YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Social Media, Motion Designer
About the role
• Provide end-to-end creative design support for the client's social media and digital channels
• Work directly with the client's Digital Marketing function on day-to-day briefs and deadlines
• Create, design, animate, edit, grade, and finish short-form vertical and square social video
• Produce motion graphics including kinetic typography, animated data and infographics, logo and endframe animation, lower thirds, transitions, and title cards
• Select licensed music, balance audio, and perform basic sound design
• Produce Arabic and English burned-in and platform-native captions and subtitles
• Reframe source material across platform-specific aspect ratios and durations
• Build and maintain reusable motion templates, project files, and asset libraries
• Design social posts, carousels, document posts, infographics, quote cards, greeting and occasion assets, announcement assets, and event assets
• Produce animated GIFs and looping assets
• Design channel covers, banners, profile assets, and highlight assets
• Design leadership and executive social content
• Adapt creative across platforms and both languages while maintaining brand integrity
• Produce dark post and paid media creative where required
• Design long-form website articles and thought-leadership content, including imagery, graphics, data visualization, pull quotes, and end matter
• Design social promotion for long-form content, including carousels and video cut-downs
• Design newsletter and email layouts and supporting social assets
• Work within and extend the client's approved brand system and social template library
• Maintain knowledge of platform specifications
• Perform quality assurance covering bilingual spelling and typography, safe areas, aspect ratios, file weight, colour, export settings, caption timing, and mobile playback
• Schedule approved content in the client's publishing tool
• Manage file organisation, version control, working files, source assets, and licensing records; hand over editable files when requested
• Manage concurrent briefs, reactive requests, and event-day requirements against agreed service levels
• Apply AI-enabled creative workflows with human quality control and client approval
• Have creative outputs reviewed and approved by the client's Brand & Creative function
• 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
• 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