Graphic Design Team Leader

Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa's biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that's just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let's reach for the stars.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the design team in terms of team members meeting daily requirements. To handle all design requirements from conception through to delivery by allocating workflow based on skill set, deadlines and priority amongst the design team. The graphic design team leaders will be tasked with the responsibility of overseeing multiple portfolios within the design pods. This will include mentoring of designers and working closely with the Senior Graphic Design Team Leader, and the design traffic coordinator. The team leaders will also be responsible for representing the Design team at meetings with clients and feeding back to the rest of the Design team. 

With Hollywoodbets You Will:

Innovate and create as part of a like-minded, authentic Team eager to achieve goals.

Embrace challenges and the thrill of working in a vibrant and fast-paced industry.

Grow with our development plans and culture that allows you to further your career.

You Bring:

• 5+ years in a design related position

A Bonus To Have:

• Diploma/Degree

What You'll Do For The Brand:

• Oversee the design team. 
• Oversee look and feel as well as quality for all work generated from the department.
• Liaison between designers and other departments for all design job requests as well as ensuring the brief is adequate to start the job with all information on deadlines and scope covered.
• Coordinate design work coming in with a job ticket system and allocate jobs accordingly (Traffic management).
• Create processes and systems within the department as a whole.
• Conduct team member Performance reviews.
• Identify skills gap and suggest learning and development training in the areas that require attention
• Conduct weekly team member/team Leader meetings.
• Oversee design progress against schedule, priority, brief and deadlines. Provide feedback and seek any missing information from job requestor, in order to complete the job. 
• Attend and participate in campaign meetings to understand the artwork required from design team and to allocate it and brief team correctly.
• Have control measures in place to ensure that design requests are reasonable.
• Review draft designs against briefs to ensure that any small errors are corrected before sending and getting feedback from the requestor. 
• Coordinate and control design submittals for requestor's review and approval.
• Ensure that the brand guide and brand standards as well as legal requirements are adhered to at all times.
• Implement corrective measures for identified distractions or issues causing delays.
• Oversee and maintain order and standard processes of design files and stock library.
• Manage the job ticket list, providing reports on the amount of jobs processed and information on time frames to complete the various jobs.
• Assist designer on special research and technical projects. Develop interns and junior designers.
• Assign design champions in the department and maximize the various design strengths in the team.
• Checks with end-supplier the specs required for the job to be saved and ensure designers follows these specs as so it is print-ready.
• Keep up to date with design trends, training courses or webinars as well as seminars relevant to the department's growth.

Please be advised that should you not be contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful.