Senior Digital Designer

Senior Digital Designer

Location: Cape Town or Johannesburg, South Africa
Employment Type: Permanent
Account: Global beauty and personal care brand

Role Overview

A leading global creative agency is looking for a highly skilled Senior Digital Designer to join its creative team and support a major international beauty and personal care account.

Working closely with Art Directors, Copywriters and other creative specialists, you will translate campaign concepts into beautifully crafted digital executions across multiple formats. This role requires exceptional visual design ability, strong conceptual thinking and advanced Figma capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop polished digital design work across multiple campaign formats.
• Translate creative concepts into consistent and engaging visual executions.
• Work closely with Art Directors and Copywriters throughout campaign development.
• Design within wider campaign ecosystems rather than producing isolated assets.
• Create work across digital and social platforms, including social-first formats.
• Build and maintain components, templates and design systems in Figma.
• Ensure consistency across different formats, channels and campaign touchpoints.
• Contribute ideas during brainstorms and creative development.
• Adapt creative work for different audiences, platforms and international markets.
• Maintain a high standard of craft, simplicity and attention to detail.
• Present design work and explain the thinking behind creative decisions.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines within a fast-paced agency environment.
• Support and mentor junior designers where required.

Experience Required

• Strong experience operating at Senior Digital Designer level within a creative, advertising or digital agency.
• A standout portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and digital campaign work.
• Advanced Figma skills, including components and design systems.
• Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Experience designing across multiple digital and social formats.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Art Directors, Copywriters and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of how a campaign idea is developed across a wider ecosystem.
• Experience contributing original ideas rather than only executing supplied layouts.
• Confidence working across different brands, styles and campaign scales.
• Global brand or international campaign experience is highly desirable.
• Motion design or After Effects experience would be beneficial.
• Relevant industry experience may include beauty, personal care, FMCG, retail, fashion, luxury or other consumer brands.

Portfolio Requirements

The portfolio should demonstrate:

• Exceptional digital design craft.
• Beautiful, simple and effective execution.
• Strong use of typography, layout and visual hierarchy.
• Work across multiple digital and social formats.
• Variety across brands, styles and campaign scales.
• Evidence of conceptual thinking, not only polished roll-out work.
• Experience developing a campaign idea across multiple touch points.
• Global or international brand work where possible.

Please send CV's & Portfolio's

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