Multimedia Designer
Cape Town
Multimedia Designer
- Our organization is looking for a tech-savvy individual to work as a Multimedia Designer for our Studio.
- Your primary goal for this position will be designing and creating content for social media, YouTube, television advertisements,films, and other related media platforms. As a Multimedia Designer...
Role Description:
- Our organization is looking for a tech-savvy individual to work as a Multimedia Designer for our Studio.
- Your primary goal for this position will be designing and creating content for social media, YouTube, television advertisements,films, and other related media platforms. As a Multimedia Designer, you will be responsible for creating innovative content as per the client’s requirements.
- As an ideal candidate, you should have an excellent understanding of various digital imaging processing techniques. You should possess excellent communication skills with the ability to pay close attention to details.
Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, or a relatedfield.
- Proven work experience as a Multimedia Designer or a similar position in the Design industry.
- A portfolio of design content from past work experiences.
- A professional certificate in Illustrator, CAD, or equivalent.
- Demonstrate working knowledge of storyboards, animation, and visual designs.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Illustrate the ability to create visually appealing content.
- Ability to take feedback and make necessary changes.
- Exceptional listening skills.
- Proficient in multimedia designing tools such as Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.
- Ability to prioritize the tasks efficiently.
- A keen eye for details for accuracy.
- Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.
- A creative individual with the ability to think out of the box.
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work for long hours if needed.
- A detail-oriented individual with decision-making skills.
Management Level:
Multimedia Designer
Day to day responsibilities:
In this position, you will meet with the stakeholders of the project to assess what they need. You will then
create a design draft to submit for approval. After you create the final design, you will pass it off to the
relevant department.
create a design draft to submit for approval. After you create the final design, you will pass it off to the
relevant department.
- Meeting the clients to understand their requirements.
- Coming up with innovative ideas and concepts as per the specifications.
- Preparing documentation to update the clients.
- Suggesting new technologies as per the client’s requirements.
- Working in collaboration with the Studio team and Project Manager team.
- Creating visual effects, animations, and other related graphics.
- Performing detailed research before creating realistic models.
- Attending standup sessions to create various multimedia presentations and content.
- Developing storyboards for video games, advertisements, and others.
- Creating audio related to the video content.
- Performing editing and mixing of audio as per the requirements.
- Taking feedback from the team members and making changes accordingly.
- Staying updated with the latest trends in the advertising and video games industry.
Client:
Nerdware
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Solutions Architect
Johannesburg
Solutions Architect
- You will provide solution architecture and design options and map business requirements to technical and system requirements for complex projects in a large scale, highly available, distributed systems environment...
Role Description:
- You will provide solution architecture and design options and map business requirements to
technical and system requirements for complex projects in a large scale, highly available,
distributed systems environment. - You will work collaboratively with tech and business stakeholders to deliver innovative
enterprise technology solutions that solve business problems. - This role requires advanced technical skills to architect complex service-oriented solutions
along with well-developed soft skills to efficiently communicate across the business. - Experience with Marketing Technologies is highly desirable.
Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree in business or related field or an MBA.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in software architecture or a related field.
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
- Advanced technical skills.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- Advanced knowledge in dev ops and execution of tasks and duties.
- Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- A track record of following through on commitments.
- Excellent planning, organisational, and time management skills.
- Experience leading and developing top-performing teams.
- A history of leading and supporting successful projects.
- Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer
- Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated ability to use data to influence tech/non-tech Executive leaders and drive decisions
- Solve complex technical challenges, establish credibility & build deep relationships with other senior technical leaders
- The ability to “think big” and simultaneously understand and appreciate the details necessary to operationalize overarching strategies and goals. The ability to make sense of complex issues and ambiguous situations.
- Challenges assumptions about “the way things are done”. Communicates explicitly what must change, why changes are necessary, and possible outcomes and costs. Adjusts communication style to the audience to help them understand and accept the change
- Demonstrates and fosters a sense of urgency, a “can-do” spirit, a sense of optimism, ownership, and a strong commitment to achieving goals and organizational success. Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and a commitment to achieving meaningful results.
- Collaboration across multiple teams, stakeholders management in and outside the domain
- Experience mentoring and growing talent
Management Level:
Solutions Architect
Day to day responsibilities:
- Design a successful highly distributed, large scale platform architecture that enablesfaster time to market for our customer and partner-facing features
- Bring thought technical leadership including architectural and strategic advice in the areas of architecture principles, technology lifecycles, and best practices related to building a scalable platform.
