Senior Digital Designer at Publicis Groupe

Overview

• As a Senior creative you will work with our passionate, multi-talented studio delivering on exceptional, integrated concepts and designs to exceed client briefs and expectations.
• A Senior Digital Designer can expect to be craft-led and platform neutral conceptual thinkers, in particular having an understanding of all major social platforms as well as being comfortable executing work on these platforms as well as any digital format. Should a desire to transform companies by creating beautiful, intuitive, and human-centred products and experiences.
• The successful candidate will be tuned into all aspects of South African popular culture and the platforms and media it plays in, as well as have a strong point of view on what it takes to win in this spac

Responsibilities

What you’ll do everyday

• Be up to date with digital platforms
• Manage your creative process on projects
• Work with other disciplines (Strategists, Developers, Media, Accounts, etc.)
• Be a champion for digital innovation on every project you touch
• Participate in pitches for new business
• Define or apply the aesthetic of overall campaigns
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Generate ideas and sell them into clients or other members of the team
• Mock up creative ideas
• Design across multiple channels
• Consistently produce creative elements against a deliverables list
• Participate in brainstorms & conceptualisation
• Lead the craft & design of your idea
• Compile presentations for clients and learn to present
• Attend client briefings & if required, present to clients

OPERATIONAL KPI’S

• Ability of design work (Show minimum of 4 examples)
• Must show an understanding of various programmes

BUSINESS KPI’s

• Must be able to work on one sizable and two small size project at any one time.
• Have the ability to attend every review on a project with new 3 ideas / designs

Qualifications

• Great time management
• Must have a minimum of 3-4 years’ experience
• Ability to work under pressure & meet tight deadlines
• Adopt problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills with ability to provide rationales for creative choices made
• Adequate presentation skills
• Working knowledge of existing and emerging technologies & platforms
• A strong understanding of best practice interaction and visual design principles
• Able to work with team members

Working knowledge of these tools

• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• Indesign
• After Effects (Advantageous)
• KeyNote / PowerPoint
• InVision (UI / UX)
• Spark AR Studio
• AdobeXD (UI/UX))
• Figma
• Google Web Designer & DV360 (Advantageous)
• Facebook Creative Hub (Advantageous)
• 3D Animation & Production (Advantageous)