Digital Videographer & Photographer

Q Communications; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading communications agency in Dubai is seeking a creative professional to produce and curate engaging visual content for various social media platforms. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of 3 years of local experience in photography/videography, proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, and must demonstrate creativity, attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills. This role involves producing daily content, analyzing performance metrics, and collaborating with teams to execute effective campaigns.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Flexible work-life balance

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years local experience in photography/videography.
• Demonstrated knowledge of photography/videography within the digital domain.
• Proficient in using Adobe Creative Suite and relevant design programs.

Responsibilities

• Produce and curate image and video content daily.
• Film and edit short video content for social media.
• Analyze performance of social media content to guide future direction.

Skills

Creativity and Imagination

Attention to Detail

Good People Skills

Flexibility

Patience

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Who we are

With offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Manchester, Q has a reputation for big ideas, new insights, relentless tenacity and achieving exceptional results for our clients – across the UAE, Middle East, United Kingdom, Europe and USA.

Our vision

We aspire to be the world’s most sought after communications agency, inspiring moments of brilliance and happiness through our exceptional services and actions; a collective of creatives and communicators who we encourage and nurture in both mind and body; adding unparalleled value to our clients and making a real difference in the world.

Benefits

• Qcademy offers you the opportunity to learn and grow with us. We pride ourselves on our teams’ personal and professional development.
• We promise to give you all the tools you need in a great workspace so you can focus on being the best version of you.

We believe that our people are our greatest achievement and know our team is our greatest asset.

• We regularly show our appreciation to our people and celebrate their achievements.

Our people enjoy coming into work and spending time with each other.

• We offer flexibility to help our people get the balance right between life in and outside of work.
• We are a team of professionals who know what it takes to get the job done.
• But we also know how and when to have fun.

We embrace diversity and inclusion. Our team is proudly made up of people from across the globe and we see this as one of our greatest strengths.

• With international offices and a global client portfolio Q Communications continues to grow and you can be part of the journey.

We deliver campaigns for our clients that impact their business and your friends will be talking about at the water cooler.

• We care about the community we live in and are passionate about giving back. Through our Q Cares program we show our support for causes that we’re passionate about.

Job Description

• Produce, create and curate image and video content on a daily basis.
• Work with account teams to brainstorm content ideas.
• Ideate, coordinate and film live videos for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat.
• Ideate, coordinate and film Instagram stories.
• Film, edit and create short video content for all social media channels and video press releases.
• Photograph and edit images for company and client including launch parties, client sponsored events and all branding, PR images for media use, website imagery.
• Ideate, shoot and edit day-to-day content in the form of photos, graphics, videos and GIFs primarily for social media channels.
• Analyze performance of social media content, including video, to help guide direction of future content.
• Work with account teams to ensure all content is created with social media best practices and specifications.
• Work with account teams to create social media content to compliment company and client initiatives and campaigns.
• Create promotion templates for digital filters and other required templates for digital platforms.
• Design images and layouts for social media profiles.
• Stay up to date on features, innovations and content capabilities of social media sites and trends in social media and digital content, focusing on AI.
• Research best in class content creation across big brands.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues towards smooth project delivery across teams.
• Engage in Qcademy and other learning & development opportunities, to enhance skills.
• Stay across market trends and developments to help Q and our clients stay at the forefront of our industry in the region.

Key Competencies

• Creativity and Imagination – A good photographer must be able to look at something ordinary or extraordinary and find many ways to interpret and convey through beautiful and meaningful photos.
• An eye for detail – A good photographer must have a very keen eye for detail to ensure all elements within the photo work harmoniously to convey the right vision or message.
• Patience – No matter how much you try to control every variable, things just won’t go your way at times.
• Flexibility – In addition to patience, you also need to be flexible to make the best of undesirable conditions.
• Good people skills – A professional photographer works with people, requiring networking and effective communication.
• Passion – Passion makes the photographer shine through and work a bit harder, push a bit farther, and strive to be better than before.

Experience

• Minimum 3 years local experience, additional creative background experience will be beneficial.
• Demonstrated knowledge of photography/videography within the digital domain.
• Advanced technical and photographic skills.
• Proficient in using a range of programs including all Adobe Creative Suite programs & relevant design programs.
• Capacity to work independently with minimal direction.
• Excellent organizational skills including the ability to manage competing priorities and a busy schedule.
• High levels of resilience in dealing with client requests and competing priorities.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Demonstrated professionalism including being punctual, well presented, responsive and reliable.
• A strong desire to learn and develop professionally.
• A commitment to stay across industry development and trends.