takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Digital Graphic Designer to join our Retail Media team in Cape Town.
Key responsibilities
- Supporting the Retail Media team with digital design executions for all retail media solutions including CRM (mailers, animated graphics for in-app and pop-up banners, display banners, video, 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, Retail Media team, broader Marketing team & on occasion 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 design & retail media collaboration through process documentation and prioritization.
- Minimum Required Qualification, Experience, Competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Graphic Design.
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in Graphic Design.
- Excellent self-management and communication skills.
- Motion effects/ After Effects or any other animation/video and motion program knowledge advantageous.
- Understanding of HTML 5 skills.
- Experience building, editing, and managing modular templates within CMS systems (eg Braze, Salesforce, MailChimp and Stripo etc).
- 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.
Skills, knowledge & abilities
- Excellent self-management and communication skills.
- Motion effects/ After Effects or any other animation/video program knowledge advantageous.
- Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, notably Photoshop, Illustrator.
- Basic knowledge of HTML 5.
- 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.
- If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!
- Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.
