44 Ux Ui Design jobs in South Africa

Our client is seeking an experienced UX/UI Design Lead to head the design of user interfaces and the visual and user-experience elements of digital products. This role involves guiding stakeholders and team members in product design and leading the transformation of high-level requirements into interactive, user-friendly designs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design and Conceptualisation:
   • Oversee a collaborative design process for digital products/services, incorporating input from various portfolios to create a scalable and robust design system that enhances the brand. Lead a multidisciplinary team to evolve this system.
2. Customer Experience Mapping:
   • Implement and manage techniques such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis to identify and address customer pain points, improving overall customer interactions.
3. Internal Client Relationship Management:
   • Foster and maintain relationships with internal clients, acting as a trusted business partner. Manage the deployment of internal and/or external resources to support the delivery of business strategies and plans.
4. Product and Solution Development:
   • Oversee the definition, development, and delivery of key products or services within the product development program, ensuring alignment with customer needs.
5. Improvement / Innovation:
   • Identify and implement improvements in existing business practices, and manage projects or work streams within the organization’s change management program, with guidance from senior colleagues.
6. Personal Capability Building:
   • Serve as a subject matter expert in specific technology, policy, regulation, or operational management areas. Stay updated on current and emerging technologies and industry best practices through professional development.
7. Building Capability:
   • Enhance your own capabilities and those of your direct reports within the existing development framework. Provide specialized training or coaching to others across the organization.
8. Recommendations:
   • Suggest changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices to improve operational support.
9. Customer Needs/Experience Research:
   • Lead customer research projects, collecting and analyzing data to understand customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations.
10. Customer Experiences Implementation:
    • Design and manage the implementation of initiatives, tools, and processes to enhance customer experiences.
11. Performance Management:
    • Monitor team performance, allocate tasks, review progress, and take corrective action as needed. Contribute to formal performance management and appraisals.

Competencies:

1. Balances Stakeholders:
   • Effectively balance and anticipate the needs of multiple stakeholders, fostering an environment of high ethical standards and cultural sensitivity.
2. Manages Complexity:
   • Navigate complex and ambiguous situations by asking insightful questions and enriching analyses.
3. Decision Quality:
   • Make timely, effective decisions, ensuring compliance with policies and standards. Integrate analysis and experience to make informed decisions.
4. Cultivates Innovation:
   • Encourage and support creative ideas, fostering a collaborative environment to develop new solutions.
5. Drives Results:
   • Achieve outstanding outcomes by emphasizing urgency and challenging unproductive behaviours.
6. Action Oriented:
   • Approach new opportunities and challenges with high energy and enthusiasm, encouraging others to do the same.
7. Nimble Learning:
   • Learn from successes and failures, promoting experimentation to find the best solutions.
8. Ensures Accountability:
   • Hold yourself and others accountable for meeting commitments, tracking performance, and learning from feedback.
9. Interpersonal Savvy:
   • Build rapport and maintain productive relationships with diverse groups, showing tact and sensitivity in difficult situations.
10. Being Resilient:
    • Maintain composure in crises, using hardships as opportunities for growth and learning.
11. Business Insight:
    • Apply business knowledge to drive organizational goals, sharing industry insights with the team.
12. Directs Work:
    • Provide direction, delegate tasks, and remove obstacles to ensure work gets done efficiently.

Skills:

1. Interaction Design, Prototyping, Information Architecture:
   • Apply comprehensive knowledge, act independently, and provide guidance and training to others.
2. Computer Skills:
   • Support business processes using standard office equipment and software, providing training to others. Proficient in Microsoft Office and design tools like Adobe Suite, Zeplin, Figma, Sketch, InVision, Axure, and Miro.
3. Assessment:
   • Analyze data from multiple sources to draw conclusions and make recommendations, providing guidance to others.
4. Verbal and Written Communication:
   • Use clear and effective communication skills to express ideas and formulate plans, providing training to others.
5. Market Research and Analysis:
   • Conduct research and analysis to understand market conditions and facilitate the success of brands, products, or services.
6. Planning and Organising:
   • Plan, organize, prioritize, and oversee activities to meet business objectives efficiently, providing guidance and training to others.

Qualifications:

• Matric / Grade 12 / SAQA Accredited Equivalent.
• Relevant design-related qualification (degree/diploma/certificate).

Experience:

• 5+ years of UX/UI design experience.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry preferred.
• At least 1 year of supervisory experience.

Our client is seeking an experienced UX/UI Design Lead to head the design of user interfaces and the visual and user-experience elements of digital products. This role involves guiding stakeholders and team members in product design and leading the transformation of high-level requirements into interactive, user-friendly designs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design and Conceptualisation:
   • Oversee a collaborative design process for digital products/services, incorporating input from various portfolios to create a scalable and robust design system that enhances the brand. Lead a multidisciplinary team to evolve this system.
2. Customer Experience Mapping:
   • Implement and manage techniques such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis to identify and address customer pain points, improving overall customer interactions.
3. Internal Client Relationship Management:
   • Foster and maintain relationships with internal clients, acting as a trusted business partner. Manage the deployment of internal and/or external resources to support the delivery of business strategies and plans.
4. Product and Solution Development:
   • Oversee the definition, development, and delivery of key products or services within the product development program, ensuring alignment with customer needs.
5. Improvement / Innovation:
   • Identify and implement improvements in existing business practices, and manage projects or work streams within the organization’s change management program, with guidance from senior colleagues.
6. Personal Capability Building:
   • Serve as a subject matter expert in specific technology, policy, regulation, or operational management areas. Stay updated on current and emerging technologies and industry best practices through professional development.
7. Building Capability:
   • Enhance your own capabilities and those of your direct reports within the existing development framework. Provide specialized training or coaching to others across the organization.
8. Recommendations:
   • Suggest changes to policies, processes, standards, and practices to improve operational support.
9. Customer Needs/Experience Research:
   • Lead customer research projects, collecting and analyzing data to understand customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations.
10. Customer Experiences Implementation:
    • Design and manage the implementation of initiatives, tools, and processes to enhance customer experiences.
11. Performance Management:
    • Monitor team performance, allocate tasks, review progress, and take corrective action as needed. Contribute to formal performance management and appraisals.

Competencies:

1. Balances Stakeholders:
   • Effectively balance and anticipate the needs of multiple stakeholders, fostering an environment of high ethical standards and cultural sensitivity.
2. Manages Complexity:
   • Navigate complex and ambiguous situations by asking insightful questions and enriching analyses.
3. Decision Quality:
   • Make timely, effective decisions, ensuring compliance with policies and standards. Integrate analysis and experience to make informed decisions.
4. Cultivates Innovation:
   • Encourage and support creative ideas, fostering a collaborative environment to develop new solutions.
5. Drives Results:
   • Achieve outstanding outcomes by emphasizing urgency and challenging unproductive behaviours.
6. Action Oriented:
   • Approach new opportunities and challenges with high energy and enthusiasm, encouraging others to do the same.
7. Nimble Learning:
   • Learn from successes and failures, promoting experimentation to find the best solutions.
8. Ensures Accountability:
   • Hold yourself and others accountable for meeting commitments, tracking performance, and learning from feedback.
9. Interpersonal Savvy:
   • Build rapport and maintain productive relationships with diverse groups, showing tact and sensitivity in difficult situations.
10. Being Resilient:
    • Maintain composure in crises, using hardships as opportunities for growth and learning.
11. Business Insight:
    • Apply business knowledge to drive organizational goals, sharing industry insights with the team.
12. Directs Work:
    • Provide direction, delegate tasks, and remove obstacles to ensure work gets done efficiently.

