Senior Graphic Designer - Festival Brand

About the role

LINKVIVA, an experience creator founded in 2003 across the Middle East, is looking for a Senior Graphic Designer for its flagship wellness and festival property. This is a freelance, hands-on role in which you will shape the visual language of the brand across physical and digital touchpoints, from key visuals and campaign assets to social content, invitations, presentations and on-ground communications. The role uses emerging creative technologies, including AI image-generation tools, in everyday work.

Key responsibilities

• Audit existing assets against the brand toolkit and ensure the visual identity is applied consistently across every touchpoint.
• Create assets for key visuals, social media, digital campaigns, email, WhatsApp collateral, printed invitations, event communications and presentation templates.
• Apply typography, hierarchy and graphic systems, adapting them to different formats, audiences and objectives.
• Develop icons, graphic devices and illustrative elements, and build premium presentation decks, speaker materials and sponsor presentations in PowerPoint and Keynote.
• Use AI image-generation tools such as Midjourney or Adobe Firefly for concept exploration, moodboarding and visualisation.
• Source and treat real-life and stock photography through retouching, colour treatment and compositing.
• Collaborate with copywriters, strategists and marketers, manage multiple deliverables in a fast-moving festival timeline, and present the reasoning behind creative decisions.

Required profile

• A strong portfolio of premium brand and communication design, ideally across wellness, luxury, lifestyle, hospitality, culture, events or experiential environments.
• Ability to work within an established identity and evolve it without compromising its integrity.
• Quick, craft-conscious work, able to receive creative direction and explain and defend design choices.
• Nice to have: experience on wellness, lifestyle, cultural or festival campaigns in the region, and awareness of MENA audiences.

Required skills

• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Excellent typography, layout and composition, and presentation design in PowerPoint and Keynote.
• Creating key visuals, iconography and illustration; photography selection, retouching and compositing.
• Active use of AI image-generation tools such as Midjourney or Adobe Firefly.
• Nice to have: motion design or basic After Effects, Figma, Arabic typography and bilingual English-Arabic design.

What we offer

• Work on a high-profile LINKVIVA-owned festival IP with regional visibility.
• A competitive contract package commensurate with experience.
• An initial 6-month contract, with the potential to extend based on project requirements and performance.