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Design & Marketing Associate

We are looking for a highly creative, dynamic, and detail-oriented Design & Marketing Associate to support the Marketing Manager in delivering high-impact marketing, brand, design, content, and campaign initiatives.

This role is ideal for someone who is not only strong in graphic and multimedia design, but also confident in using AI tools to enhance design output, improve creative workflows, generate campaign concepts, and support modern marketing execution.

The successful candidate should be able to move comfortably between design production, marketing support, content development, campaign execution, internal communications, digital marketing assets, and event planning. They should have a strong eye for visual storytelling, understand how marketing functions operate, and be able to contribute ideas that support brand awareness, lead generation, employee engagement, and business growth.

This is a full-time hybrid position based in Gauteng, supporting multidisciplinary creative and marketing requirements across digital, print, video, internal communications, events, and brand campaigns.

Requirements

Essential Skills & Experience

  • 2+ years’ experience in graphic design, multimedia design, or a related creative role.

  • Experience working in a B2B environment or designing for professional services, technology, software, consulting, or corporate audiences.

  • A strong portfolio showing a variety of design work across digital, print, presentations, campaigns, social media, and video formats.

  • Experience creating design assets for marketing campaigns, email communication, social media, websites, internal communications, and branded collateral.

  • Basic experience in video editing, motion graphics, and audio production.

  • Experience using AI tools as part of the creative or marketing process would be highly beneficial.

  • Strong administration skills.

Design & Technical Skills

The candidate should be proficient in core design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and other editing tools, including AI-enabled tools. The attached role specifically mentions Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Figma, and AI-related editing tools.

Required skills include:

  • Strong graphic design capability across digital and print.

  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and/or After Effects.

  • Experience using Figma or similar design/prototyping tools.

  • Ability to design for social media, email campaigns, websites, presentations, print material, and internal communication.

  • Strong understanding of layout, composition, typography, colour theory, hierarchy, and visual storytelling.

  • Basic video editing, motion graphics, and audio editing ability.

  • Ability to use AI tools to support design, content creation, ideation, image generation, image editing, and workflow efficiency.

  • Ability to prepare artwork correctly for different platforms, formats, and channels.

Desirable / Nice to Have

  • Experience with Webflow or other website design/build tools.

  • Familiarity with email marketing platforms.

  • Basic HTML/CSS knowledge for email or web design.

  • Experience creating internal communication or employee branding material.

  • Photography or illustration skills.

  • Experience using Canva, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Runway, ChatGPT, Copilot, or other AI-enabled creative tools.

  • Experience designing for LinkedIn and other B2B marketing channels.

  • Experience supporting webinars, events, conferences, internal campaigns, or employer branding initiatives.

  • Basic understanding of content marketing, campaign planning, and digital marketing performance.

What this application asks

recruitee

Full name, Email, CV, Cover letter, Phone

  • Do you have 3 to 5+ years’ experience in a creative marketing or brand management role? choose one
  • Do you have a Matric/ Equivalent? yes / no
  • Can you share a link to your portfolio showcasing design, multimedia, or campaign work? written answer
  • Which design tools are you proficient in? choose any
  • Have you ever planned and managed a branded event or exhibition? yes / no
  • What excites you most about working in a brand-focused creative role at a tech company like DVT? written answer · optional
  • Do you have experience in video editing? yes / no
  • Do you have experience with audio production? yes / no
  • Do you currently live in Johannesburg, and happy to work a hybrid model at our Johannesburg offices, based in Melrose? yes / no
  • Please introduce yourself briefly and tell us about an internal marketing and design project you have worked on that you are particularly proud of. Where you drove the engaging content that represents the brand and increased the visibility of the company? and What was the objective, what was your role, which tools or AI tools did you use, and how did you ensure the final output met the brief and brand requirements?” optional

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