Head of Design - Jumia (Full time)
Jumia -
Cairo, EgyptPosted 5 years ago132People have clicked1 open position
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Job Description
Main responsibilities:
- Influencing design-led thinking across the business.
- Managing the design team and freelancers as required and helping develop our people
- Lead concept development in relation to design and creative outputs.
- Take a lead role in managing the design and creative elements of projects and be the point of contact for clients brand and creative projects.
- Develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and that advance our brand and proposition strategy.
- Develop and manage productivity and to continuously improve the design team’s production capabilities.
- Ensuring that design and creative projects are delivered on time and ensuring commercial success
- Work with internal teams to for briefing & deliverables.
- Provide quality control over design outputs and production.
- Establishing and developing best practice with the design and creative team.
- Point of contact for liaising with Jumia Studios and external suppliers, such as photographers, stylist to ensure you have the right assets for design.
We offer:
- A unique experience in an international, entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- An unparalleled personal and professional improvement as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures
- The opportunity to be part of a team full of talented people with the best backgrounds.
Job Requirements
Required skills & qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience leading creative experience design
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects Knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography for online and offline design work.
- The ability to storyboard or translate ideas to designers and others, influencing external and internal stakeholders.
- Attention to details.
- Strong working knowledge of online and offline design, brand development and the creative process.
- Ability to supervise and develop employees.
- Expert of industry-standard software: Adobe creative suite, presentation software, social media platforms (animation software is a plus).
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Organized enough to manage a busy and varied workflow and deliver on time.
- Ability to work on a tight brief/schedule.
- Ability to think creatively and produce new ideas and concepts
- Patient, fast, accurate and neat.
- Comfortable working in a high impact, high energy, fast-paced environment
