JOB TITLE: Social Media & Motion Designer
LOCATION: Remote (aligned to KSA hours)
CONTRACT TYPE: 12-month secondment, full-time
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Social Media & Motion Designer will provide end-to-end creative design support for our client's social media and digital channels, working directly with the client's Digital Marketing function on day-to-day briefs and deadlines, with creative outputs reviewed and approved by the client's Brand & Creative function.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Short-form video and motion
- 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, licensed music selection, and basic sound design.
- Produce burned-in and platform-native captions and subtitles in Arabic and English, timed and positioned for legibility on muted autoplay.
- Reframe a single piece of source material across aspect ratios and durations per platform without loss of composition or legibility.
- Build and maintain reusable motion templates, project files, and asset libraries for recurring formats.
Social-first design
- 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 supporting the visibility of senior leadership.
- Adapt a single creative across every platform and both languages, maintaining composition, hierarchy, and brand integrity.
- Produce dark post and paid media creative to specification where required.
Editorial and long-form design
- Design long-form articles and thought-leadership content for the client's website, including layout, hero and section imagery, in-article graphics, data visualization, pull quotes, and end matter.
- Design the social expression of each long-form piece, including promotional assets, carousels, and video cut-downs.
- Design newsletter and email layouts and supporting social assets.
Craft, governance, and workflow
- Work within the client's approved brand system and social template library; extend it in coordination with Brand & Creative where a format requires it.
- Maintain current knowledge of platform specifications and adapt output as they change.
- Apply rigorous quality assurance before delivery: bilingual spelling and typography, safe areas, aspect ratios, file weight, colour, export settings, caption timing, and mobile playback.
- Schedule approved content into the client's publishing tool against the approved content calendar.
- Manage file organisation, version control, working files, source assets, and licensing records; hand over editable files on request.
- Manage multiple concurrent briefs, reactive requests, and event-day requirements against agreed service levels.
- Apply AI-enabled creative workflows where they improve speed or quality (versioning, upscaling, background removal, rotoscoping, localisation), subject to human quality control and client approval of tools used.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 6–8+ years of experience in social media design, motion design, brand design, or in-house/agency creative roles.
- 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, designed to the same standard in both languages.
- Capability to operate independently without guidance from a Creative Director or Art Director, with 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.
- Editorial and long-form design capability, including web article layout, information hierarchy, and data visualization.
- Experience managing a high-volume content calendar with concurrent briefs, reactive requests, and firm publication dates.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Able to work within Riyadh business hours (Sunday–Thursday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.) and within a maximum three-hour time-zone difference from Saudi Arabia, with occasional availability outside normal hours.
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.