Senior Design Manager

Job Description

Responsibilities: 

1. Guest Experience & MaterialsDesign and production of all physical and experiential materials guests encounter – welcome kits, itinerary documents, signage, environmental graphics, and printed collateral. 
2. Sales & Marketing CollateralBrochures, proposals, presentations, and seasonal lookbooks that communicate the White Desert and Dr Jones experience at the highest standard. 
3. Digital & Performance MarketingStatic and motion assets for digital advertising, email campaigns, and social content. You understand how design functions within paid and organic digital channels and can produce assets that perform as well as they look. 
4. Web & E-CommerceLanding page design and production for campaign pages, booking flows, and the online retail experience, in close collaboration with developers where required. 
5. Retail & Boutique Merchandising
6. Packaging, swing tags, signage, and in-store design for the White Desert retail boutique — translating brand language into physical product and retail environment. 
7. Brand Guardianship Day-to-day stewardship of our brand book and CI guidelines, working with our external agency to evolve and maintain the framework. You set the standard internally and hold every team and every asset to it. 

Ideal Profile:

—6–9 years of design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates genuine range across print, digital, identity, and environmental or spatial work 

—Experience at a luxury, hospitality, travel, or lifestyle brand, either in-house or agency-side with comparable clients 

—Proven ability to manage external agency relationships as the client-side lead, holding briefs, challenging work, and maintaining brand standards without a creative director above you day-to-day 

—Mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and proficiency in Figma 

—A strong command of premium print production — paper stocks, finishes, print specifications, and supplier management 

—Comfort designing for digital performance contexts: ad formats, email, web, and e-commerce 

—Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple briefs across teams simultaneously and deliver without hand-holding 

—Based in, or willing to relocate to, Cape Town 

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