Creative QA Analyst

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Creative QA Analyst based in South Africa.

• Review static advertising creatives before publication, ensuring copy, visuals, branding, and technical specifications meet quality standards.
• Identify and correct typos, grammatical errors, punctuation issues, awkward phrasing, and inconsistencies across headlines, body copy, and calls to action.
• Inspect visual execution, including alignment, spacing, typography, hierarchy, color usage, image quality, logo placement, and overall composition.
• Cross-check creative assets against client-specific brand guidelines, ensuring fonts, colors, tone, and visual standards are applied consistently.
• Verify dimensions, file formats, and placement specifications for platforms such as Meta, TikTok, and other advertising channels.
• Provide designers and strategists with clear, specific, and actionable feedback on execution issues, broken layouts, low-resolution imagery, or off-brand elements.
• Maintain and continuously improve QA checklists by documenting newly identified error patterns across client accounts.
• Coordinate with project managers and creative teams through Slack and project management tools to maintain production speed without compromising quality.
• Track recurring issues and identify patterns that may indicate broader process or workflow gaps.
• Consistently meet QA throughput, accuracy, turnaround-time, and process-improvement expectations while reviewing up to 50 static ads per day.
• Progress toward independent ownership of QA standards across active client accounts and contribute ideas that improve efficiency and reduce QA cycle times.

• At least 2 years of experience in quality assurance, proofreading, content review, or another highly detail-oriented role, ideally within a creative agency, marketing, publishing, or similar environment.
• Native or near-native English proficiency, both written and spoken, with excellent command of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and copy consistency.
• Familiarity with performance marketing and static advertising formats, particularly Meta and TikTok specifications.
• Strong visual attention to detail, with the ability to assess alignment, typography, hierarchy, spacing, composition, and brand consistency without needing to be a designer.
• Experience interpreting and applying brand guidelines consistently across a high volume of creative assets and multiple client accounts.
• Highly organized and methodical, with the ability to manage checklists, workflows, deadlines, and reviews across several accounts simultaneously.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced production environment where creative assets are delivered and reviewed daily.
• Direct and precise communication style, with the confidence to provide specific feedback and clearly identify even subtle execution issues.
• Strong analytical and pattern-recognition skills, with the ability to identify recurring problems and turn observations into process improvements.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with designers, strategists, project managers, and other creative stakeholders.
• Successful shortlisted candidates will be expected to complete a practical assessment of approximately 60–90 minutes, reviewing static ads against a provided brand sheet.

• Compensation of USD $1,500 per month.
• Full-time contractor position.
• Fully remote work arrangement.
• Fixed schedule of 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
• Clearly defined responsibilities focused exclusively on creative quality assurance, without requiring design or strategy responsibilities.
• Structured feedback processes and clearly defined KPIs from the beginning.
• Opportunity to work across multiple DTC brands and high-volume performance marketing campaigns.
• Back-office support covering payroll, onboarding, and HR administration.
• Opportunity to develop expertise in creative QA, advertising standards, brand consistency, and high-volume creative production.