Senior Associate - Marketing Design Specialist

Core Details and Responsibilities 

This role is based in our Cape Town office. As Marketing Design Specialist, you will report to the Chief Strategy Officer. From a high-level perspective, the core responsibilities that form your role are broken down into the following 8 categories:

1. Strategy & Project Support
2. Brand & Visual Identity
3. Motion Graphics & Video
4. Digital & Web Design
5. Cross-Functional Collaboration
6. Risk and Compliance Responsibilities

Your Daily Tasks

The Marketing Design Specialist must deliver high-quality design, motion graphics, and video content across a range of marketing and client-facing materials. This role blends brand design, digital design, animation, and editing—ideal for a creator who enjoys producing polished, institutional-grade work.

You will collaborate closely with our Manager – Growth and Marketing Automation, to support campaign activations, digital content, and brand consistency

Strategy & Project Support:

• Help prioritise and structure workloads across multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and external partners to keep campaigns and deliverables on track.
• Maintain shared calendars, timelines, and campaign planning documentation.

Brand & Visual Identity

• Design marketing and client collateral, presentations, brochures, and digital assets.
• Maintain and evolve Catalyst’s visual identity across all channels.
• Produce clean, modern layouts aligned with brand guidelines.
• Brand & Visual Identity Ensure consistent application of brand standards across all marketing assets.
• Collaborate with design resources to brief and finalise visual materials.
• Maintain an organised library of brand templates and collateral.

Motion Graphics & Video

• Create 2D animated explainers and motion assets for social and web.
• Edit short-form videos for marketing and internal initiatives.
• Export and optimise files for digital platforms and presentations

Digital & Web Design

• Create 2D animated explainers and motion assets for social and web.
• Edit short-form videos for marketing and internal initiatives.
• Export and optimise files for digital platforms and presentations

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work with marketing, sales, and executive teams to support key projects
• Align creative assets to campaign requirements and performance insights

Risk and Compliance Responsibilities:

These responsibilities include the representation to the company’s Risk and Compliance perspective and include (but not limited to) the following tasks:

• Governance Framework – Adherence to the governance framework and ensure cohesiveness across all teams, offices, and service lines.
• Quality Control – Adhere to change controls and internal quality assurance
• Compliance Culture - Working in tandem with the groups Head of Compliance and Governance to instill a culture that is centered around good governance and compliance.
• Operational Controls - Driving and contributing to a culture of quality/excellence, through risk awareness and adherence to regulatory compliance standards and operational controls.
• Regulatory Adherence - Ensuring an effective risk-based approach is adopted to meet all regulatory compliance procedures per jurisdiction.

Strategic Expectations

• High-quality visual output across all marketing and client materials.
• Strong, on-brand motion and video assets that enhance storytelling.
• Reliable and consistent delivery in fast-paced campaigns.
• Effective collaboration across functions and jurisdictions.
• Share insights to enable development of new processes and procedures that will create business efficiency and support delivery of client excellence in service.
• Maintain awareness of industry, regulatory, jurisdictional, and other trends that could affect the business.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations staff, business users, project, and implementation managers to achieve desired and elegant solutions.
• Identify potential risks and challenges that could impact the achievement of strategic goals.
• Develop and implement contingency plans to mitigate risks.
• Conduct market research and analysis to identify trends and opportunities.
• Provide strategic advice based on market insights to inform decision-making.
• Develop and manage budgets for strategic initiatives.
• Ensure capital adequacy and efficient allocation of resources.

Required Skills & Experience

Are you getting excited? We are! Before we get too carried away, there are a few requirements you’ll need to check off before you can apply for the position:

• National Diploma in Graphic Design / Multimedia Design / Digital Media Design or Marketing with an advanced design component
• 4 – 6 years of experience in brand, digital, and motion design.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating brand design, motion graphics, and video editing.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects).
• Strong Figma skills for web and digital assets.
• Ability to interpret briefs and execute clean visual design.
• English comprehension and communication skills suitable for a global brand.
• Preferred: experience in financial services, fintech, or corporate environments.