Skills:

1. Interaction Design, Prototyping, Information Architecture:
   • Apply comprehensive knowledge, act independently, and provide guidance and training to others.
2. Computer Skills:
   • Support business processes using standard office equipment and software, providing training to others. Proficient in Microsoft Office and design tools like Adobe Suite, Zeplin, Figma, Sketch, InVision, Axure, and Miro.
3. Assessment:
   • Analyze data from multiple sources to draw conclusions and make recommendations, providing guidance to others.
4. Verbal and Written Communication:
   • Use clear and effective communication skills to express ideas and formulate plans, providing training to others.
5. Market Research and Analysis:
   • Conduct research and analysis to understand market conditions and facilitate the success of brands, products, or services.
6. Planning and Organising:
   • Plan, organize, prioritize, and oversee activities to meet business objectives efficiently, providing guidance and training to others.

Qualifications:

• Matric / Grade 12 / SAQA Accredited Equivalent.
• Relevant design-related qualification (degree/diploma/certificate).

Experience:

• 5+ years of UX/UI design experience.
• Experience in the Financial Services industry preferred.
• At least 1 year of supervisory experience.

Our client is looking for an individual to join their growing IT team as an UX/UI Design Lead to Lead the design of user interface and the visual and user-experience elements of digital products. Applying an advanced level of expertise, guide stakeholders and team members in the practice of product design and lead the translation of high-level requirements into interactive designs

Responsibilities:

Design and Conceptualisation

• Lead a collaborative digital product/service design process by gathering input across all product/service portfolios to define a design system that is viable and scalable, and which strengthens the brand. Lead a cross-portfolio, multidisciplinary team that contributes to the evolution of the system.

Customer Experience Mapping:

• Lead implementation and performance of techniques such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis to identify customer pain points, challenges, and hurdles; advise on approaches to eliminate negative experiences and enhance customer interactions.

Internal Client Relationship Management:

• Manage relationships with internal clients and act as a business partner to them, building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and managing the deployment of appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering business strategy and plans.

Product and Solution Development:

• Is responsible for managing the definition, development and delivery of a significant product or service within the product development and engineering program, ensuring alignment with customer requirements.

Improvement / Innovation:

• Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organisation’s change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.

Personal Capability Building:

• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Building Capability:

• Work within existing development framework to build own capabilities and those of direct reports. Provide specialised training or coaching to others throughout the organisation in area of expertise.

Recommendations:

• Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards and practices that would improve operational support.

Customer Needs/Experience Research

• Lead the design and execution of customer research projects by collecting and analysing customer and market data to develop an understanding of customer segments, trends, needs, and expectations.

Customer Experiences Implementation:

• Design and coordinate implementation of differentiating customer experience initiatives, tools, and processes.

Performance Management:

• Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance. OR Monitor the performance of the team; allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality; contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.

Behavioral Competencies:

Balances Stakeholders:

• Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders. For example, shares stakeholder feedback while inspiring others to consistently seek input and learn from their internal and external stakeholders. Promotes an environment of high ethical standards and cross-cultural sensitivity in working with all stakeholders.

Manages Complexity:

• Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations. Accurately defines the key elements of complex, ambiguous situations.

Decision Quality:

• Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, ensures that people’s decisions comply with policies and standards. Integrates analysis, experience, and other inputs to make effective decisions. Accepts workable decisions and also seeks better alternatives.

Cultivates Innovation:

• Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. For example, offers creative ideas, finds unique connections between previously unrelated elements. Actively encourages and supports others’ creativity; builds upon and strengthens new solutions in a positive and collaborative manner.

Drives Results:

• Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances. For example, emphasizes the importance of results; encourages a sense of urgency in others; challenges poor outcomes or unproductive behaviors. Provides assistance or encouragement to help others over obstacles.

Action Oriented:

• Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. For example, encourages others to take timely action and take on new challenges with a can-do attitude. Secures new business opportunities.

