Digital Graphic Designer

Location: Cape Town

Department: Takealot Group Advertising

takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Digital Graphic Designer to join our Retail Media team in Cape Town.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting the Retail Media team with digital design executions for all retail media solutions including CRM (mailers, animated graphics for in-app and pop-up banners, display banners, video, and more.
• Keeping abreast of advancements in new technologies and techniques, contemporary trends in design to deliver cutting-edge work.
• Brainstorming and conceptualizing ideas as well as storyboarding.
• Participating in idea sessions to share new design perspectives and ideas.
• Adding effects/elements to enhance motion graphics.
• Creation of Retail Media Go-to-market materials (Pitchdecks, Flyers, Social posts etc)
• Working collaboratively with the design team, Retail Media team, broader Marketing team & on occasion Retail and Promotions departments.
• Consistently delivering work on time.
• Working within the brand CI and templates.
• Working quickly and efficiently with exceptional attention to detail.
• Implementing and delivering on feedback from senior management and peers.
• Improving design & retail media collaboration through process documentation and prioritization.

Minimum Required Qualification, Experience, Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Graphic Design.
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in Graphic Design.
• Excellent self-management and communication skills.
• Motion effects/ After Effects or any other animation/video and motion program knowledge advantageous.
• Understanding of HTML 5 skills.
• Experience building, editing, and managing modular templates within CMS systems (eg Braze, Salesforce, MailChimp and Stripo etc).
• Great Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator skills.
• Good understanding of digital and mobile design principles. 
• An understanding of typography, colour, composition and how these elements work together for a design solution.
• Understand the importance of brand design.

Skills, knowledge & abilities:

• Excellent self-management and communication skills.
• Motion effects/ After Effects or any other animation/video program knowledge advantageous.
• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, notably Photoshop, Illustrator.
• Basic knowledge of HTML 5.
• Good understanding of digital and mobile design principles.
• An understanding of typography, colour, composition and how these elements work together for a design solution.
• Understand the importance of brand design.
• An understanding of generative AI prompting, model capabilities and how these elements work together for innovative and efficient creative outcomes is advantageous

The Environment: 

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e- commerce company in Africa. 
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve. 
• We are short on ego and high on output. 
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all. 
• We love what we do and what we are creating.
• We seek to employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking. 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us! 

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.