Digital Design Intern
Ready to put your design skills to work on real e-commerce campaigns? Babylonstoren is looking for a talented digital design intern to join the e-commerce team for six months. You’ll need a sharp eye for detail, strong design fundamentals, and a willingness to learn. You'll deliver effective, aesthetic, on-brand, on-strategy creative, including newsletters, digital ads, and website assets, for the marketing team.
Responsibilities
• Designing newsletters that bring products and campaigns to life.
• Creating advertising assets for Meta, TikTok, Criteo, and Google.
• Adapting designs across different formats, sizes, and placements.
• Creating digital website assets.
• Supporting ad hoc design requests while keeping work consistent with brand guidelines.
Skills & Requirements
• A qualification in digital, graphic, or communication design.
• Confidence using Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
• Strong design fundamentals in layout, typography, colour, and visual hierarchy, with a critical eye and close attention to detail.
• A strong portfolio highlighting advertising design work, submitted as a file no larger than 5 MB.
• Fluency in both English and Afrikaans, with clear communication skills.
• A willingness to learn, ask thoughtful questions, and use feedback to improve your work.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Pride in your work, persistence when facing challenges, and a commitment to seeing tasks through to completion.
• Your own computer with the latest versions of the Adobe applications listed above.
Your opportunity to grow
If you’re a recent design graduate or an emerging designer, this is an opportunity to build your skills through hands-on e-commerce work. With guidance and regular feedback from our digital designer, you’ll create assets for seasonal campaigns across multiple digital channels and take on greater responsibility as you grow. The internship could lead to a permanent position, depending on your performance and business needs.
Skills Required
- Qualification in digital, graphic, or communication design
- Confidence using Figma
- Experience using Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects
- Strong fundamentals in layout, typography, color, and visual hierarchy
- Strong attention to detail and critical eye
- Portfolio demonstrating advertising design work, submitted as a file no larger than 5 MB
- Fluency in English and Afrikaans
- Clear communication skills
- Willingness to learn, ask questions, and apply feedback
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Own computer with current versions of the listed Adobe applications
What We Do
Babylonstoren is a historic working Cape Dutch farm in South Africa’s Franschhoek wine valley. Its modern destination combines a botanical fruit-and-vegetable garden with luxury farm accommodation, spa and wellness experiences, restaurants, a winery, tasting room, farm shop, bakery and curated local products. The estate offers immersive guest activities and farm-to-table dining while continuing agricultural production and wine-making on the property.