Nimble Learning:

• Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. For example, gives people opportunities to try new things; urges people to try new ways to find best solutions. Helps the team leverage the lessons from their successes and failures when facing new situations.

Ensures Accountability:

• Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, measures and tracks team’s and own performance, and helps the team learn from success, failure, and feedback. Adheres to, and enforces, goals, policies, and procedures.

Interpersonal Savvy:

• Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. For example, recognizes even subtle social cues and nimbly responds to others’ needs and preferences. Helps to defuse difficult interpersonal situations by showing high levels of tact, sensitivity, and consideration. Builds rapport with ease.

Being Resilient:

• Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations. For example, deals effectively with crises and volatile situations. Puts people’s failures in perspective and helps them move forward. Maintains calm in adversity; stays objective. Uses hardships and difficult experiences as an opportunity for personal and team growth.

Business Insight:

• Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. For example, leverages insights to shape and drive critical initiatives. Shares industry developments with the team; helps them grasp business and industry fundamentals and understand how they contribute.

Directs Work:

• Provides direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done. For example, delegates tasks, providing generally clear expectations to staff. Coordinates and integrates the team’s work, reducing duplication. Measures team progress using the right indicators; recognizes when problems or shortfalls occur.

Skills:

Interaction Design:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others.

Prototyping:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others.

Information Architecture:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provide guidance and training to others.

Computer skills:

• Support business processes with comprehensive understanding and the effective use of standard office equipment and standard software packages, while also providing guidance and training to others.

Assessment:

• Use comprehensive knowledge and guide and train others on analysing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.

Verbal and Written Communication:

• Apply comprehensive knowledge and guide and train others to use clear and effective verbal and written communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.

Market Research and Analysis:

• Provide technical guidance when required to use research and analysis to develop a comprehensive understanding of market conditions in order to facilitate the success of a brand, product or service.

Planning and Organising:

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently and provide guidance and training to others to plan, organise, prioritise and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives.

Education:

• Matric / Grade 12/ SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential).
• A relevant design related qualification (degree / diploma / certificate) (Essential).

Experience:

• 5 or more years’ UX/UI design experience (Essential).
• Experience in the Financial Services industry (Advantageous).
• 1 or more years’ experience of general supervision of more junior colleagues (Essential).

January 12, 2025

Sawubona, my people! Let me tell you something straight. Are you stuck in Durban traffic on West Street, thinking, “Yoh, I can’t deal with this commute anymore”? If so, you’re in the right place. I’m about to share some powerful insights on how to teach yourself graphic design. You will be capable of working from home. Trust me, it’s going to change your life quicker than a taxi squeezing into a gap in peak-hour traffic.

Five years ago, I was that bloke sitting in a cubicle in Westville. I wore a tie that felt like a noose and dreamed about something better. Now? I run Warten Weg from my pad in Pinetown. I rock shorts and slops. I make more money than I ever did in corporate. Hectic, right?

But here’s the thing. Teaching yourself graphic design to work from home involves more than just watching a few YouTube tutorials. It’s not simply calling it a day. Nah, fam. It’s a proper journey, and I’m going to show you exactly how to make it happen.

How to Teach Yourself Graphic Design So You Can Work From Home

First things first, you need to understand the fundamentals. It’s like building a braai—you can’t just throw meat on the fire and hope for the best. You need to know what you’re doing.

• Colour Theory: Learn about colour combinations that slap harder than amapiano at a Sunday session.
• Typography: Understanding fonts is like knowing your wines—it seems fancy, but anyone can learn it.
• Layout Principles: This is your secret weapon, like knowing where to find parking at the Pavilion.

Pro Tip: You can teach yourself graphic design without spending a cent initially. Start with Canva and GIMP before dropping stacks on Adobe Creative Suite .

Now, here’s where most people get stuck when trying to teach themselves graphic design. They jump straight into trying to design logos for big brands when they can barely centre an image. Shame, man. Don’t be that person.

