Senior Designer (2) |
Cape Town - South Africa
Job Summary
Position:Senior Designer
Location: Remote: SA/LatAm/PH
Work Schedule: 9am-5pm EST
Salary:Market Related
About The Company
We are a brand platform on a mission to acquire scale and revitalize.A brand platform that acquires and scales consumer brands
About the Role
Were hiring a Senior Designer to join our creative team and help shape the visual expression of our growing portfolio of consumer brands. This is a highly hands-on role for a designer with
exceptional visual taste strong digital craft and a flexible creative mindset. Youll move between brand design campaigns e-commerce paid media email product launches and broader digital experiences across multiple brands. A major part of this role is generative AI. Were looking for someone who already sees AI as part of the creative process not simply a shortcut for producing images. You should be comfortable directing prompting iterating selecting compositing retouching and refining AI-generated work into sophisticated commercially usable creative. We operate with the speed and flexibility of a startup. Priorities evolve briefs arent always perfectly defined and designers are expected to bring judgment curiosity ownership and solutions rather than wait for instructions.
What Youll Do
Creative Across the Portfolio
Develop creative across brand e-commerce campaigns paid social email product
launches landing pages and other digital touchpoints
Translate existing brand identities into fresh creative while maintaining consistency and
recognizable brand codes
Take projects from loose briefs and early-stage ideas through polished final execution
Generative AI and Image-Making
Use generative AI extensively throughout the creative process from early exploration and
concept development through image generation and finished creative
Direct prompt iterate composite and retouch AI-generated work until its its sophisticated
and commercially usable
Tools and Craft
Work primarily across Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud moving confidently between
collaborative digital workflows and high-craft execution
Manage multiple brands projects and priorities simultaneously without compromising the quality of the work
Cross-Team Collaboration
Partner closely with creative brand growth retention e-commerce and product teams
Contribute references ideas creative perspectives and thoughtful critique to the broader
creative team
Who You Are
Youre a senior-level designer with a strong visual point of view and the judgment to recognize
what makes something good not just how to make something polished.
You dont fit neatly into a single design specialty and thats the point. Youre curious adaptable
visually obsessive and exceptionally resourceful. Youre equally comfortable building a system
in Figma developing imagery through generative AI refining it in Photoshop adapting a brand
across digital touchpoints and solving a creative problem you havent encountered before.
You thrive in the speed variety and ambiguity of a startup and multi-brand portfolio and you
keep a consistently high bar for taste craft creativity and attention to detail the whole way
through.
What Were Looking For
A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual taste typography composition and
digital design craft
Professional experience designing for consumer brands within DTC CPG lifestyle
beauty wellness food and beverage or adjacent categories
Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud including strong experience working
within collaborative design systems and digital workflows
Strong hands-on experience with generative AI tools and workflows
Strong image-making skills including compositing retouching manipulation and visual
refinement
An understanding of how brand systems translate into e-commerce and
performance-driven digital environments without becoming generic performance creative
The ability to work independently make confident creative decisions and clearly
communicate the thinking behind them
Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment where priorities can shift and ambiguity is
part of the process
The flexibility to move between different brands aesthetics audiences and creative
challenges
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
A collaborative mindset and the confidence to give receive and act on creative feedback
Strong English communication skills
Nice to Have
Packaging and print production experience particularly within CPG (a strong plus not
required)
Experience with motion e-commerce platforms or emerging creative technologies
Why Join
Real scope real variety. Youre not designing for one brand. Youll shape the look and
feel of a growing portfolio with the autonomy to push the work forward.
AI at the center of the craft. Generative AI isnt a side experiment here. Its part of how
We are creative every day and youll help define how thats done well.
Your work ships and matters. What you make goes straight into campaigns launches
and customer touchpoints and directly shapes how our brands are perceived.
Grow with a platform thats just getting started.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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