Senior Specialist: Motion Graphic Designer
Absa Group 🇿🇦 Sandton, 1617, South Africa
The Senior Motion Graphic Designer will be responsible for bringing the brand to life through compelling animation, motion graphics, and visual storytelling, while simplifying complex financial concepts for various marketing initiatives. This role also involves overseeing end-to-end content production, leading the Creative Governance Forum, and continuously innovating with emerging creative technologies.
Responsibilities
- Bring the brand to life through compelling animation, motion graphics, and visual storytelling
- Simplify complex financial concepts through creative storytelling and design
- Create platform-optimised content for paid social, digital campaigns, and performance marketing
- Oversee end-to-end content production: storyboarding, animation, editing, sound design, typography
- Lead the Creative Governance Forum, ensuring compliance, brand consistency, and quality
- Collaborate across teams, agencies, and stakeholders to produce high-impact content
- Innovate continuously, applying emerging creative technologies (including AI)
- Integrate visual content into CRM & marketing automation journeys
- Support content strategy across digital platforms and client segments
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, Motion Design, Visual Communication or related field
- Certifications in digital design, animation, or emerging technologies (advantageous)
- Digital marketing and AI-related credentials welcome
- 5–7 years progressive experience in motion design; ideally within B2B, financial services, consulting, fintech, or enterprise tech
- Proven success delivering digital brand communication across social, paid media, and CRM-integrated campaigns
- Experience managing quick-turnaround production cycles without compromising quality
- Collaborative experience within agile creative or cross-functional teams
- A strong portfolio showcasing exceptional static and motion design work
Benefits
- Equal opportunity, affirmative action employer
- Preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups
- Absa Group offers an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management and insurance
Key Skills
About Absa Group
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond. We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
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