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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Graphic Design
- 3–5 years of experience in graphic design
- Excellent self-management and communication skills
- Experience building, editing, and managing modular templates within CMS platforms such as Braze, Salesforce, Mailchimp, or Stripo
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop and Illustrator
- Basic knowledge of HTML5
- Understanding of digital and mobile design principles
- Understanding of typography, color, composition, and brand design
- Knowledge of motion effects, After Effects, animation, video, or motion design programs
- Understanding of generative AI prompting and model capabilities
takealot.com Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about takealot.com and has not been reviewed or approved by takealot.com.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered aligned with qualifications in select office and tech functions. This indicates pockets where compensation matches role expectations despite broader variability.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Employee discounts and company-supported learning opportunities are available to some permanent staff. These perks add non-cash value that can help offset leaner core benefits in certain teams.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid sick leave, holidays, and flexible scheduling appear in some roles. Such time-off and flexibility elements contribute positively where offered.
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What We Do
Takealot.com is the leading eCommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative eCommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that our customer comes first. Need help or have a question? Reach out to us via our Help Center for assistance https://www.takealot.com/help-centre Our focus is dedicated to improving the customer experience, from the moment they arrive on our website to the moment they receive their order. By aligning ourselves to this philosophy, we believe Takealot will be the #1 shopping destination across Africa.