Start small:

• Make social media posts for your side hustle
• Create posters for your cousin’s car wash.

Listen, mshana, you need a portfolio that’s going to make potential clients say, “yasis!” Here’s how to build a design portfolio with no experience:

• Start with personal projects (they don’t need to know it was for your aunt’s birthday).
• Create mock projects for brands you love
• Document your design process (clients eat this stuff up).
• Make it look professional (even if you’re working from your bedroom in KwaDabeka).

Bru, in 2025, if you’re not online, you don’t exist. Here’s what you need:

• LinkedIn profile (yes, even though it’s boring)
• Instagram portfolio (this is where the magic happens)

Remember, design isn’t just about making things look pretty—it’s about solving problems.

Let me save you some money here. You don’t need everything at once:

• A decent laptop (doesn’t have to be a MacBook; relax)
• Adobe Creative Cloud subscription (student discount if you can get it)
• A good internet connection (fibre is your friend.)

• Second screen
• Coffee machine (trust me on this one)

Now we’re talking business! Here’s how to start making actual money:

• Start Local: Your first client will be that guy selling kotas down the road who needs a menu design.
• Use Your Network: Tell EVERYONE what you do now.
• Join Design Communities: Facebook groups, Reddit (r/graphic_design is your friend)
• Upwork and Fiverr : Yes, the rates are low at first, but it’s a start

• Trying to charge Hillcrest prices with Westville skills
• Not backing up your work (shame; I lost all my files once during load shedding)
• Taking on too many projects at once
• Not getting deposits from clients (got burnt bad on this one)

The best time to start was yesterday; the second best time is now.

Let me be honest with you—learning how to teach yourself graphic design so you can work from home isn’t easy. You’re going to spend many nights staring at your screen, wondering if you’re cut out for this. You’ll have moments where you feel like a proper chop.

But here’s the thing—every professional designer started somewhere. Even those charging R50k for a logo once searched online at 2 AM. They looked up “how to build a graphic design portfolio without clients. “.

Here’s where you can learn more:

• YouTube channels (Yes, including the overseas ones—just ignore when they say “y’all.”)
• Design books (actual books, not just Pinterest boards)
• Local design meetups (networking is everything, my friend)

This is what I want you to understand from this guide. It teaches you how to teach yourself graphic design to work from home. It’s this: it’s possible. I did it, starting from scratch, right here in KZN. No fancy overseas degree, no rich uncle funding my journey—just determination and a lot of late nights.

Remember, design isn’t just about making things look pretty—it’s about solving problems. And trust me, there are plenty of problems out there waiting for someone like you to solve them.

So, what are you waiting for? The best time to start was yesterday; the second best time is now. And when you’re successful, don’t forget about the oke who gave you these tips. Maybe buy me a vanilla cupcake at the next design meetup?

With dedicated daily practice and structured learning, most people can develop professional-level graphic design skills within 6-12 months.

You can start with free tools like Canva, GIMP, or Inkscape before investing in Adobe Creative Suite.

Yes, many successful designers are self-taught. They earn good incomes through freelancing. Some work remotely, while others run their own design businesses.

Lindani L. Thango is the founder of Warten Weg, a KwaZulu-Natal-based design studio specialising in branding and digital design. When he’s not designing or writing blog posts, you can find him braaiing with clients. That’s how we do business in South Africa. Otherwise, he is stuck in traffic on the N2.

• Currently studying or recently completed a qualification in Graphic Design or a related creative field.
• A strong creative portfolio demonstrating design skills and conceptual thinking.
• Basic proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
• Excellent attention to detail and a passion for visual communication.
• Willingness to learn and grow in a fast-paced production environment.
• Ability to take feedback constructively and work collaboratively in a team setting.

