Role: Creative Lead (CGI)

Location: South Africa (Remote working until further notice)

About the role: 

We are seeking a visionary Creative Director (Lead) with deep, hands-on CGI expertise and proficiency in AI technologies to lead our world-class CGI/3D team in delivering visually stunning, high-impact creative work for global brands. This is a leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of art, design, storytelling, and cutting-edge technology - equally confident setting a bold creative vision, leveraging Ai-driven innovation and providing precise hands-on direction. 

You will drive creative excellence across large-scale CGI productions, oversee the growth and development of the global team, and ensure our output pushes the boundaries of what’s possible. Those with experience leading global campaigns and digital content for renowned brands across FMCG, Luxury, Premium Global Brands, and Technology sectors will have a distinct advantage. 

This is a dynamic role requiring adaptability, collaboration, and the ability to juggle multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment. 

What You'll be Doing: 

• Lead and Oversee Projects: Own the end-to-end delivery of CGI projects, ensuring high-quality output that exceeds expectations, leveraging AI-enhanced workflows where appropriate to boost efficiency and creativity. 

• Creative Direction: Establish creative and technical direction for all CGI content, including sequence setup, lighting, rendering, and final delivery. Ensure the highest standard of work across all projects. 

• Mentorship and Team Development: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of 3D artists and CG Team leads, providing guidance, constructive feedback, and career development opportunities. Motivate and influence the CG team to constantly strive for excellence in performance.  

• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Producers and Team leads to align on project objectives and deliverables. 

• Resource Management: Allocate team resources effectively across multiple projects to meet deadlines and maintain quality. 

• Ensure Technical Excellence: Oversee the readiness of assets for review, troubleshoot technical challenges, and ensure that projects align with the latest CGI techniques, AI innovations and industry best practices. 

• Drive Innovation: Explore new tools, techniques, and workflows to push the boundaries of CGI and deliver innovative solutions. Investigate, propose and implement innovative ways of delivering CGI services to maximise efficiency and productivity  

• Client Interaction: Act as a client-facing representative for all CGI work, presenting ideas, discussing progress, and ensuring their vision is brought to life. 

• Brand Stewardship: Be a brand guardian by maintaining visual consistency and fidelity across all projects. 

What you’ll need:  

• Extensive Expertise in CGI: Proven experience in Data prep, lighting, compositing, texturing, and animation for both stills and animation. 

• Technical Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Cinema4D + Octane and 3DsMax + Vray. Experience with other tools like Unreal Engine, Maya, Blender, or Redshift is a bonus. 

• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams, manage resources, and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines. 

• Strategic Vision: Strong creative and technical vision, with the ability to set and communicate benchmarks for the team. 

• Client Management: Excellent client-facing skills, with the ability to present, defend, and sell ideas effectively. 

• Proficiency in Advanced Tools: 

Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere). 

Advanced texturing tools like Adobe Substance Painter and Designer. 

Unreal Engine or other real-time rendering tools would be desirable  

• Strong Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. 

• Project Ownership: Ability to take projects from concept to completion, while managing time, resources, and client expectations. 

• Eye for Detail: Impeccable attention to detail and quality assurance. 

• Curiosity and Innovation: A desire to continuously learn, explore, and implement cutting-edge CGI practices.   

• Business Development : Attend client meetings, present work, discuss needs and identify opportunities.  

You’ll have:  

• A relevant degree, diploma, or equivalent experience in CGI, Animation, or a related field. 

• A strong showreel showcasing CGI projects, including product visualization and animation. 

• At least 10+ years of experience in CGI/3D, with at least 3-5 years of team management experience. 

As a business we're committed to ensuring everyone on our team is fully trained and confident in using Pencil AI, and other approved AI tools. A wide range of Internal resources are available to make sure our teams stay ahead of the AI curve: training, webinars, newsletters, AI communities etc.  

You would be responsible for both you and your teams to be actively AI proficient and keeping up to date by:  

• Completing ongoing, structured [IIG] AI training including Pencil.  

