Digital Designer at PEP

INTRODUCTION:

• This is a once in a lifetime digital opportunity to join Africa’s largest single brand retailer with over 2500 stores! You will get the opportunity to revolutionize the digital experience across all brands under the group’s umbrella. If you are passionate about digital design & would like to join our headquarters as the digital designer, send over your CV & come grab a coffee with us.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

• You will play a major role in the design of all digital assets and web platforms for all brands under the PEP group. You will be responsible for graphic and front-end web design with a user-centric approach that is aimed at continuously improving the user experience across all digital platforms, including but not limited to creative for web, email, social, digital ads, UI/UX, web design & more.

    
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create engaging visual designs & interactive experiences
• Create digital assets that are optimized for the web
• Production of all imagery for digital channels in collaboration with photo studio & marketing team
• Creative design and execution of all web-optimized & digital advertising needs, such as banners, GIF’s etc for marketing campaigns & website content
• Design email, social & website assets 
• Design cutting-edge digital creatives such as banner ads, feature graphics, illustrations, motion designs, etc for marketing
• Re-sizing digital assets according to platform requirements
• A strong understanding of user-centred design, visual design & interaction design
• Optimizing sites for optimal speed and scalability
• An understanding of the principles of A/B testing and exposure to multi-variate tools
• Work with the team to ideate, create and execute new digital concepts for enhanced digital user experiences (i.e: product launches, digital self-service, online shopping experiences, marketing campaigns, etc).
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ideate creative concepts for our brands
• Stay abreast of the design trends with the latest graphic design/marketing and communication trends for digital advertising
• Basic video editing & animation
• Research targeted users to understand & meet their needs on our digital channels & interfaces
• Design interaction models, wireframes, prototypes & the digital CI
• Conduct user testing & focus groups for feedback on design changes required for product enhancement
• Handover & communicate fully specced designs to the Dev team
• Web optimization: SEO, site load-speed & performance
• Coding mailers & updating websites via CMS(Wordpress, Shopify, Magento)
• Ensure responsive front-end design with cross-platform & cross-browser compatibility

    
JOB REQUIREMENTS 

• Relevant Graphic Design, Web Design, UI/UX or related qualification
• 2 - 3 years in Graphic Design & illustration
• Experience in creating digital marketing assets optimized for the web
• Strong portfolio required (please submit a link to your portfolio with your application)
• Wordpress & or Magento CMS experience advantageous
• Experience in eCommerce is a huge plus
• Envision or Sketch proficiency
• Adobe CS: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & other related design tools
• Excellent eye for design
• Passion for storytelling through digital illustration & other digital formats
• Fashion/home decor/retail or Ad Agency experience is advantageous
• HTML5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery is a plus
• Must enjoy working on various projects concurrently
• Adaptability and flexibility in a changing environment
• Graphic & UI Design (creative suite) - 80%
• UI Development - (code) 20%

Job Closing Date    07/02/2020

Location:Parow Industria, Western Cape, South Africa