Mid Level Digital Designer
Apply locations: Cape Town
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Time left to apply: End Date: January 10, 2025 (18 days left to apply)
Job requisition id: R1081775
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, 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
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