Highbury Media (Pty) Ltd is SA’s largest independent magazine and digital publishing company responsible for some of the country’s best-performing titles. We are currently looking for a junior food editor for our Food department.

Are you interested in food styling? Do you want to excel in the exhilarating world of print and digital content creation? Have you gone to culinary school? Are you the kind of person that wakes up excited to eat breakfast? Do you live to eat? Then this is the position for you.

We look after a variety of award-winning magazines, ranging from focusing on full-blown delicious food trends to budget meals, fitness-inspired food and living a healthy life. We create all the food content and it is pure excitement.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Keeping up to date with food trends 
• Managing budgets and keeping within specific budgets 
• Tracking and handling invoices 
• Liaising with editors from different magazines
• Develop and execute content strategy 
• Planning, briefing, propping and executing a stills food shoot 
• Planning, briefing, propping and executing a food video 
• Dealing with internal and external clients 
• Delegate food assistants to assist on various projects 
• Pitch and execute print and digital story ideas related to trends, news and the intersection of food, luxury, restaurants and style
• Meet tight deadlines while maintaining a superior level of accuracy and attention to detail
• The ideal candidate will be curious, with enthusiasm for generating food-related ideas
• This position reports to the food editor

Requirements:

• Culinary background or culinary school diploma 
• Able to be extremely meticulous and precise in food preparation
• One to two years of working experience in the food industry
• Able to prep, prop, plan and execute a food shoot 
• Able to prep, prop, plan and execute a food video 
• A passion for food and food culture, restaurants, travel, style, design and lifestyle
• Organised and able to work on different tasks at one time 
• Creative mind-set, hardworking and strong communications skills 
• Budgets and recons 
• Able to work in a high paced deadline driven environment on various platforms 
• Self-starter that is able to make decisions, we don’t micromanage people. 
• A team player than is open to collaborate well with other creatives, editorial and design teams
• Must have a valid driver’s license and own car

Posted on 01 Oct 14:45

Title:                             UX specialist

Details:                        Full Time, Cape Town Based. 

Reporting into:             Head of Development

Effective date:             Immediately

Company and Role Summary:

We’re looking for a UX Specialist to join our ranks. But we’ll only call the good ones back.

We know, as do you if you’re the right person, that technology and advertising are fast becoming bonded to one another. We know that if an agency team can’t handle and interpret big data, iterate responsive development solutions and has no interest in the Internet of Things that they’ll fall behind the curve faster than Adobe can release updates. We’re after team members who know this and more. Bring a winning smile and attitude, plus a host of things we don’t already know and you’ll be well on your way to forming part of a business that genuinely believes in championing technology in the creative space.

We’re collaborative, young, obsessed with innovation and entirely undeterred by difficult problems. We tackle any challenge head on, creatively.

Get in touch if you’d like to combine your serious technology skills with your creativity more often – coding isn’t sexy to many in the industry, but we’d love you to come and prove our suspicion that the future of the industry is where expertly crafted pixels meet eager eyeballs.

Position Overview

Minimum Requirements:

• Some form of UX course i.e. Interaction Design Foundation Course completion.
• More than three years’ related work experience
• Strong, all round UX skills in Persona Development, User Journey creation, Wireframing, Analytics, strategic thinking, information architecture, etc.
• Must know his/her way around Adobe Photoshop and be able to work to pixel perfect designs
• Must know his/her way Axure or Balsamiq
• Knows the full end to end UX process i.e. persona development, user journeys, focus group setups, data analysis, etc.
• Must work to best practices
• Must have the ability to work on multiple projects to tight deadlines
• Must be able to work well in a team and also recommend best practices and new ideas
• Must be motivated to continue learning, researching and implement new technologies.

Advantages

• Passion for design
• Digital agency/Creative studio experience

Technical skills

• Axure
• Extensive
• UX process
• Extensive
• Photoshop
• Solid
• Illustrator
• Solid
• Mobile experience / Responsive design patterns, etc.
• Essential

Qualification required

The candidate must have some form of formal training in User Experience / Design thinking / Computer Interaction. Work experience will be taken into consideration for an exceptional candidate. Killer portfolios are most welcome – we kind of expect them to be honest.

Must-Haves

• Matric
• Essential
• Relevant Tertiary Qualification (B.Sci, B.Com IS, etc.)
• Beneficial
• Three years’ UX experience
• Essential
• Two years of dealing with agency type work
• Beneficial
• Digital Design Experience
• Essential

Posted on 28 Sep 12:51

Job description

Designer

Digitas Liquorice is one of South Africa’s leading full-service digital agencies, delivering best-in-class strategy, creative, and technology. We work with some of the country’s leading brands. We are experts in the full range of digital disciplines including web, mobile, social, CRM and SEO/SEM. The agency is young, dynamic and growing rapidly and we are constantly looking for great digital professional who really wants to make a major impact on the digital landscape.

Are you a design Ninja? The Bruce Lee of design? We need you to join our special force of elite ass kicking designers. We don’t wear black cloaks, but we do create some amazing websites, social media campaigns and general digital mastery.

We need someone who knows how to share their toys and work in a team. If you dream in photoshop, eat digital for breakfast lunch and supper, and create your own shortcuts… come showcase your skills at one of the hottest digital agencies in Cape Town. Only designers with seriously hot portfolios need apply, we aren’t interested in the invitation you did for your grandma’s 79th birthday.
 
Company description

Liquorice Africa Advertising is nine years old, the newish kid on the block that quickly becoming South Africa’s largest digital agency. We live in the city (Cape Town, CBD), and our team is tighter than your skinny jeans. It is an environment where you can inspire and be inspired – so what are you doing still reading this? Send us your CV along with URLs of your Kick Ass Portfolio.

The ideal candidate is:

• Detail obsessed, creative thinking and a doer who thrives in a collaborative, fast paced environment.
• Be adaptable and able to pick up new techniques.
• A creative who lives for emerging technologies, and is hungry to keep learning.
• Brave enough to think different while maintaining the highest standards of design usability.
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills.

 Job description

Web and print designer

• Design school graduate.
• Some web design experience but not necessarily code experience.
• Some print design experience is necessary.
• Understand the web and print – and how both work.
• Show an interest and keen-ness in thinking of new ways to design websites other than the many many standard template driven sites of today.

Skills required

Skills set – Primary:

• Web and interactive design
• Print design – an advantage as this role will require you to have both print & design skills
• Photoshop & Indesign genius
• Familiar with interactive design and have a keen interest in the latest digital trends.
• Nunchucks
• Star throwing

 Some cool facts about Liquorice: 

1. We only work on big brands that impress your mates. You get to work on them.
2. Encourage change and improvement from within. We are always improving. 
3. Thursday = Innovation Sessions, Friday socials and regular out of office bashes.
4. Hard work, yes but rewarding and lots of fun. 

Requirements

Posted on 27 Sep 15:58