- Provide guidance on platform performance and reliability targets, including the definition of relevant metrics to be monitored, non-functional requirements and future scalability
- Ensure that the appropriate solution governance, compliance and resilience is built into solutions
- Own the design and delivery of the architecture and infrastructure required to modernize existing infrastructure and product capabilities.
- Be an active part of the architecture community and the architecture board.
- Communicate and enforce architecture standards within Marketing Tech.
- Work closely with product owners and engineers to design, implement, continually improve highly scalable applications and services
- Facilitate deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure success when implementing these technology solutions
- Be a trusted technical advisor to the Tech ELT; provide technical guidance to other team members
- Identify emergent technology trends and opportunities for future growth and development
- Identify long term solutions that emphasize performance, maintainability, and developer experience.
Client:
Nerdware
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Project Manager
Johannesburg
Project Manager
- You will provide project management on various projects and product developments within the organisation. The key focus being on time delivery and within the budget of agreed upon scope...
Role Description:
- You will provide project management on various projects and product developments within the organisation. The key focus being on time delivery and within the budget of agreed upon scope.
- You will work collaboratively with tech and business stakeholders to deliver innovative enterprise technology solutions that solve business problems.
- This role requires advanced traditional project management and agile project management skills along with well-developed soft skills to efficiently communicate across the business and clients as well.
- Experience with Marketing Technologies is highly desirable.
Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree in business or related field.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in project management or a related field.
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- Knowledge in dev ops and execution of tasks and duties
- Experience creating detailed project reports and presenting the said report.
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- A track record of following through on commitments.
- Excellent planning, organisational, and time management skills.
- Experience leading and developing top-performing teams.
- A history of leading and supporting successful projects.
- Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer
- Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated ability to use data to influence tech/non-tech Executive leaders and drive decisions
- Solve complex technical challenges, establish credibility & build deep relationships with other senior technical leaders
- The ability to “think big” and simultaneously understand and appreciate the details necessary to operationalize overarching strategies and goals. The ability to make sense of complex issues and ambiguous situations.
- Challenges assumptions about “the way things are done”. Communicates explicitly what must change, why changes are necessary, and possible outcomes and costs. Adjusts communication style to the audience to help them understand and accept the change
- Demonstrates and fosters a sense of urgency, a “can-do” spirit, a sense of optimism, ownership, and a strong commitment to achieving goals and organizational success. Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and a commitment to achieving meaningful results.
- Collaboration across multiple teams, stakeholders management in and outside the domain
- Accountability
- Adaptability
- Budget Management
- Clear Communication
- Creativity
- Decisiveness
- Delegation
- Forecasting
- Leadership
- Management
- Organization
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Thinking
- Stress Management
- Time Management
- Experience mentoring and growing talent
Management Level:
Project Manager
Day to day responsibilities:
- Plan and develop project process and output deliverables
- Project scope & budget management
- Weekly/Fortnightly progress updates depending on project size
- Project team & resource management
- Be an active part of the project management community.
- Communicate and enforce project/product management within Marketing Tech.
- Work closely with product owners and engineers to design, implement, continually improve highly scalable applications and services.
Client:
Nerdware
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Creative Director
Cape Town
Creative Director
- Our company is driven to find the next big thing, and we’re hoping that can include you, as our newest creative director. Leading a team of thinkers and doers, the right creative director will bring a mix of marketing expertise and business understanding to the position, promoting our company and that of our valued clients...
Role Description:
- Our company is driven to find the next big thing, and we’re hoping that can include you, as our newest creative director. Leading a team of thinkers and doers, the right creative director will bring a mix of marketing expertise and business understanding to the position, promoting our company and that of our valued clients.
- We’re looking for an experienced manager of people, someone that can inspire others, taking our creativity to a new level as we continue to grow. The ideal candidate will have a natural eye for design and a drive to inspire dynamic ideas that connect with all types of audiences.
