The Role
As a Digital Graphic Designer, you will create digital assets for marketing campaigns, ensuring brand consistency and optimizing designs based on performance. You'll collaborate with teams and build on campaign insights.
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Who we are:
Mama Money is a growth-stage fintech startup working to help migrant workers in South Africa send money home. Since 2015, we have been providing reliable remittances, at a socially fair price, to those who need it most.
Mama HQ is in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. We are 131 people strong (and counting) from 19 countries across Africa, Asia, the UK, and Europe. Our culture is built around the well-being of our team members and making a difference in our communities. “Just be lekker!” personifies our approach to work: we trust the wisdom of our talented and diverse team to do what is best for our customers and get the job done responsibly, without pedantic policies.
We’ve been around since 2015 and have earned several accolades along the way, made new friends, and expanded our reach. We've had some great times and some tough times, but we continue to focus on helping people rather than maximising profit
As a Digital Graphic Designer at Mama Money, you’ll support the visual storytelling of our brand across multiple platforms. You’ll design engaging digital assets for social media, web, email, and in-app campaigns. Working closely with marketing and product teams, you’ll use Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), and Braze to bring campaigns to life and ensure visual consistency across all touchpoints.
As our Digital Graphic Designer, you will:
- Create high-impact static and motion assets for digital advertising campaigns across social media, online & digital advertising media platforms.
- Develop engaging visuals for customer engagement, acquisition & retention ad placements, optimised for performance.
- Edit and produce short-form videos and animations for paid platforms.
- Ensure brand consistency across all digital outputs.
- Adapt and refine designs based on A/B testing and campaign performance insights.
- Maintain an organised library of creative assets for re-use and localisation.
In your first 90 days at Mama Money, you will:
- Learn Mama Money’s brand, product, and customer experience.
- Understand the customer and agent network.
- Collaborate with marketing and digital to create on-brand content.
- Build relationships with sales and product teams.
- Contribute to new campaigns and initiatives.
Experience & qualifications:
- 3+ years’ experience in digital design within marketing teams, supporting campaign and partner initiatives.
- Experienced in static creative design for digital creatives to be used in advertising, motion design skills is an added bonus.
- Experience in working on the Adobe Suite, specifically: Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Premier Pro or similar motion graphic software.
- Provide a portfolio of your creative work and past experience, displaying a range of your design skillsets.
- Skilled in managing multiple design tasks with strong attention to detail and organisation.
- Confident communicator and team collaborator.
- Experience designing for various online and digital marketing channels (Meta & Google)
- Familiar with using data tools to track and improve creative performance.
- Proactive, adaptable, and solutions-focused.
- Bonus: Experience in fintech or migrant community design is a plus as well as motion design.
Why Mama?
At Mama Money, we’re not just a company- we’re a movement. Everything we do is driven by one purpose: to make life better for our customers and the communities we serve. Our customers are our heartbeat, and they inspire every step we take.
We’re all about making it easy. No red tape, no hassle. Just simple, seamless experiences that put people first, we’re here to make things easier, faster, and better for you.
We believe in giving it a go- and then giving it another go if we have to! We're a team of doers, dreamers, and innovators who aren't afraid to break the mold. We take bold steps, experiment with fresh ideas, and never stop learning.
At Mama Money, we own it- and we mean it. We take responsibility for our actions, our results, and how we show up every day. No passing the buck here. We approach every challenge with grit, passion, and determination.
Here’s the best part: Mama Money is a place that truly cares. We care about the trust our customers place in us. We care about our amazing team who bring their best every day. And we care about making an impact in the world, doing the right thing no matter what.
When you join Mama Money, you’re joining a community. We’re a passionate, down-to-earth crew that works hard and celebrates wins along the way. We take our work seriously, but we don’t forget to have fun while we do it.
So, if you’re ready to make a real difference, take on exciting challenges, and grow in a place where you’re valued and supported, then Mama Money is the place for you. Let’s make an impact—together.
Mama’s values:
1. Making it easier for our customers
2. Give it a go
3. Just own it
Top Skills
Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop
After Effects)
Braze
Figma
Illustrator
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The Company
What We Do
Mama Money is a rapidly growing, innovative, tech company and the world’s first Social Business Money Transfer Operator. Mama provides an easy, safe and low-cost way for foreign nationals to send money home to support their families. Our mobile application is easy-to-use and allows our customers to send money to their loved ones through a vast payout network that's continuously expanding. Rather than looking at profit-maximisation, Mama aims to directly assist people who don’t earn a lot by lowering the cost of cross-border payments. Mama Money was built to help African and Asian expats who left their homes and communities in search of better opportunities. Social upliftment through financial inclusion is the core belief of Mama Money and this drives us to keep growing and innovating. We have plenty of new job vacancies available so be sure to follow our page for regular updates. Mama is always on the lookout for individuals who want to make a positive impact on this world through meaningful work. Come and join the family
