Mid Level Digital Designer

Dentsu Creative Cape Town is seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior Digital Designer to join our dynamic team. This role requires a creative individual with a passion for producing world-class digital and social design across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio showcasing
expertise in creating digital assets, animations, and interactive social content, along with a proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and adapt to diverse projects.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities:

Creative Development & Conceptualization

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define the design brief or establish design concepts that meet the objectives of multi-platform approaches.
• Create wireframes, storyboards, and creative mood boards to bring ideas to life and ensure alignment with project goals.
• Research and develop material to support new design concepts, including working drawings and layouts to evaluate and present ideas effectively.

Digital Design Execution

• Produce world-class creative digital assets, including:
• ○ Social media content
• ○ Storyboard
• ○ Newsletters
• ○ Fashion and food shoots
• ○ Website layouts
• ○ Web Banners
• ○ Animations and video overlays
• Develop and refine multi-format animated sequences such as GIFs, MP4s, and banners.
• Create original artwork for digital image processing and animation, contributing to brand storytelling through visually engaging content.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with the Digital Art Director, digital Editor and Multimedia team on shoots for various digital mediums and social media aspect ratios.
• Contribute to and evolve existing design styles to maintain brand consistency across projects.

Innovation & Industry Awareness

• Stay ahead of industry design trends, developments, and technological advancements, interpreting their impact on services from a design perspective.
• Share insights, design concepts, and campaign ideas with team members and other divisional design teams.

Asset Management

• Repurpose existing ATL elements, templates, and assets as required by design changes or campaign needs.
• Prepare and organize media assets to support new design concepts and create working prototypes.

Required skills:
● University-level education in digital design or equivalent work experience.
● At least 3- 5 years’ experience working in a design studio or creative agency.
● Excellent Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator skills, and Indesign skills
● An understanding of social media and various video file types
● Ability to interpret brand guidelines & design principles for online media.
● Experience working on campaign photo and video shoots
● Excellent communication skills and enjoys working within teams across accounts

Advantageous:
● Experience with Adobe After effects, Premiere Pro and Video editing best practices
● Experience with Figma, Adobe XD or other UI applications
● Presentation design within Keynote and Powerpoint
● CMS Front-end web experience and strong understanding of Wordpress

Location:

Cape Town

Brand:

Dentsu Creative

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent