Junior Designer at Lula in Cape Town | Apply Now!

🏢 Company: Lula
📌 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
🎨 Job Title: Junior Designer
🕒 Job Type: Full-Time
📂 Department: Marketing / Creative

🌟 About the Role

Lula is searching for a passionate Junior Designer eager to develop their creative abilities while contributing to impactful design work across digital, print, UX/UI, and motion. This role offers exposure to a wide variety of design channels, including Google Display, websites, social media, direct mailers, and large-format digital billboards.

As part of an innovative creative team, you will help craft strong visual solutions, conceptualise ideas, storyboard campaigns, and support the full design life cycle — from briefing to execution. This is the perfect opportunity for someone hungry to grow, learn, and become part of a bold fintech brand known for striking visuals and sharp creative thinking.

🎨 What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with art directors, UX designers, and copywriters to create standout content for a leading fintech brand.

• Develop modern, innovative designs with strong typography and structured layout hierarchy.

• Analyse briefs and identify creative opportunities to elevate brand visual identity.

• Conceptualise and visually represent ideas, submitting work for approval to the Creative Lead.

• Present clear and compelling creative solutions to internal stakeholders.

• Assist in executing campaigns from concept to final delivery across digital and print formats.

• Produce static visual assets including icons, illustrations, social media graphics, web banners, and marketing materials.

• Edit video content for social media and digital platforms.

• Stay up to date with design, digital, and social media trends.

• Work closely with a traffic manager to ensure projects meet deadlines.

• Collaborate with senior designers, project managers, and the wider creative team to bring ideas to life.

🎓 Requirements & Competencies

• Matric / Grade 12 completed.

• 3–5 years of hands-on design experience with a strong portfolio.

• Degree or qualification in Graphic Design / Art Direction or related field.

• Solid understanding of digital communication channels.

• Strong problem-solving mindset and high attention to detail.

• Excellent time-management and deadline-driven work ethic.

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.

• Experience with video editing tools (Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, etc.) is a bonus.

• Ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining quality and consistency.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

• Portfolio demonstrating design and UI/UX capabilities.

📝 Best CV Tips for This Role

• Showcase your strongest visual design projects at the top of your portfolio.

• Include before-and-after visuals or case studies to demonstrate your design thinking.

• Highlight experience across digital platforms, especially social media and web content.

• Add examples of storyboarding, conceptual design, or motion graphics if possible.

• Mention tools you use daily (Adobe Suite, Figma, video editing tools).

• Keep your CV layout clean, modern, and aligned with strong design principles.

• Include measurable achievements (e.g., engagement increase, successful campaign impact).

• Link to an online portfolio with easy navigation and updated projects.