Art Director
Role Overview
Art Director joining a growing creative team at a holding company building capabilities across a portfolio of brands, businesses, and projects.
Develop visually compelling creative across brands, campaigns, and platforms, from concept through execution.
Hands-on role combining ideas, design, and visual storytelling with collaboration across creative, marketing, content, and production teams.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Art Director joining a growing creative team at a holding company building capabilities across a portfolio of brands, businesses, and projects.
Develop visually compelling creative across brands, campaigns, and platforms, from concept through execution.
Hands-on role combining ideas, design, and visual storytelling with collaboration across creative, marketing, content, and production teams.
Key responsibilities
- Lead visual concepts for integrated campaigns, digital, social, brand, content, events, and experiential projects; translate briefs into distinctive executions.
- Own art direction through final delivery and maintain visual identities across brands and business areas.
- Develop campaign key visuals, layouts, storyboards, moodboards, presentations, and creative guidelines.
- Art direct photography, film, video, CGI, motion, and other production; collaborate with internal teams and external partners.
- Present concepts to stakeholders and maintain high visual and conceptual standards.
- Mentor junior creatives; manage multiple projects, quality, details, and deadlines.
- Track emerging creative trends and use AI and other technologies to support ideation, visual development, and production.
- Contribute to pitches, new business opportunities, and group creative initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 6 years in an advertising, creative, integrated agency, in-house creative studio, or similar environment.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating art direction, conceptual thinking, visual design, originality, and a clear point of view.
- Experience across multiple channels and taking ideas from brief to final execution.
- Strong understanding of branding, typography, composition, layout, photography, and visual storytelling.
- Strong presentation and communication skills; experience with photographers, videographers, production teams, and external creative partners.
- Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Understanding of AI-powered creative tools is expected; motion, digital, social, or experiential experience is highly desirable.
- UAE/GCC experience is advantageous.
Ideal candidate
- Creatively ambitious and visually focused, with a conceptual mindset and a hands-on approach.
- Able to challenge briefs and bring personality, originality, and a strong point of view to the work.
Location
- Description specifies Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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