🏢 Company: Rank Interactive
📍 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
💼 Job Type: Full-Time
🖥️ Work Model: Hybrid

Role Overview

Rank Interactive, the digital powerhouse of Rank Group plc, is a global leader in online entertainment—spanning casino, bingo, slots, and social gaming experiences. With operations across the UK, Gibraltar, Malta, Barcelona, Mauritius, South Africa, and Israel, the company delivers digital entertainment to millions of users daily.

As a Design Team Lead, you will step into a pivotal creative leadership role. This position merges hands-on design excellence with people leadership, giving you ownership of both visual execution and team development.

You will craft high-impact creative assets, guide designers through thoughtful mentorship, uphold quality across all deliverables, and collaborate closely with the Creative Manager to maintain an energetic, productive, and innovative creative environment.

This role is ideal for a senior designer with strong leadership instincts, exceptional aesthetic judgment, and a passion for building high-performing creative teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Create compelling digital and marketing assets that elevate brand identity and campaign performance.

• Mentor designers through constructive, supportive, and skill-building feedback.

• Maintain and update creative templates, ensuring teams work efficiently with current design systems.

• Ensure visibility of workloads, deadlines, and quality standards across the creative division.

• Conduct competitor analysis to inspire fresh and differentiating creative concepts.

• Lead impactful one-on-one sessions that promote career development and individual growth.

• Support appraisals, leave administration, and internal communications with clarity and structure.

• Partner with the Creative Manager to elevate creative direction, team culture, and operational smoothness.

Qualifications & Experience

• 4–6 years of professional design experience in an agency or in-house creative environment.

• Strong digital design portfolio showcasing campaign work, visual identity, and multi-channel execution.

• Experience with digital and print design; motion and multimedia experience is advantageous.

• Proven ability to produce high-quality creative under shifting priorities and timelines.

• Prior experience mentoring, guiding, or providing creative feedback to peers or junior talent.

• High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro.

• Added advantage: HTML skills, 3D knowledge, retouching, or animation.

• Comfortable working with structured workflow systems such as Airtable, Monday.com, OMG, or Basecamp.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially around creative discussions, critique, and stakeholder engagement.

• Interest in the gaming or entertainment industry, with curiosity about consumer behaviour and campaign effectiveness.

• Tertiary qualification in Design, Visual Communication, or a related field preferred.

Why Join Rank Interactive

• Work in an inclusive, global culture with team members across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

• Hybrid working model supporting balance and wellbeing.

• Employee wellbeing programmes, including support networks, PepTalk sessions, and specialised resources such as menopause support.

• Career development through leadership training, creative development tracks, and industry certifications.

• Gain international exposure by collaborating with multi-market teams.

• Strong benefits offering, including pensions, bonus schemes, private medical insurance, and life insurance (varies by region).

Rank Group is committed to fairness, accessibility, and inclusion throughout its recruitment process. Candidates can request reasonable adjustments prior to interviews.

CV Application Tips

1. Showcase Hands-On Design Strength
Provide a portfolio with digital campaign assets, brand systems, motion design, or multi-format pieces aligned with consumer-facing entertainment or gaming environments.

2. Demonstrate Leadership Influence
Highlight moments where you mentored designers, elevated team performance, introduced workflow improvements, or led creative critiques.

3. Emphasise Technical Breadth
List core Adobe Creative Suite skills and any additional capabilities such as motion graphics, HTML, UI design, 3D or animation.

4. Quantify Impact Where Possible
Mention metrics such as improved campaign engagement, decreased turnaround times, or increased team efficiency under your guidance.

5. Reflect Strategic Thinking
Show examples of competitor research, creative trend analysis, brand guardianship, or contributions to creative strategy.

6. Present a Clean, Professional CV Layout
Use consistent spacing, typography, and visual hierarchy to demonstrate your design sensibility—your CV itself should reflect your standards of quality.