Senior Design Lead

Brandtech+ (formerly known as OLIVER+) is a global team of creative thinkers, tech-savvy trendsetters, and production pros specialising in film, CGI, automation, AI, motion design, and digital/print content. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our focus is to connect clients with high-quality solutions, talent and ambitious opportunities worldwide.  

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Role: Design Lead

Location: Hybrid (Cape Town City Centre) 

 

About the role: 

In a highly competitive and saturated marketplace creating visually stunning, impactful, and effective creative work is essential. We want to create industry-leading, world-class work that’s truly beautiful, smart, and effective. To help us achieve our goal, we are looking for a strong, highly motivated designer to join us in this exciting ambition.   

As Design Lead you will be taking design projects from brief to completion for our client You will be a focused-on print, digital and social assets and campaigns, online content, and product visuals. You’re able to lead, not just be led, and enjoy taking ownership and responsibility for projects. You need to be a team player that would enjoy sharing their knowledge and experience.  

You will take the lead at concept development of visual design and the development of creative projects, ensuring consistency with the overall brand and marketing strategy, and represent best-in-class execution whilst still being very hands on. And as such, the team will look to you as a Brand Guardian on key accounts. A strong understanding of typography, graphic design best practices and branding is essential as is the experience to execute projects of all sizes and complete them with resourcefulness and dedication.  

As well as possessing fast, accurate design skills, the right candidate will be well organized and able to work autonomously but will very much be a team player with a positive, can-do mind set. Our work is a collaborative process and may circulate across our team of art directors and designers, so you will need to be both flexible and systematic. The volume of work does not always call for specialist art workers, so our designers need to be comfortable creating and updating artwork at times. 

 

Our team will work across the following, but not limited to:  

• Digital Marketing Material  
• Print Marketing Material  
• Motion Assets
• Digital Display Ad Media  
• Social Content  
• Adaptations  
• Presentation Designs  
• Product and campaign assets  
• Re-purposing and adaptation of existing brand toolkits to recreate fresh content 

What you will be doing: 

You will work on a variety of different projects ranging from presentation design, digital and social advertising, brand development, key visual mock ups, and a range of responsive web projects. As we foster a close working relationship with our clients, you must be comfortable presenting and taking client feedback directly. Building client trust is key to producing better work.  

 

Leadership  

• To provide leadership and expertise to the design team 

• Mentor, develop and/or line manage other copywriters who are less senior 

• Work with Account Managers to help decide on best talent for a brief 

• Brand guardianship on key accounts 

• Presenting your work internally and to clients 

Design  

• Developing an expert understanding of the brand guidelines and brand templates 

• Ensuring consistency and adherence to guidelines across all deliverables 

• Following existing styles and templates to create accurate, on-brand design  

• Creating collateral including but not limited to brochures, infographics, social posts, storyboards, emailers, banners and templates 

• Conducting searches to identify on-brand imagery/footage to add to the brand’s existing asset bank 

• Brainstorming and conceptualizing on seasonal, topical, and celebratory campaigns and creatives
 

• Incorporating frequent self-initiated quality checks into your standard workflow and maintaining high standards of quality in all deliverables 

• Maintaining best practices with file-keeping and file set-up  

• Taking and investigating briefs from 
Project Managers, working closely with internal and external Creative Directors and collaborating with the wider creative team to ensure on-brief delivery  

• Putting in place effective creative workflows to train, guide and inspire the wider creative team  

• Conducting quality checks to ensure standards of quality are being met across the team  

• Maintaining timesheets accurately and on time  

• Staying abreast of design trends and sharing with colleagues 

• Identifying opportunities to add creativity within the boundaries of the brand world and templates 

• Managing workloads within agreed timings 

• Gauging feasibility of proposed timings and negotiating reasonable and acceptable revisions if required 

 

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Our values shape everything we do: 

Be Ambitious to succeed   

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible   

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work   

Be always learning and listening to understand   

Be Results-focused  to exceed expectations   

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations   
 

Brandtech+, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.   

Brandtech+ has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.'