Graphics Designer
Role Overview
The Graphics Designer creates clear, distinctive, and brand-consistent visual communication for editorial, marketing, corporate, digital, social, print, and event needs.
The role turns briefs into concepts, layouts, imagery, and production-ready assets using established brand systems and templates.
The position is a craft development role with a progression path toward Senior Graphic Designer.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the Organization
Sky News Arabia is a pan-Arab news organization broadcasting across television, radio, and online platforms.
The organization covers breaking news, business, lifestyle, arts, culture, and sports and operates across MENA, Europe, and the United States.
Sky News Arabia Academy provides training for media professionals.
Role Summary
The Graphics Designer creates clear, distinctive, and brand-consistent visual communication for editorial, marketing, corporate, digital, social, print, and event needs.
The role turns briefs into concepts, layouts, imagery, and production-ready assets using established brand systems and templates.
The position is a craft development role with a progression path toward Senior Graphic Designer.
Responsibilities
- Develop visual concepts and deliver polished design solutions from approved briefs and brand objectives.
- Create assets for editorial stories, campaigns, social media, digital products, presentations, print, events, and internal communications.
- Apply typography, layout, colour, image selection, hierarchy, and information-design principles.
- Produce infographics, charts, maps, and data visualizations while verifying underlying data accuracy.
- Adapt master creative across formats, sizes, languages, channels, resolutions, and accessibility requirements.
- Apply and extend established templates and design systems.
- Prepare production-ready artwork, source files, specifications, and handover packages.
- Collaborate with Art Directors, motion designers, editors, producers, marketers, journalists, and product teams.
- Source or create imagery responsibly and maintain licences, credits, releases, and usage records.
- Use approved AI-assisted workflows, verify output integrity, and record provenance.
- Maintain organized project files, naming conventions, version control, metadata, master assets, and archive handover.
- Manage multiple assignments, respond to feedback, and communicate risks or brief gaps early.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional qualification in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or a related discipline.
- At least 2 years of professional graphic design experience in an agency, publishing, broadcast, or in-house studio environment.
- Current portfolio demonstrating role-relevant creative and technical capability.
- Solid design fundamentals in typography, colour, layout, composition, and hierarchy.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with working knowledge of Figma.
- Working knowledge of Arabic and Latin bilingual typography and layout.
- Understanding of digital, social, print, and accessibility output specifications and export requirements.
- Ability to work accurately within an existing brand system and template set.
- Practical familiarity with AI-assisted ideation and production tooling, including output verification and responsible-use requirements.
- Awareness of copyright, image licensing, credits, and releases.
- Strong attention to detail, disciplined file and version management, and reliable delivery to deadlines.
- Fluent written and spoken Arabic and English are essential.
Additional Skills
- Basic After Effects or motion capability is an advantage.
- Collaborative, receptive to feedback, and proactive in raising issues early.
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