Senior Designer at PayFast

About you

You’d love working with us if you thrive in a fast-paced environment, helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. You will be involved in expanding our digital marketing footprint across Africa. You will be a key collaborator in creating and executing exciting digital campaigns to drive merchant engagement and in building the brand awareness across the board.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Enjoy a hybrid working model
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

• Produce aesthetically pleasing design assets as needed
• Types of assets may include social media graphics and banners, google display adverts, gifs, and videos, website banners, brochures, print materials and others
• Maintain consistency between brand assets and keep content on brand
• Strong ability to conceptualise forward-thinking, original, and creative design assets
• Ensure design work is high quality and effective, keep the user experience top of mind
• Complete projects within defined scope and priority and in set timelines
• Work with team members to ensure aesthetics also are aligned with usability, accessibility, and web standards. Work with developers to ensure proper implementation within a web environment and ensure consistency and integrity of the creative vision
• Provide mentorship to junior team members
• Effectively communicate timelines and deliverables to stakeholders and provide instructions for use or promotion
• Keep up-to-date with new technological trends and products

What you'll need

• Minimum 4+ years relevant design experience
• Advanced understanding of design principles and best practices
• Mastered Adobe Creative Suite, preferably Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
• Experience and interest in at least 2 Design sub-specialties such as web design, animation, video creation, HTML5 ads or others
• Additional nice to haves include Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects or an equivalent, Figma and Video Creation Software