Graphic Designer - Retention at Digital Outsource Services (Pty) Ltd

Job description

Purpose:

We’re looking for a designer to create beautiful, pixel-perfect, and moreover - usable – interfaces and produce best-in-breed web, mobile, and print designs for our various digital properties. You must be hands on, responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within a fast paced, open and collaborative peer environment.

Duties will include, but not limited to:

• Creative designs for promotions and campaigns
• Conceptualising new designs and user interactions that are both functional and user-friendly
• Developing creative content from scratch. Working within client briefs and with supplied assets
• Website design
• Mobile Design: iOS, Android, and mobile web
• Web & Email Templates: headers, buttons, backgrounds, iconography, typography
• Print Design: physical collateral including folders, booklets, flyers, stickers, banners, etc.
• Constantly looking for opportunities to improve UX through design

Essential Requirements:

• Portfolio demonstrating any area of graphic, website and mobile design
• An ability to interpret business and user requirements into intuitive and logical design
• High proficiency in Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign and other design packages
• Firm grasp of current trends and best practices for the web and mobile world and understanding of technology used in designing interactively
• Strong eye for typography, colour, composition and hierarchy
• Possess initiative to address issues and identify opportunities
• Passion for graphic design, human-computer and human-human interaction design

Advantageous Requirements:

• Relevant diploma or degree in Art or Graphic design
• Graphic Design (Adobe Photoshop), expert level
• Solid graphic design and print knowledge (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign)
• Illustration (Adobe Illustrator)
• Conceptual art (Drawing, painting)
• Animation
• Basic knowledge of HTML5
• Facebook/Social media
• Mobile UX/UI experience – responsive design/websites and native apps
• Solid knowledge of web standards

Behavioural Competencies:

• Must have a great eye for stunning visual design
• Love to collaborate with other designers and writers, users, developers and product managers to create sites and designs that are a pleasure to use
• You get uneasy if something is a few pixels off
• Excel at taking features and concepts and turning them into clever and intuitive user interfaces
• Must be hands on, responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within a fast paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills
• Deadline driven, able to work under pressure
• A commitment to producing quality, innovative work
• Service orientated and willing to go the extra mile
• Exceptional attention to detail

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.