Brand & Digital Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Assist in the ongoing delivery, application, and development of the MasterStart and MasterStart Institute brands.

• Produce high-quality, engaging, and commercially viable creative content across digital, print, presentations, campaigns, and web platforms.

• Convert marketing and business briefs into professionally executed designs.

• Initially learn and implement established visual systems with guidance from the current Senior Freelance Designer.

• Gradually take on more responsibility for projects and contribute to creative concepts, campaign development, and brand evolution.

• Work in conjunction with the Senior Designer, Marketing Team, and internal stakeholders.

• Ensure consistent application of brand elements across design work while providing creative suggestions.

• Create campaign concepts and scalable visual systems across diverse channels.

• Design social media, paid media, email, landing pages, websites, and other digital assets.

• Format and design internal, client-facing, and event presentations, including slide layouts, diagrams, and infographics.

• Develop integrated campaign materials, brochures, recruitment documents, reports, guides, one-pagers, and print collateral.

• Accurately apply partner and client branding in co-branded creative projects.

• Maintain Figma libraries, components, templates, organized source files, and reusable design assets.

• Prepare, proof, and ensure quality for artwork designated for digital and print production.

• Respond to feedback, manage revisions, and communicate proactively regarding timelines or capacity.

• Take responsibility for the quality and completeness of creative work prior to final submission.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of five years of professional design experience or a portfolio showcasing a comparable level of expertise.

• Extensive experience in brand, marketing, and digital design.

• Proven experience working within established brand guidelines and design systems.

• Experience in creating creative solutions for both business and consumer audiences.

• Strong background in presentation design.

• Experience designing for digital, web, and print environments.

• Proven ability to produce professional digital and print-ready artwork.

• A strong portfolio that demonstrates outstanding typography, layout, visual hierarchy, attention to detail, and conceptual thinking.

• Experience operating effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders.

• Proficiency in working within established Figma libraries, components, and templates.

• Understanding of basic responsive web design principles.

• Ability to utilize existing drag-and-drop tools or page builders for basic page-building and content updates.

• Capability to prepare artwork accurately for digital and print production, including dimensions, resolution, color profiles, bleed, and export settings.

• Ability to deliver work within agreed timelines and manage revisions efficiently.

🏝️ Benefits

• Freelance / retainer engagement basis.

• Remote position.