Branding Designer

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 Cr...