Creative Director
Skills
About This Role
Overview
- Brand designer and creative
- *Multidisciplinary · Brand-Led · AI-Integrated*
- **Location:** Dubai, Al Quoz 3 \| **Type:** Full-time \| **Reports to:** Founder & Creative Director \| **Experience:** 8+ years
- The role
- Capital D Studio is a boutique hybrid creative communications agency and production house — established in 2008 and built on the conviction that a brand is an operating system, not an aesthetic.
- We work with clients in luxury, e-commerce, and high-growth verticals, where creative precision and strategic clarity are non-negotiable.
- We are looking for a Creative Director who is as fluent in brand strategy as they are in Figma — and who brings genuine curiosity about how AI tools are reshaping creative workflows.
- This is a hands-on leadership role.
- You will conceive, direct, and quality-control across brand, campaign, content, and production work simultaneously.
- This is not a title role.
- You will be expected to think, make, lead, and evolve — often in the same week.
- What you will own
- Manage the creative vision across CDS client engagements — from brand identity to campaign to content systems
- Translate brand strategy briefs into visual and verbal identity work that is distinctive, coherent, and market-ready
- Direct and mentor a small, multidisciplinary creative team across design, copywriting, and production
- Oversee quality control at every stage: concept, production, and delivery
- Develop and pressure-test brand guidelines, design systems, and creative frameworks
- Collaborate directly with the Founder on new business pitches and strategic creative proposals
- Champion AI workflow integration within the creative process — identifying where tools accelerate without compromising craft
- Contribute to CDS's internal creative standards, IP, and methodology documentation
- What we are looking for
Core
- 5+ years in brand, design, or creative direction — agency or hybrid studio preferred
- Strong foundational background in graphic design with demonstrable craft in typography, composition, and visual identity
- Proven experience leading brand identity projects from strategy through execution
- Comfortable operating across verticals — luxury, retail, lifestyle, digital-native brands
- Exceptional creative judgment — you know when something is good and why
- Articulate and confident presenting and defending creative decisions to clients
- Design & production
- Expert-level proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign as baseline)
- Confident working in Figma across both UI/UX and brand identity applications
- Working knowledge of motion, video, and content production pipelines
- Experience building and documenting scalable design systems and brand guidelines
- AI fluency
- Active, informed user of AI tools in a creative workflow context — Midjourney, Runway, Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT/Claude, or equivalent
- Understands where AI accelerates production and where it dilutes brand integrity — and holds the line accordingly
- Able to develop and implement prompt workflows that support consistent brand output at scale
- Genuinely curious about the evolving AI creative stack — not resistant, not uncritical
- