the team in sync.

Got 5+ years of diverse client experience? Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite? Perfect! Extra points for After Effects know-how, adding motion magic to your designs.

As a senior designer, mentor juniors, provide stellar feedback, and lead cross-functional teams. Let's make an impactful creative direction together!

About you

You're the life of the design party, making friends with pixels and people alike! Your thought ducks in a row, and your action game is top-notch! You can wrangle tasks like a pro, juggling them with style and pizzazz and don't just handle big projects, you conquer them with multiple priorities like a design superhero!

If you're the master of these skills, you're the creative powerhouse we're looking for! 🎉💪

Responsibilities

• Show your digital and AI design skills with a portfolio that highlights your creativity.
• Lead and inspire a design team, providing guidance.
• Pay attention to detail for accurate and quality design work.
• Collaborate effectively in a diverse team, contributing innovative ideas.
• Handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, maintaining high standards.
• Organize, meet deadlines, and communicate well with clients.
• Understand digital design principles and user interface.
• Stay updated on design trends and emerging tech, incorporating as needed.
• Bonus: Experience with After Effects for added visual impact.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of diverse design experience.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Portfolio showcasing creative solutions in both digital and print design.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and collaborating with a design team.
• Worked on projects that highlight a strong attention to detail producing accurate, high-quality work.
• Effective collaboration in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience managing multiple projects and deadlines.
• Have a proven understanding of digital design principles and UI.
• Experience with art direction, including collaboration with photographers and illustrators.

Offer

• Full-time job within a growing and trendsetting agency
• Global client portfolio
• Attractive package and benefits
• Continuous trainings. Career conversation and growing opportunities
• Flexible homeworking policy

Role: Integrated Designer  

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

About the role: 

Join our dynamic team as a Delivery-Focused Integrated Designer, where you’ll be an integral part of the studio team for a global FMCG client, based in Bryanston Johannesburg. The Delivery-Focused Integrated Designer takes digital, print and social content projects from brief to completion. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail and the ability to adapt designs and translate supplied campaigns and brand guidelines into impactful designs cross channels. 

As the Integrated Designer, you’ll work closely with the local client, manage your work schedules closely with the Account Director and Art Director. You would need to understand working within specified timeframes and budgets. The right candidate will also have the ability to ensure quality and consistency of deliverables are met by self-QC. 

Reporting to the Art Director, the Integrated Designer will work alongside a Copywriter and another Integrated Designer. 

What you will be doing: 

• Collaborate with the team to produce design/adaptation to the client’s brief and exacting standards from the outset until completion, including OOH, in-store, digital, print, and social. 

• Positively influencing clients with creative input in addition to undertaking and pitching new proactive creative concepts when appropriate. 

• Ensure consistency and quality across all design deliverables while adhering to brand guidelines and project specifications in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. 

• Produce high volume campaigns across all static and moving image channels. 

• Utilising graphic design programmes such as Adobe photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design to deliver static content. 

• Utilising After Affects to manually build bespoke requests for local markets. 

• Ability to storyboard and craft short and long form animations. 

• Have a strong knowledge of the brand guidelines to act as a brand guardian. 

• Communicate and present projects effectively to internal stakeholders and clients, incorporating feedback to refine and iterate designs as needed. 

• Create inspiring and exciting content – from repurposing, reformatting of assets to ideation. 

• Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines. 

• Ability to deliver final artwork and toolkits on digital and print based material. 

What you need to be great in this role: 

• Equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or related field 

• 4+ years of professional experience in design, artwork and production 

• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of design work across various platforms and mediums 

• Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and digital channels. 

• Ability to engage and build rapport with clients, and organise and influence them 

• Ability to take initiative, think creatively, and solve problems independently 

• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and an understanding of future-facing platforms – with a desire to embrace new software and efficiency-led AI platforms 

• Strong design & motions skills and comprehensive understanding of Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, In-Design, Photoshop, and Premier Pro and rendering/output settings. 

• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with multiple delivery needs – right first time 

• Strong typography, layout and technical skills with excellent attention to detail 

• An understanding of responsive design across all digital platforms 

• Experience working with static and motion using the full Adobe suite of programmes 

• An understanding of automation software and willingness to embrace them 

• Working on print-based collateral with great knowledge of branding 

• The ability to talk through your ideas confidently with the team and clients 

• 4 + years of relevant experience in:  

• Graphic design 

• Digital 

• Motion Graphics 

• Web Design 

• Artwork 

• Print 

• Production 

• Automation/AI 

Req ID: 17266

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Role: Integrated Designer  

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

About the role: 

Join our dynamic team as a Delivery-Focused Integrated Designer, where you’ll be an integral part of the studio team for a global FMCG client, based in Johannesburg. The Delivery-Focused Integrated Designer takes digital, print and social content projects from brief to completion. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail and the ability to adapt designs and translate supplied campaigns and brand guidelines into impactful designs cross channels. 

As the Integrated Designer, you’ll work closely with the local client, manage your work schedules closely with the Account Director and Art Director. You would need to understand working within specified timeframes and budgets. The right candidate will also have the ability to ensure quality and consistency of deliverables are met by self-QC. 

Reporting to the Art Director, the Integrated Designer will work alongside a Copywriter and another Integrated Designer. 

What you will be doing: 

• Collaborate with the team to produce design/adaptation to the client’s brief and exacting standards from the outset until completion, including OOH, in-store, digital, print, and social. 

• Positively influencing clients with creative input in addition to undertaking and pitching new proactive creative concepts when appropriate. 

• Ensure consistency and quality across all design deliverables while adhering to brand guidelines and project specifications in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. 

• Produce high volume campaigns across all static and moving image channels. 

• Utilising graphic design programmes such as Adobe photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design to deliver static content. 

• Utilising After Affects to manually build bespoke requests for local markets. 

• Ability to storyboard and craft short and long form animations. 

• Have a strong knowledge of the brand guidelines to act as a brand guardian. 

• Communicate and present projects effectively to internal stakeholders and clients, incorporating feedback to refine and iterate designs as needed. 

• Create inspiring and exciting content – from repurposing, reformatting of assets to ideation. 

• Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines. 

• Ability to deliver final artwork and toolkits on digital and print based material. 

What you need to be great in this role: 

• Equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or related field 

• 4+ years of professional experience in design, artwork and production 

• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of design work across various platforms and mediums 

• Experience working with multiple campaigns, languages, and digital channels. 

• Ability to engage and build rapport with clients, and organise and influence them 

• Ability to take initiative, think creatively, and solve problems independently 

• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and an understanding of future-facing platforms – with a desire to embrace new software and efficiency-led AI platforms 

• Strong design & motions skills and comprehensive understanding of Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, In-Design, Photoshop, and Premier Pro and rendering/output settings. 

• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with multiple delivery needs – right first time 

• Strong typography, layout and technical skills with excellent attention to detail 

• An understanding of responsive design across all digital platforms 

• Experience working with static and motion using the full Adobe suite of programmes 

• An understanding of automation software and willingness to embrace them 

• Working on print-based collateral with great knowledge of branding 

• The ability to talk through your ideas confidently with the team and clients 

• 4 + years of relevant experience in:  

• Graphic design 

• Digital 

• Motion Graphics 

• Web Design 

• Artwork 

• Print 

• Production 

• Automation/AI 

Req ID: 17268

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Role: Senior Art Director – Conceptual Integrated Designer (12-Months FTC)

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa (hybrid)

About the role: 

Join our dynamic and innovative in-house creative agency, working with our client. Our team is dedicated to crafting engaging and persuasive content that resonates with audiences across both social and digital platforms. We collaborate with diverse departments to ensure our campaigns amplify our brand voice and presence. As a Conceptual Art Director for Integrated Design, you will play a pivotal role in driving creative concepts and optimising content for various platforms, all while working in an energetic and fast-paced environment.

As the Senior Art Director for Integrated Design, you’ll work closely with the local and regional client, manage your own work on the day-to-day running of local campaigns, working within specified timeframes and budgets. The right candidate will also have the ability to ensure quality and consistency of deliverables are met by self-QC.

What you will be doing: 

• Lead and develop creative concepts from brief through final delivery across advertising, digital, social, experiential and product interfaces.
• Generate original visual ideas and art directions that align with brand strategy and campaign goals.
• Manage and mentor mid-level and junior designers, providing clear creative guidance, feedback and professional development.
• Collaborate with copywriters, producers, strategists, account managers and developers to ensure integrated, high-quality output and on-time delivery.
• Oversee production — art direction on shoots, illustration, motion, retouching, layout and asset creation — ensuring consistency and excellence.
• Present creative work to internal stakeholders and clients; defend creative rationales and incorporate feedback effectively.
• Maintain and evolve brand systems, visual standards and design libraries; ensure work adheres to accessibility and platform guidelines.
• Drive process improvements in creative workflows, asset tagging, handoffs and collaboration tools.
• Stay current on cultural, design and technology trends; apply insights to push creative innovation.

What you need to be great in this role: 

• 6+ years of professional experience in art direction/design within an agency, in-house creative team, or studio environment (senior-level experience preferred).
• Strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, concept-to-execution work across multiple channels (campaigns, digital, motion, product UI, packaging, etc.).
• Advanced skills in visual design, typography, layout, color, imagery, and composition.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), plus familiarity with motion tools (After Effects), prototyping (Figma/Sketch/Adobe XD) and asset management.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor designers and to manage collaborative creative projects.
• Excellent presentation, communication and client-facing skills.
• Strong time-management and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects and priorities under tight deadlines.

Req ID: 16850

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