Mid Weight Brand Designer

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


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Be part of a dynamic and creative team. FourthRev builds world-class online learning programmes that lead to qualifications from leading universities, certifications from the world's best technology companies, and digital technology jobs with a global network of employer partners.

Our vision is to become the world's leading enabler of employability outcomes for students and lifelong learners.
In doing so, and helping close the digital skills gap, we aim to create social and economic value on a global scale.

Role Mission

We are looking for a talented and experienced Mid-weight Brand Designer to join our in-house Design Team. In this role, you will be responsible for your part in the creative process, working on multiple projects and collaborating with other designers, marketing and product managers across our company. A strong understanding of our product's brand positioning and messaging, as well as that of our collaboration partners, is required. We need a versatile designer who draws on knowledge across animation, social media, content creation, and more to bring the full storytelling potential to every project. In this role, you will translate brand strategy into compelling visual formats, develop brand assets in different templates, and help with the effective workflow processes. Your experience includes maintaining the brand across channels and campaigns and creating a scalable and consistent brand on multiple touch-points.

Role Outcomes

  • Increase brand awareness through highly effective creative execution
  • Contribute to the visual design of our marketing communications spanning advertising, sales enablement, web, social, video and more
  • Adhere to our style guide to maintain and defend our brand
  • Experiment with new expressions of our brand identity spanning different mediums, asset types and styles
  • Assist in the production of creative outputs to increase audience engagement and attention
  • Improve the efficiency of creative execution by helping to optimise our creative workflow
What your day-today will look like
  • You will mainly focus on hands-on designing.
  • Maintain the FourthRev brand across marketing and community channels.
  • Work on the conception and execution of new, primarily digital campaigns that engage audiences and support brand awareness, acquisition and retention.
  • Participate in design projects from start to finish to develop creative solutions.
  • Explain your strategic thought behind creative decisions to collab partners across departments.
  • Have hands-on experience with Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Have experience with UI/UX projects.
  • Use your strong eye for aesthetics and visual details to ensure a quality final product.
  • Collaborate with content and social media teams on workflow processes.
  • Suggest tactics, plans and tools to optimise team workflows and processes.
Requirements:

Competencies * Strong design skills: Excellent design skills and a deep understanding of design principles are required. You should be able to create designs that are visually compelling, on-brand, and communicate effectively to the target audience.
  • Strategic thinking: Ability to translate business objectives into effective design solutions. You should be able to think critically and creatively to develop innovative design concepts that support the overall brand strategy.
  • Communication skills: Effectiveness in communicating, both verbally and in writing. You should be able to articulate design concepts and ideas clearly and effectively to stakeholders across the organisation.
  • Collaboration skills: You should be willing to hold yourself accountable for delivering creative that meets each program objective. You incorporate feedback and take direction well, but also make firm recommendations on the ideal creative approach.
  • Attention to detail: You should have a keen eye for detail and be able to ensure that all designs are pixel-perfect and on-brand. There is a high level of autonomy - having the confidence and ability to cross check your work to make sure the brief and design assets are in line is a must.
  • Technical skills: You should have a strong understanding of design software and tools, as well as knowledge of digital and interactive design trends and best practices.
What you'll need to succeed
  • Proactive, highly organised and comfortable multi-tasker
  • Understanding of the people and teams who will interact with the systems
  • Genuine passion for your work - you're motivated by our mission
  • Experience in successfully managing cross-functional projects with complex stakeholder involvement, and complicated timelines and deliverables
Qualifications and education
  • 3-5 years' of brand design experience, including collaborating with an in-house marketing team
  • Demonstrable design thinking and execution skills with a strong portfolio
  • Familiarity with common graphic design suites like Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Understanding of brand, marketing and design principles and best practices
  • Experience in maintaining brands across channels and campaigns
  • Knowledge in creating scalable and consistent brands on multi-touchpoints (on and offline)
Benefits:

Spend your days making a difference.

FourthRev builds world class online learning programmes that lead to qualifications from leading universities, certifications from the world's best technology companies and digital technology jobs with a global network of employer partners.

It's our vision to become the world's leading enabler of employability outcomes for students and lifelong learners. In doing so, and helping close the digital skills gap, our purpose is to create social and economic value on a global scale.

In less than two years we have partnered with ten of the world's most recognized technology companies to deliver cutting edge courses with universities in Australia, the UK and the US. Our unwavering commitment to quality, student outcomes and shared value partnerships has resulted in excellent growth and investment from leading US and European EdTech VCs. We have been recognised by JISC as one of the top 20 edtech start-ups in the UK and by HolonIQ in the ANZ top-50.

Why you'll love working here

At FourthRev, we are deeply passionate about work being a meaningful, fulfilling part of life. We are proud to be a remote first company that offers flexible working arrangements and ongoing professional growth and development. We place staff health and happiness at the core of strategy and operations as a critical component of our high performance culture. We are deeply passionate about work being a meaningful, fulfilling part of life.

Get ready to:
  • You'll tackle unique and challenging opportunities and embrace the unknown, supported by an amazing and talented team of professionals who genuinely care and want you to succeed.
  • Your voice matters. We believe that people matter and that our success as an organisation is driven by the people within it.
  • You'll become part of a greater community. We're passionate about enabling the growth of others, mentorship, lifelong learning, supporting learners in the digital economy and other causes.
  • We are a globally diverse team with colleagues spanning different time zones including the U.K. Australia and South Africa. Let us know where you are, we will see if we can make it work!
Our DEI Commitment

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at FourthRev. We aim to continue building a team with a variety of backgrounds, identities, and life experiences. Research has shown that historically underrepresented groups, such as people with disabilities, women, and people of color, are less likely to apply for a job unless they completely match all the criteria and qualifications.

If you feel that you do not meet every single requirement listed in the job description but you are excited about the opportunity and feel a connection to our vision and values we encourage you to submit your application

If you are not selected for this role, we will add you to our talent pool and continue to engage with you should a role arise that better aligns with your skillset and experience.

FourthRev

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1258435
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned