Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
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: Integrated Designer
Location: Durban, South Africa
About the role:
The Mid-Weight Integrated Designer is responsible for creating innovative and engaging design solutions across various marketing and communication channels with a larger focus on digital. This role combines creative thinking with strong design execution skills to deliver work that supports brand objectives, marketing campaigns, and business goals. You'll collaborate closely with strategists, copywriters, social media managers, and account managers to produce integrated campaigns that are visually impactful, on-brand, and built to perform across channels. This is a role for someone who is as comfortable generating ideas as they are executing them with precision and craft.
What you will be doing:
- Develop and execute creative concepts across integrated marketing campaigns, spanning digital, social, print, retail, and OOH
- Design engaging visual solutions that meet client objectives and campaign requirements, consistently delivering high-quality assets across formats and platforms
- Interpret creative briefs and translate strategic insights into impactful visual communications
- Collaborate with strategists, copywriters, account managers, and social media teams to develop ideas that are both original and effective
- Produce artwork and production-ready assets to a high standard across multiple channels and formats, including static and animated online banners, Meta and TikTok content, OOH, print, and retail
- Ensure all work aligns with brand guidelines, while exploring creative possibilities within that framework
- Storyboard and develop animation concepts for motion and video content
- Present creative work clearly and confidently, articulating your design rationale to internal teams and stakeholders
- Stay current on industry trends, social content formats, emerging technologies, and digital design best practices
- Apply Gen AI tools to enhance your design process, ideation, and output quality
What you need to be great in this role:
- Strong integrated design capability, with the ability to concept and execute across digital, social, print, retail, and OOH channels
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, and Premiere Pro
- Strong typography, layout, and technical skills, with exceptional attention to detail
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Solid understanding of static and animated online banners, social content formats (Meta and TikTok), OOH, print, and retail
- Understanding of responsive design principles across digital platforms
- Experience storyboarding and developing animation concepts for motion and video content
- Strong understanding of branding principles and how to apply them consistently across channels
- Ability to articulate ideas confidently with teams and clients
- Familiarity with UX principles and digital and social technology trends (advantageous)
- Proficiency with Gen AI tools relevant to design including image generation, ideation, and workflow tools to enhance output quality and efficiency
- Experience building personal AI-assisted workflows to improve efficiency and craft quality
- Agentic approach to brief interpretation and problem-solving — breaking complex challenges into clear steps and executing with focus
- Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs and apply human judgement to protect craft quality
Req ID: 18424
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Our values shape everything we do:
Be Ambitious to succeed
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible
Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro)
- Strong typography, layout, and technical skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Solid understanding of static and animated online banners, social content formats (Meta and TikTok), OOH, print, and retail
- Understanding of responsive design principles across digital platforms
- Experience storyboarding and developing animation concepts for motion and video content
- Strong understanding of branding principles and consistent application across channels
- Ability to present and articulate creative rationale to teams and clients
- Proficiency with Gen AI tools relevant to design (image generation, ideation, workflow tools)
- Experience building personal AI-assisted workflows to improve efficiency and craft quality
- Familiarity with UX principles and digital/social technology trends
- Agentic approach to brief interpretation and problem-solving
- Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs and apply human judgement to protect craft quality
OLIVER Agency Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about OLIVER Agency and has not been reviewed or approved by OLIVER Agency.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays are strong elements, with time off frequently highlighted as a standout part of the package. UK materials also describe generous annual leave that increases with service alongside additional personal days.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests U.S. employees can access a 401(k), and at least one account notes an immediate match. UK materials indicate a formal pension arrangement within the parent group.
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Affordable Benefits — Feedback suggests U.S. medical coverage is paired with employer-funded HSA/HRA or flex contributions that help offset high deductibles. These subsidies can meaningfully reduce out-of-pocket costs for some employees.
OLIVER Agency Insights
What We Do
Established in 2004, we are the first and only company to design, build and run bespoke in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands. Today, we create work that delivers business growth, fame and purpose for over 200 clients in 46 countries and counting. Our unique model moves at the speed of modern business to drive change from the inside out; working smarter to make our clients’ money go further, and helping them build better solutions, systems and brands. Client solutions include Unilever’s U-Studio (a platform used by almost three-quarters of Unilever's brands globally), adidas’ off-shore hub and PepsiCo’s global digital team.
