[Hiring] Branding Designer @Acorn Strategy

Role Description

The Branding Designer will be embedded within a leading energy company operating across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. This role is responsible for providing end-to-end creative design support for the client's social media and digital channels, and will work directly with the client's Brand & Creative and Digital Marketing functions on day-to-day requirements, priorities and deadlines.

• Concept, design, animate, and edit short-form vertical and square video for social feeds, including reels, shorts, and in-feed video, from supplied footage, stills, archive material, and design assets.
• Produce motion graphics including kinetic typography, animated data and infographics, logo and endframe animation, lower thirds, transitions, and title cards.
• Edit, grade, and finish video to broadcast-acceptable standard, including audio balancing, music selection within licence, and sound design at a basic level.
• Produce burned-in and platform-native captions and subtitles in Arabic and English, including timing, positioning within safe areas, and legibility on muted autoplay.
• Design social posts, carousels, document posts, infographics, quote cards, greeting and occasion assets, announcement assets, and event assets for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.
• Produce animated GIFs and looping assets optimised for file weight and platform playback.
• Design channel covers, banners, profile assets, and highlight assets.
• Design leadership and executive social content, including assets supporting the visibility of the client's senior leadership.
• Design long-form articles and thought-leadership content for website, including layout, hero and section imagery, in-article graphics, data visualization, pull quotes, and end matter.
• Manage file organization, version control, working files, source assets, and licensing records, and hand over editable working files on request.
• Manage multiple concurrent briefs, reactive requests, and event-day requirements against published service levels.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of experience in brand design, corporate communications, agency, or in-house creative roles.
• Demonstrated experience delivering integrated branding, campaigns, executive communications, events, environmental branding, and corporate communication materials.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and managing complex creative projects from concept through execution.
• Experience supporting corporate reputation, executive communications, investor-facing materials, or high-profile corporate events is highly desirable.
• Arabic and English bilingual design capability is mandatory, including Arabic typography, right-to-left layout, animated Arabic type, bilingual lock-ups, and Arabic subtitling and captioning in video.
• Capability to operate independently without guidance from a Creative Director or Art Director, demonstrating strong creative judgment, ownership, and accountability from concept through delivery.
• Advanced proficiency in After Effects and Premiere Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, for motion design, video editing, grading, and finishing.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and working proficiency in Figma.
• Demonstrable command of short-form vertical video as a craft, including pacing, hook construction, on-screen text hierarchy, and legibility on muted autoplay.
• Current, working knowledge of the creative environment and technical specifications of LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
• Experience managing a high-volume content calendar with concurrent briefs, reactive requests, and firm publication dates.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.

Benefits

• Be part of a global, growing organisation with exposure across multiple markets.
• Work in a collaborative, multicultural environment.
• Opportunity for career growth as the organisation expands.