- As the creative director, you will work closely with the studio and strategy team to deliver engaging content that meets the expectations of our customers. You should be extremely creative, dedicated, and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience:
- 10 years of related experience with 7+ years of creative direction in agency or corporate setting
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Business Administrations, or similar
- Years of experience creating marketing/advertising campaigns from developing vision and the message platform to overseeing production on time and budget
- Understanding and past experience creating integrated content across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, but also understand offline and print
- Proven experience with concept development
- Highly skilled with leading a team of creative talent
- Strong creative vision with an understanding of business objectives
- Exceptional knowledge of digital design for web, UX, UI, front-end development, and design principles and tools, such as XD, Figma, or Sketch
- Expert understanding of the creative process in marketing—packaging, branding, video, photography, UX copywriting, and digital art direction
- Experience with creating and managing digital marketing campaigns
- Superior leadership and mentorship skills
- Strong visual and conceptual design capabilities
- Innovative and strategic thinker with a growth mindset
Management Level:
Creative Director
Day to day responsibilities:
- Supervise a cross-functional team of graphic designers, copywriters, social media experts,
photographers/videographers, and project managers in the strategic development of messages
and deliverables - Prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short- and long-term needs, establishing production schedules by collaborating with designers, copywriters, and production departments
- Conduct brainstorming sessions with creative team, maintaining strategic and creative thinking to develop innovative and actionable creative initiatives in a fiscally responsible manner
- Review and approve art and copy developed by the team, ensuring deliverables that effectively address marketing goals and challenges
- Produce fresh, innovative work that translates complex ideas into compelling digital experiences for visually sophisticated audiences
- Present, or oversee presentation of final concepts, and obtain approvals for deliverables
- Manage the digital creative process from start to finish by supervising the creative team in the production of all marketing deliverables across multiple digital platforms
- Benchmark and implement innovative solutions to optimize digital campaign performance
- Monitor emerging digital trends, customers’ needs, operational statistics, and the competitive landscape to create insightful reports and adjust the digital approach accordingly
- Generate ideas for enhancing creative implementation and digital strategy to foster a digital-first environment and inspire innovation within the creative team
- Leverage social media analytics to produce more compelling brand messaging that drives lead generation and conversion
- Collaborate with other internal teams on shaping the strategic digital direction for the company across all channels to achieve unity in messaging
Client:
Nerdware
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Business Analyst
Johannesburg
Business Analyst
We are hiring a business analyst to join our project team. You will report directly to the project
manager. Your main tasks will include performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting
processes, and performing some user acceptance testing...
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manager. Your main tasks will include performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting
processes, and performing some user acceptance testing...
Role Description:
We are hiring a business analyst to join our project team. You will report directly to the project
manager. Your main tasks will include performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting
processes, and performing some user acceptance testing. To succeed in this role you should
have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to explain difficult concepts to
non-technical users.
manager. Your main tasks will include performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting
processes, and performing some user acceptance testing. To succeed in this role you should
have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to explain difficult concepts to
non-technical users.
Experience:
- Expert knowledge in Software Engineering and Solution architecture with strong competencies in distributed systems, cloud solutions and data processing
- Design and solve complex business problems by architecting simple, practical solutions that empower product development
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience designing, building, improving, and operating high-performance, high-availability, and scalable infrastructure that serves millions of visitors per day on an e-commerce platform.
- Extensive knowledge of scalable distributed system strategies (e.g. service-oriented architecture (SOA), microservices, event-driven, or cloud-native), technologies (e.g. load balancers,firewalls, API gateways), and web standards (e.g. micro frontends, REST, GraphQL, web security mechanisms)
- Experience with designing, implementing, and maintaining a service-oriented architecture (SOA), container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker), services, and API models (e.g. OpenAPI)
- Proficient in modeling the software solutions (C4 model, with focus on C3-C4 levels), design patterns, design principles and building technical roadmaps
- Strong understanding of cloud tech such as GCP/AWS and Kubernetes
- Ability to innovate on business needs by providing a deep architectural and technical expertise that opens new avenues of opportunities and experimentation
- Develop an understanding of business processes, dataflows, strategy, and long term thinking to come up with an end-state architecture.
- 9+ years of software development experience, minimum of 4 years in Senior Engineer or Architect role
Management Level:
Business Analyst
Day to day responsibilities:
- Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
- Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
- Staying up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
- Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
- Performing requirements analysis.
- Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
- Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
- Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
- Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.
- Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
- Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency.
- Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.
- Performing user acceptance testing.
- Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
- Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.
- Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
- Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.
- Managing competing resources and priorities.
- Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.
Client:
Nerdware
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