Digital Designer

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OLIVER+
South Africa
ZAR 300 000 - 600 000
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3 days ago
Job description

OLIVER+ is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our focus is to connect clients with high-quality solutions, talent and ambitious opportunities worldwide.

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Role: Digital Designer

About the Role:

As a Digital Designer you will be responsible for designing, managing, and producing design concepts through to full artwork stage for a wide variety of outputs. This role will work under the direction of a Creative Director and work with a creative team to execute on designs. Our ideal candidate has worked at an advertising agency or design firm and has a dense portfolio of great digital and moving image work.

You will be working within brand guidelines, producing design and artwork to the client’s brief and exacting standards. You will proactively manage projects within agreed timescales considering quality, accuracy, and consistency. The expectation is to maintain a fast-paced and responsive workflow across multiple projects and brands within our organisation whilst learning from others and developing your craft along the way.

What you will be doing:

  • Work on projects from start to finish — working collaboratively across teams on ideation, creation, and implementation
  • Show strong conceptual and integrated design thinking for web, ecommerce, social content, and digital marketing
  • Define the look and feel for a variety of digital design projects
  • Implement existing brand guidelines and templates on projects
  • The ability to work under direction and using your own initiative
  • Presenting your work internally and to clients and manage workloads within agreed timings
  • Keeping up to date with current design trends
  • Understand what makes GREAT content e.g. best practices for making ecommerce, social assets and mobile first

What you are capable of:

  • Experience working with FMCG / Health Brands
  • Social and video design experience with Visual Arts BS/BA degree a plus
  • A portfolio demonstrating your ideas through to execution
  • A passion for digital trends and interaction / animation design
  • You'll have a deep affinity with layout, typography, and ideas-generation
  • Excellent grasp of design programmes and tools such as Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
  • A team player and possess the ability to build strong and effective working relationships
  • You have an excellent attention to detail
  • Capable of taking creative briefs from clients and account team and show personal responsibility for quality across all jobs allocated which includes client liaison

What you will need:

  • A rich portfolio of relevant work examples - digital, banners, social media, emails, landing pages, in-store, event materials, collateral, icons, infographics, brochures, and campaigns
  • A keen sense of personal responsibility for the quality control, presentation, and accuracy of all work.
  • Solid understanding of graphic design and web technologies
  • High level of craft for design
  • Brand identity, visual systems, and campaign identities as real working experience
  • Experience working with retail/ Health FMCG brands
  • Proficiency in Adobe CC suite applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and associated prototyping
  • A team player and possess the ability to build strong and effective working relationships
  • Handle multiple projects simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • A portfolio comprised of traditional and digital, conceptual campaign, design, and interaction design work
  • Willingness to accept feedback and iterate over designs in a highly-collaborative, low-ego team environment
  • Overflowing with curiosity, creativity, and ambition

Our values shape everything we do:

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

OLIVER+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

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