Social Media + Marketing Designer
Somewhere
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R27,750 – R55,500 ZAR. This role is suited for mid-level professionals. 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
Social Media + Marketing Designer
Remote | Full-TimeReports To:Brand Marketing ManagerWorking Hours:Minimum 4–6 Hours Daily Overlap with U.S. Central Time
About the Company
We are a fast-growing consumer products company known for creating fun, memorable, and highly shareable products that bring personality and excitement into everyday life.
Our products are sold through major retail partners across North America, and we are investing heavily in growing our direct-to-consumer presence through engaging content, creative storytelling, and social-first marketing.
We are looking for a highly creative Social Content Designer & Video Editor who understands how to turn existing assets into content that captures attention, drives engagement, and strengthens brand awareness.
This is a hands-on production role focused on creating social-first creative assets across video, motion graphics, static content, product imagery, and marketing materials.
If you love creating content that stops the scroll, understand how modern social platforms work, and enjoy bringing products to life through motion and design, we'd love to meet you.
The Opportunity
This is not a traditional graphic design role.
We are looking for someone who understands social media content, platform behavior, short-form video, and visual storytelling.
You will work from an existing library of:
* Product photography
* Lifestyle imagery
* Product videos
* Marketing assets
* Raw content files
Your responsibility is to transform those assets into compelling social content that feels native to each platform while remaining consistent with our brand identity.
You will partner closely with the Brand Marketing Manager, who will provide campaign direction, messaging priorities, and creative briefs.
Your job is to execute those ideas at a high level with speed, creativity, and consistency.
* Instagram Reels: Edit raw footage and product video into short-form content built for retention — hook frame in the first 3 seconds, pacing tied to what's actually working on the platform right now, not what worked six months ago.
* Trend translation: Spot formats, sounds, and edit styles trending across IG and TikTok and adapt them into BigMouth's voice fast — before they're stale, not after.
* Paid social creative: Build multiple hook and CTA variants per concept for Meta and TikTok ad testing. Every asset ships with a defined call-to-action and product tag or link.
* TikTok-native editing: Cut TikTok-native versions yourself — different pacing, on-screen text, and sound conventions than IG — in addition to feeding the TikTok agency clean, organized raw assets and brand context.
* E-commerce content: Build shoppable, product-tagged assets for Instagram/Facebook Shop and PDP-ready lifestyle imagery, with real category variety — not the same hero product on repeat.
* Graphics & carousels: Product-forward, brand-consistent, scroll-stopping statics and carousels for Instagram and Facebook.
* GIFs & motion graphics: Bring still product imagery to life with animation and motion.
* Photo editing: Color-correct, retouch, clean backgrounds, and prep raw product photography so it looks intentional — not pulled straight off a drive.
* Pinterest adaptation: Resize and reformat assets for Pinterest's format and audience.
* Experience: 2–4 years of hands-on social content creation and video editing, with a portfolio of platform-native work — not general graphic design, and not one-and-done polish pieces.
* Trend-fluent: You're already plugged into what's working on IG and TikTok — you don't need a trend report handed to you. You bring it to the table unprompted.
* Genuinely creative: You pitch a concept and defend it, not just three safe options for someone else to pick from.
* Fast: You can produce a high volume of content weekly — Reels, statics, carousels — without burning out the brand voice or falling into repetitive formats. This role is built for consistent, fast output, not occasional polish.
* Video editing: Expert in Premiere, CapCut, or equivalent. You create momentum and visual interest from raw or still footage without relying on live UGC.
* Motion: After Effects, Photoshop, or equivalent. Strong GIF and animation skills.
* Platform fluency: You know how a TikTok-native cut differs from an IG cut, and how a paid asset differs from an organic one — different hook length, different CTA weight, different pacing, same source footage.
* E-commerce fluency: You understand product tagging, shoppable posts, and what makes an asset PDP-ready versus social-only.
* Photo skills: Lightroom / Camera Raw to process RAW product files; Photoshop for retouching and background cleanup
* Design: Photoshop and Illustrator for clean, brand-consistent statics that don't need a second designer to polish.
* Brand voice: You naturally get humor-forward brands. You're funny without trying to be.
* AI fluency: You use AI tools to accelerate production, generate variations, and QC your own w
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
At R27,750/month, this role is on par with the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($1,500/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.
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.
About Somewhere
Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 748 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →