JOB TITLE: Branding Designer
LOCATION: Remote
CONTRACT TYPE: 12-month secondment, full-time
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
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.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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.
WHY JOIN US?
- 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.
ABOUT ACORN STRATEGY
Voted Large Agency of the Year and winner of multiple international awards, Acorn Strategy is a full-service communications consultancy with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Perth, and London, and an ever-expanding client roster. We are an integrated marketing, public relations, and digital consultancy that delivers sharp, agile, and creative strategies to help grow our clients’ business.
OUR CULTURE
We understand that our success depends on recruiting and retaining the highest quality individuals. We have created an environment for people to grow and learn through a culture that empowers creativity, innovation, and professionalism. The core values we live by are collaboration, agility, bravery, curiosity, and growth.
OUR PEOPLE
Over the years we have come to realise that although each of our team members are unique, we each share a series of personal traits that have successfully linked us culturally as a team and as an agency at large.
ACORN STRATEGY is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating and building a respectful and empowering environment. We aim to create an inclusive workplace that supports our diversity and increases our potential to produce work that better represents and resonates with the world around us.