• Visual Content Creation: Assist in designing content for both print and digital media, including marketing materials, branded content, and corporate assets.
• Design Support: Work under the guidance of senior designers to develop layouts and creative solutions that align with client and internal briefs.
• Artwork Preparation: Help prepare final artwork for print, ensuring technical accuracy and alignment with production specifications.
• Team Collaboration: Partner with marketing and production departments to ensure smooth project workflows and brand alignment.
• Idea Generation: Contribute to brainstorming sessions by offering fresh creative ideas and innovative design approaches.
• Brand Integrity: Assist in maintaining visual consistency across all communications in line with established brand guidelines.
• Learning and Development: Engage in training, mentorship, and real-time feedback to develop practical skills in a professional setting.
• Time Management: Support multiple ongoing projects, meeting deadlines and maintaining a high standard of quality in all tasks.

Lecturer required to teach and assess learners in the field of graphic design / animation.

• Must have practical experience and relevant qualifications.
• The position is based in central Durban, KZN.

Applicants must have the necessary skills:

• Graphic design / animation skills
• Relevant qualifications
• Teaching skills
• Time management
• Punctuality
• Leadership

Interested parties can email their CVs to class='jxRevEL' >

REQUIREMENTS

Animation skills
Graphic design skills

Position Description :

Graphic Designer : Sneaker Factory

Parow, Cape Town Permanent

A creative and exciting position has arisen within the Marketing department of Sneaker Factory. As a conceptual, practical, and team-oriented person, you will be responsible for designing and producing all marketing requirements across the Sneaker Factory brand. This includes print and dynamic digital content to deliver an excellent marketing and customer shopping experience.

The Creative & Graphic Designer lead will be required to provide print artwork execution and digital content for all our digital platforms, performing the following duties :

• Design various print elements for store campaigns and communications
• Social media content (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube)
• Website creative: banners, landing pages, etc.
• Emailers and email banners
• Media Buying creative
• Animation (advantageous)

Responsibilities :

• Drive the creative strategy, campaign content, and design direction across multiple brands, working with Trade Marketing and Digital teams.
• Maintain the overall brand CI, ensuring strong brand CI coordination across brands.
• Translate and conceptualize seasonal campaigns through ATL / BTL / TTL channels.
• Produce exceptional creative work within the scope of the brand and creative brief, presenting ideas to the team.
• Brief creative teams and external partners effectively.
• Visualize concepts (2D & 3D) and collaborate with design and visual teams to execute them.
• Attend photo shoots and location visits, providing direction to photographers to meet briefs.
• Manage photo shoots from pre-production to post-production.
• Influence and persuade confidently at all levels.
• Make decisions and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Understand store design processes and participate in related meetings.
• Design marketing communications and generate content for digital assets & channels.
• Conceptualize and produce fresh ideas for online/digital material.
• Execute briefs effectively.
• Ensure all work aligns with brand positioning & guidelines.
• Manage creation of marketing materials from concept to final artwork.
• Collaborate with photographers, retouchers, suppliers, and printers.
• Continuously create and conceptualize new ideas.
• Facilitate reproduction and printing processes.

Requirements :

• 3 to 5 years of experience as a Graphic Designer
• 3-year qualification in Graphic Design (Essential)
• Repro knowledge
• High creativity and innovation ability
• Understanding of digital principles
• Up-to-date with digital & industry trends
• Proficient in Apple Mac DTP systems, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Suite
• Additional skills in photography and videography
• Strong art direction and team management skills
• Understanding of photography processes
• Solid knowledge of print processes, substrates, and repro
• Excellent planning and time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Responsibility, commitment, and attention to detail
• High integrity and good values
• Resilience and emotional maturity
• High work ethic and accountability
• Good design sense, layout skills, and ability to accept feedback

Experience managing photo shoots and store design is beneficial.

A portfolio of original artworks is essential for interviews. Only original artworks will be accepted.

Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups as per the Employment Equity Act.

Are you an open and creative thinker with a passion for design? Are you looking to take your career to the next level in a fast-growing, forward-thinking creative agency brimming with opportunity?

