- Location
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Marketing
- Seniority
- Lead
- Source
- Workday
Description
Kick-start your career in the online gaming world and experience the very latest in technology and innovation.
What you’ll do
You’ll take ownership of work that gives us our competitive edge, including:
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Social Media Designers across London and Africa, fostering creativity, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Conduct regular feedback sessions, performance reviews and development planning for team members.
- Review and approve creative output, ensuring consistency, quality and adherence to brand standards.
- Manage team workload, resource allocation and project prioritisation across multiple brands and campaigns.
- Provide creative direction and guidance on campaigns, design systems and social-first content execution.
- Act as the escalation point for creative challenges and stakeholder feedback.
- Partner with stakeholders to align creative output with business objectives and campaign goals.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, templates, tools and AI-enabled workflows.
- Develop designers in terms of their skill set from Junior, Intermediate and Senior.
- Ensure delivery deadlines are met without compromising creative excellence.
- Be available after-hours to ensure the team are proactively supporting the social media management team in delivering trending and real time sporting content.
This list covers your core responsibilities – with plenty of room to stretch, explore and take on new challenges as we grow.
What you’ll bring
You’re someone who brings:
- 5-7+ years' experience in social media design, digital design, motion design or related creative disciplines.
- Previous experience mentoring, coaching or leading designers within a fast-paced environment.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating social-first creative excellence across static, motion and video content.
- Experience managing multiple projects, stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong understanding of social media platforms, trends, content formats and performance metrics.
- Experience incorporating AI tools into creative workflows is highly desirable.
Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve
It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:
- Proven experience coaching, mentoring and developing designers to achieve their full potential.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships across teams and levels.
- Experience leading creative workflows, resource planning and project prioritisation in a fast-paced environment.
- A passion for innovation, including the adoption of AI tools and emerging social media trends to enhance creative output.
*Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.
*Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.
This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details - therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.
Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.
The perfect place to work, play and grow!
