Title:  Design Lead

Job Classification

145776

Job Post End Date: 20 May 2026

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

Nedbank is seeking a Digital Design Lead to elevate creative thinking, design quality, and confidence across the design team. The role focuses on ensuring digital marketing and brand led content is conceptually strong, consistently on brand, and delivers meaningful business impact.
The Digital Design Lead guides and challenges designers to continually improve the quality of their work, while remaining closely involved in the development and delivery of creative outputs.

Job Responsibilities

Creative leadership and quality
•    Lead and elevate conceptual thinking across the digital design team, ensuring work is insight driven, strategically sound, and aligned to Nedbank’s brand and marketing objectives.
•    Guide and mentor designers, setting and maintaining high standards for creative quality, craft, and originality.
•    Translate briefs into strong creative ideas and guide their expression across digital marketing channels and formats.
•    Create an environment that encourages designers to challenge ideas, test thinking, and refine work.
•    Lead and participate in creative reviews, providing clear, constructive, and actionable feedback.
•    Champion best practice, emerging trends, and evolving digital marketing and design standards.

Design contribution
•    Contribute to hands on design execution, particularly on concept driven, complex, or high priority digital marketing initiatives.
•    Step into the work when needed to resolve creative challenges or elevate overall output.

Collaboration and stakeholder engagement
•    Engage stakeholders and creative partner agencies at key creative moments, working collaboratively with the Production and Delivery team.
•    Work closely with digital channel teams and the Copywriting team to ensure creative intent is carried through execution.
•    Collaborate with senior design leadership to align on creative direction, priorities, and quality standards.

People Specification

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

• Bachelor of Arts: Marketing , Bachelor of Commerce: Marketing

Preferred Certifications

• Relevant digital design, visual communication or creative leadership certifications are advantageous.

Minimum Experience Level

•  +5 years’ experience in a senior digital design role
•  Demonstrated experience mentoring, guiding, or leading other designers.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Strong understanding of digital design for marketing across platforms
• Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, digital design workflows, and the effective use of AI enabled creative tools to enhance design quality and efficiency.
• Strong understanding of visual communication, layout, and brand application across digital channels.

Behavioural Competencies

• Strong conceptual thinker with a clear point of view on creative quality and brand expression.
• Confident in leading creative feedback, critique, and constructive discussions.
• Collaborative, professional team player with the ability to influence and guide others.
• Quality driven, detail oriented, and committed to continuous improvement and leading by example.