Senior Designer (2) |
Somewhere
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Somewhere explicitly welcomes applicants based in South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Position:Senior Designer
Location: Remote: SA/LatAm/PH
Work Schedule:9am-5pm EST
Salary:Market Related
About The Company
We are a brand platform on a mission to acquire, scale, and revitalize.A brand platform that acquires and scales consumer brands
About the Role
We're hiring a Senior Designer to join our creative team and help shape the visual expression of our growing portfolio of consumer brands. This is a highly hands-on role for a designer with
exceptional visual taste, strong digital craft, and a flexible creative mindset. You'll move between brand design, campaigns, e-commerce, paid media, email, product launches, and broader digital experiences, across multiple brands. A major part of this role is generative AI. We're looking for someone who already sees AI as part of the creative process, not simply a shortcut for producing images. You should be comfortable directing, prompting, iterating, selecting, compositing, retouching, and refining AI-generated work into sophisticated, commercially usable creative. We operate with the speed and flexibility of a startup. Priorities evolve, briefs aren't always perfectly defined, and designers are expected to bring judgment, curiosity, ownership, and solutions rather than wait for instructions.
What You'll Do
Creative Across the Portfolio
● Develop creative across brand, e-commerce, campaigns, paid social, email, product
launches, landing pages, and other digital touchpoints
● Translate existing brand identities into fresh creative while maintaining consistency and
recognizable brand codes
● Take projects from loose briefs and early-stage ideas through polished final execution
Generative AI and Image-Making
● Use generative AI extensively throughout the creative process, from early exploration and
concept development through image generation and finished creative
● Direct, prompt, iterate, composite, and retouch AI-generated work until its it's sophisticated
and commercially usable
Tools and Craft
● Work primarily across Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, moving confidently between
collaborative digital workflows and high-craft execution
● Manage multiple brands, projects, and priorities simultaneously without compromising the quality of the work
Cross-Team Collaboration
● Partner closely with creative, brand, growth, retention, e-commerce, and product teams
● Contribute references, ideas, creative perspectives, and thoughtful critique to the broader
creative team
Who You Are
You're a senior-level designer with a strong visual point of view and the judgment to recognize
what makes something good, not just how to make something polished.
You don't fit neatly into a single design specialty, and that's the point. You're curious, adaptable,
visually obsessive, and exceptionally resourceful. You're equally comfortable building a system
in Figma, developing imagery through generative AI, refining it in Photoshop, adapting a brand
across digital touchpoints, and solving a creative problem you haven't encountered before.
You thrive in the speed, variety, and ambiguity of a startup and multi-brand portfolio, and you
keep a consistently high bar for taste, craft, creativity, and attention to detail the whole way
through.
What We're Looking For
● A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual taste, typography, composition, and
digital design craft
● Professional experience designing for consumer brands within DTC, CPG, lifestyle,
beauty, wellness, food and beverage, or adjacent categories
● Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, including strong experience working
within collaborative design systems and digital workflows
● Strong hands-on experience with generative AI tools and workflows
● Strong image-making skills, including compositing, retouching, manipulation, and visual
refinement
● An understanding of how brand systems translate into e-commerce and
performance-driven digital environments without becoming generic performance creative
● The ability to work independently, make confident creative decisions, and clearly
communicate the thinking behind them
● Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment, where priorities can shift and ambiguity is
part of the process
● The flexibility to move between different brands, aesthetics, audiences, and creative
challenges
● Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
● A collaborative mindset and the confidence to give, receive, and act on creative feedback
● Strong English communication skills
Nice to Have
● Packaging and print production experience, particularly within CPG (a strong plus, not
required)
● Experience with motion, e-commerce platforms, or emerging creative technologies
Why Join
●Real scope, real variety. You're not designing for one brand. You'll shape the look and
feel of a growing portfolio, with the autonomy to push the work forward.
● AI at the center of the craft. Generative AI is
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
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About Somewhere
Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 1819 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →