Freelance Senior Designer, Artworker & High-End Retoucher

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 R80k / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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No Sweat → Work

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2015

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Logistics • Consulting

No Sweat → Work is a platform based in South Africa that connects employers with freelance and full-time talent in fields such as advertising, design, marketing, media, and public relations. Unlike traditional recruitment agencies, No Sweat simplifies the hiring process by enabling direct connections between clients and job seekers, managing various administrative tasks like invoicing and payments. With over 10,000 available candidates and a robust track record of successful placements, No Sweat → Work aims to efficiently match talent with project requirements.

📋 Description

• Design and build master key visuals from creative direction and supplied photography • Retouch, composite and manipulate photography to a high professional standard • Clean up imagery and refine lighting, colour, texture, backgrounds, shadows and reflections • Adapt approved creative across multiple formats, sizes, channels and markets • Produce accurate artwork for print, digital, social, OOH, DOOH and POS • Create multiple layouts from approved master creative while maintaining visual consistency • Maintain excellent typography, spacing, alignment, hierarchy and image quality • Prepare final production-ready artwork to required technical specifications • Respond accurately and efficiently to creative and client amends • Work closely with creative and production teams to protect the original concept during rollout • Manage large volumes of assets, versions and file specifications in an organised way • Quality-check work before final delivery • Deliver approximately 17 master deliverables, including key visuals, OOH/DOOH executions, social carousels and an activity pack • Attend project check-ins and meet agreed deadlines during the two project windows

🎯 Requirements

• Significant senior-level design and artwork experience within a creative agency, design studio, production company or similar environment • Strong experience working on major brands and integrated campaigns • Exceptional layout, typography and visual craft • Proven ability to build master key visuals, rather than only adapt supplied finished artwork • High-end photographic retouching and compositing skills • Experience working across OOH, print, digital, social, POS and other campaign formats • Excellent understanding of print and digital production requirements • Experience handling large volumes of campaign adaptations • Ability to work quickly without compromising quality • Excellent attention to detail • Strong organisational and file-management skills • Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects through to final delivery • Ability to work collaboratively with creatives, producers and account teams • Expert-level Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are essential • Portfolio demonstrating strong design, layout and artwork craft • Portfolio demonstrating sophisticated photographic retouching and compositing • Working portfolio link included on CV • Availability during 7–18 September 2026 and 6 October–20 November 2026 • Availability across approximately 36 working days and for project check-ins and reasonable creative/client amends

🏖️ Benefits

• Fixed project fee of R80,000 for the full agreed scope • Fully remote work arrangement • Freelance/project-based engagement • Additional out-of-scope deliverables quoted and approved separately