Junior Creative & Graphic Designer

Part-Time | 3 Days per Week | 3-Month Contract (with potential to extend)
Cape Town
Meekono is a design-led wholesale sourcing platform connecting African creative producers with global buyers across retail, hospitality and corporate sectors. We work at the intersection of craft, product development and trade building commercially viable collections rooted in handmade production.

With trade shows approaching and multiple product ranges in development, we are seeking a capable, Junior Designer to support product design & development and trade execution across digital and physical outputs.

This is a professional contract role suited to someone who can multi-task independently, manage deadlines and deliver high quality work with minimal supervision.

Key responsibilities include:

• Digitising hand-drawn and craft-based designs into clean, production-ready artwork

• Preparing print-ready files for packaging, collateral and exhibition materials

• Editing and refining product imagery (Photoshop essential)

• Creating structured layouts for lookbooks, line sheets and presentations

• Supporting kit development and packaging formats

• Assisting with trade show visual preparation and display materials

• Contributing to physical mock-ups and studio-based sampling where required

This role requires an early stage designer comfortable learning new skills and moving between detailed digital work and practical, hands-on tasks. Accuracy and speed are equally important.

Required Skills & Capability

• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite

• Photoshop (essential)

• Illustrator (highly advantageous), In

Design (advantageous)

• Confident preparing artwork for print and production

• Strong digitisation and artwork clean-up ability

• Solid understanding of layout, hierarchy and visual consistency

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to deadline

• High attention to detail

Preferred Background

• Degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Interior Design, Fashion Design or related discipline

• Experience preparing work for trade, retail or exhibition contexts

• Exposure to product-based or craft-led design environments

Professional Attributes

• Self-directed and accountable

• Calm under pressure during peak production periods

• Organised and structured in workflow

• Commercially aware — understands that design must translate to market

• Comfortable in a growing, entrepreneurial environment

Contract & Compensation

• 2-3 days per week

• 3-month contract

• Potential to extend based on performance and business growth

• Cape Town-based

Job Type: Part-time

Work Location: Remote