Stylistic is a global creative force delivering outstanding work for clients worldwide. We are a high-energy, kind, and proactive company that values quality, creativity, and long-term relationships. We specialise in brand development, creative multimedia, e-commerce and content management websites. Our local studio in Brooklyn, Pretoria, is on the lookout for an exceptional graphic designer and WordPress ninja to join our growing global team of experts (who are also very nice people).

In this role, you'll be working closely with our experienced design team, bringing fresh ideas to the table, gaining hands-on experience and valuable insights. This is a great opportunity for a passionate and creative individual looking to grow their design career in a fast-paced, supportive, and inspiring environment.

Short-listed candidates will undergo a screening and skills assessment to ensure they think, walk and vibe like us. To apply, please send your CV and your portfolio showcasing your best work.

Requirements:

• Be available to work full time from our Brooklyn office
• Degree in graphic design
• 4 years work experience (agency experience preferential)
• A CV and strong portfolio showcasing your design projects and creative abilities
• Proficiency in the latest version of adobe creative cloud programmes
• Mac-savvy
• Well-versed in Microsoft Office programs 
• Strong design, typography, and layout skills
• The ability to follow brand guidelines and deliver on a brief
• Experienced in designing and building WordPress websites
• Strong communication skills - speaks and writes English with confidence and clarity
• Manage time well and work quickly
• Enthusiastic, passionate about good design with a great eye for detail
• Adapt and learn quickly in a dynamic and evolving design landscape
• Reliable, with a commitment to producing quality work
• Enthusiastic attitude to life and a good sense of humour is a prerequisite
• Collaborate with designers, copywriters, and creative directors to develop impactful campaigns

• We will review your application against our job requirements. We do not employ machine learning technologies during this phase as we believe every human deserves attention from another human. We do not think machines can evaluate your application quite like our seasoned recruiting professionals—every person is unique. We promise to give your candidacy a fair and detailed assessment.
• We may then invite you to submit a video interview for the review of the hiring manager. This video interview is often followed by a test or short project that allows us to determine whether you will be a good fit for the team.
• At this point, we will invite you to interview with our hiring manager and/or the interview team. Please note: We do not conduct interviews via text message, Telegram, etc. and we never hire anyone into our organization without having met you face-to-face (or via Zoom). You will be invited to come to a live meeting or Zoom, where you will meet our INFUSE team.
• From there on, it’s decision time! If you are still excited to join INFUSE and we like you as much, we will have a conversation about your offer. We do not make offers without giving you the opportunity to speak with us live. After all, we consider our team members our family, and we want you to feel comfortable and welcomed.
  
  

• Edit e-learning video content using Adobe Premiere Pro and other simple video editing tools (including footage with real human actors, AI-generated speakers, screencasts, and animations).
• Apply mid-level graphic design skills to create visual elements in Figma and integrate them into video content to produce inspiring educational materials.
• Collaborate with instructional designers and production teams to deliver engaging, on-brand content.
• Ensure visual consistency and maintain a high level of attention to detail across all assets.
• Continuously explore new tools, plug-ins, and AI features to improve efficiency and turnaround time.
• Deliver projects on time without compromising quality.
  
  

• Strong proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro (experience editing educational content is a plus)
• Mid-level graphic design skills, with a strong eye for what works visually.
• A passion for clean visuals, efficient workflows, and automation.
• Experience designing in Figma is a strong advantage.
• Interest in AI and openness to exploring how it can enhance your work.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.
• Reliable, detail-oriented, and results-driven.
  
  

• A fully remote position with a flexible, international team.
• The opportunity to grow your skills in video, design, and cutting-edge tools.
• A fast-moving environment that values initiative, learning, and autonomy.
• A collaborative culture that encourages creative and technical exploration.
• Career growth potential within a dynamic team of professionals who are passionate about learning.