Description
Our UK based client is a fast-growing subscription-based company in the food and beverage industry, known for curating and delivering exciting monthly boxes to thousands of members. They currently have an exciting opportunity for a creative and talented Mid-weight Digital Graphic Designer to join their business. You’ll play a pivotal role in producing engaging digital content – from still images and animations to edited videos – that support their brand identity and drive performance.
With the imminent launch of a new brand identity, this is a chance to make your creative mark, working across multiple marketing campaigns and digital channels to deliver compelling and high-quality design work.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, proactive designer who thrives in a collaborative and fast-moving environment. They will bring energy, initiative, and creativity to the team, with a strong digital portfolio and a proven track record of delivering high-quality work across various channels. A good cultural fit for this role is someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats, takes ownership of their projects, and embraces the challenges and opportunities that come with working in a growing, agile business.
This is a remote position open to those living anywhere in South Africa.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design and produce digital assets including static images, videos, and motion graphics for use across paid social campaigns, organic social media, email marketing, websites, and direct mail
- Align all creative outputs with brand guidelines and overarching marketing strategies
- Edit, retouch, and resize images for use across the eCommerce platform and other digital touchpoints
- Collaborate with the Head of Creative Marketing and other team members including designers, copywriters, and marketing leads to execute campaigns
- Contribute to ideation processes for monthly content and campaigns
- Manage your workload independently, delivering high-quality work on time and in line with briefs
- Act on performance data and feedback to optimise creative assets
- Stay current with design trends, tools, and best practices, applying them appropriately to your work
- Support occasional product photoshoots and contribute creatively where needed
- Timely delivery of high-quality digital assets in line with briefs
- Demonstrable improvements in campaign performance (e.g., CTR, conversion rates)
- Positive contributions to ideation and execution of brand-enhancing content
Skills, Experience & Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience in digital graphic design within a fast-paced, consumer-focused (ideally DTC) business environment
- Demonstrated experience in motion graphics and video editing using Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, or similar
- Strong understanding of digital-first design principles, typography, layout, and colour theory
- Experience working on social and paid media campaigns with an emphasis on performance-driven creative
- Previous involvement in creative testing and content iteration
- Bonus: Experience supporting or leading creative ideation within a collaborative marketing team
- Bonus: Experience with product photography or assisting on photoshoots
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro)
Load Shedding
Applicants must be able to ensure they can maintain internet and power during office hours.
