Digital Experience Designer

Overview

Designer (Remote, Cape Town-Based | English)

Location : Fully Remote (Residing in Cape Town, South Africa)

Employment Type : Full-Time, Fully-Remote, Independent Contractor

Languages Required : English (proficient), other languages an advantage

Experience Required : 3+ years

Salary Range : EUR 15,000 – 20,000 gross per annum (depending on experience)

Reports to : Quintin Coetzee, Head of People

Works Closely With : Head of Engineering, Developers, Marketing Lead, Head of People

Start Date Goal : 1 October 2025 or sooner (please let us know if you have a notice period)

About Us

We're a remote-first, mission-driven, registered non-profit, comprising around 50 highly-skilled and motivated professionals from all around the world! Our culture is built on trust, autonomy, and collaborative professionalism.

Open Energy Transition ( OET ) is a German non-profit organization, advancing the global energy transition by developing innovative open-source tools and data solutions for energy and grid planning. Our vision is to make open approaches the global standard by 2030, enabling energy planning that is more accessible, transparent, and effective.

We're now looking for a talented Designer to join our growing team. This is an opportunity to contribute to high-impact design work across web, branding, and publications in a mission-driven, autonomous, trusting, dynamic, fully-remote company.

To learn more about OET and our team, you can visit our website, and browse around our Handbook.

Role & Responsibilities

As our Designer, you'll handle a wide range of design responsibilities — from web design and graphics to presentations, social media visuals, reports, and more. Your work will help ensure that everything we publish is visually compelling, clear, and on brand.

Key responsibilities include :

• Web & UI Design : Create and iterate on web page layouts, style guides, and graphics for our digital platforms. Design new websites for future projects. Work closely with our Software Engineers.
• Graphic Design : Produce visuals for reports, marketing campaigns, social media, planning docs, and more.
• Branding : Uphold and evolve our visual identity across platforms and outputs, both internal and external.
• Presentation Design : Support slide design for key presentations and internal communications (proposals, funding applications, etc.).
• Creative Asset Development : Build and improve templates and branded assets for internal and external use.
• Copy Review : Collaborate with marketing and editorial teams to ensure designs align with written content and key messages.

Design Language

Please review our design language before applying. Examples of existing design work can be found at the links below. Your work would extend and improve upon our current publications, website, graphics, and related outputs.

Qualifications

You'll Be a Great Fit If You Have...

A university degree is not required—your experience, communication skills, and work ethic matter most. If you have a degree, it may be considered a bonus.

What We Offer

Hiring Process

We take hiring seriously and aim to find candidates who will contribute positively to our culture and succeed in their roles. Our process includes :

How to Apply

If you're excited to impact a growing global non-profit, apply via Greenhouse and include :

Please note : due to volume, we may not respond to individual emails or LinkedIn requests. If you have not heard back within 3 weeks, please consider it unsuccessful at that point, though we may contact you for future roles. We maintain Talent Pools for future opportunities.

Additional

Seniority level : Mid-Senior level

Employment type : Full-time

Job function : Information Technology

Industries : Software Development

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