Digital Graphic Designer

Your responsibilities will include

• Supporting the Marketing team with digital design executions for all retail media solutions including display banners, video, CRM 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, broader Marketing team & the 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 the design & retail media collaboration through process documentation and prioritization

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design
• 3- 5 years' experience in Graphic Design
• Excellent self-management and communication skills
• Visual effects/ After effects or any other animation/video program knowledge advantageous
• 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

Attributes Required

• Excellent self-management and communication skills
• Visual effects/ After Effects or any other animation/video program knowledge advantageous
• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, notably Photoshop, Illustrator.
• 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.