Job Ref #: OKF11
Industry: Academic
Job Type: Permanent
Positions Available: 1

Job Description

Our Cape Town office is looking for a Junior Art Director focusing on retail advertising

to join our Creative Team on one of our retail clients.

Role Summary:

• We are looking for a passionate Junior Art Director. Advertising agency
• experience is a bonus. Someone with a strong creative portfolio that showcases the skill set to
• capture promotional excitement and breakthrough designs for a national retail
• client. The successful applicant will carry visual and conceptual skills from the initial
• brief to the final artwork.
• Our ideal candidate must have a keen eye for little and big details, and work
• extremely well under pressure with quick deadlines, high work volume and
• demanding pitches. We want someone resourceful, a self-starter and a conceptual
• thinker. If you are all of the above and then some, have great communication skills,
• exceptional lay-out skills; know a thing or two about Art Direction in an Agency
• environment and play well with others – we want to see your portfolio.

Job Scope includes but is not limited to:

• Working in a team under the leadership of a Group Head and Creative
• Director to conceptualise and execute campaigns based on both client and
• internal briefs.
• Present work imaginatively and confidently to clients and senior creatives
• Be skilled in design and conceptualisation.
• Maintain exceptionally high standards for execution and attention to detail.
• Be skilled in design and conceptualisation.
• Collaborate and communicate well with the team and other departments.
• Have an eternally positive disposition especially when challenges and
• deadlines arise.

Job Requirements

Minimum relevant experience and skills/attributes required:

• Relevant tertiary qualification

• 1 to 2 years’ experience as an art director in a large/integrated

Advertising Agency is a bonus

• or 2 years’ previous experience in a high-volume environment would be a benefit

• Demonstrated experience with social media design across various social

media platforms

• Strong skills in design software such as InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator non-

negotiable

• Knowledge and proficiency in Figma

• Knowledge and proficiency using AI tools

• Experience in digital and experiential advertising is advantageous

• Strong interpersonal skills; a team player, persuasive negotiator, positive and

innovative thinker

• Maintain high standards for execution and attention to detail

• Highly motivated and a high level of initiative; ability to work independently,

in support of the agency’s creative goals and the client’s business objectives