• Continuously up-skilling using our approved AI tools including Pencil.  

• Stay up to date with evolving AI trends through our newsletters, webinars, hackathons, AI communities etc  

• Facilitate collaborative knowledge-sharing sessions to foster an open exchange of AI expertise and embrace our culture of Learning.  

Required experience   

As the senior design practitioner within the Creative team, the Creative Director will combine first-class design expertise, creativity and thought leadership with commercial acumen and leadership gravitas.  

REQ: 14468

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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 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 

Location:  Durban, South Africa 

About the role: 

Working in a team under the leadership of the Creative Director to conceptualise and execute campaigns based on both client and internal briefs.

• Present work imaginatively and confidently to clients and senior creatives.
• Be skilled in design and conceptualisation.
• Maintain exceptionally high standards for execution and attention to detail.
• Collaborate and communicate well with the team and other departments.
• Have an eternally positive disposition especially when the going gets rough

What you will be doing: 

• Concept Development: Collaborate with copywriters and creative teams to generate and execute bold, innovative ideas for digital campaigns across various platforms (social media, web, mobile, and more).
• Design Excellence: Deliver visually compelling creative that aligns with client objectives, brand guidelines, and user experience best practices.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with designers, strategists, and developers to ensure cohesive storytelling and seamless execution of creative ideas.
• Client Engagement: Present concepts and creative work to clients confidently, articulating your vision and rationale clearly.
• Trend Analysis: Stay ahead of emerging digital and design trends, incorporating fresh, cutting-edge ideas into your work.
• Mentorship: Guide junior creatives, providing constructive feedback and nurturing talent within the team. 

What you need to be great in this role: 

• Tertiary qualification in Art Direction / Graphic Design
• At least 6 years’ experience working as an Art Director with 3 years being in a mid-level role within an Advertising Agency
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates a range of conceptual work from ATL to Digital (awards/finalists a must)
• Excellent conceptual and design skills
• Proficient in MS Office (i.e. Word / PowerPoint etc.)
• Knowledge of and experience in Adobe Creative Suite applications 
• Strong communication & presentation skills
• Strong multi-tasking skills (ability to work on more than one brief at any given time)
• Additional Information
• Team player with the ability to work independently 
• Ability to work well in a highly pressurized, fast-paced environment
• Curious, imaginative creative mind with a passion for everything advertising related
• Meticulous with attention to detail
• Proactive - a “can do” attitude and willing to go the extra mile
• Accountable
• Solution and deadline driven

Req ID: 16574

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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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Role: Senior Conceptual Copywriter 

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

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 Senior Conceptual Copywriter, 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.

What you will be doing: 

• Develop original, engaging and innovative concepts and copy for short term and long-term campaigns, digital, social media and instore campaigns, adapting writing to match a different brand guidelines and tone of voices.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations. You’ll be someone who is open to new ideas and approaches, able to quickly grasp new concepts, and able to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Adapting copy across assets and platforms for roll out locally in South Africa.
• Present and communicate ideas effectively to clients and colleagues, working collaboratively to achieve project goals. 
• Working in Collaboration with the Senior Art Director Design and the lead Account Director for the client leading and setting up the studio for success.
• Assist with crafting case studies, awards scripts on work.
• Willingness to work across big conceptual jobs as well as small adaption and content roll out. 

What you need to be great in this role: 

• A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, English, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in a copywriting role, with a strong portfolio highlighting conceptual creativity, preferably in the FMCG or similar industry.
• Understanding of consumer behaviour and target audience.
• Excellent written, editing, proofreading, verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work well under pressure and handle multiple projects at once.
• Desire to be a team player with a client centric focus and the ability to build strong and effective working relationships.
• Experience working collaboratively with a design team.
• A proactive and adaptable mindset, capable of working independently and within a team.
• Experience in presenting ideas confidently in a professional environment.
• Strong writing portfolio demonstrating conceptual skillsets.
• AI experience using various platforms. 

Req ID: 16840

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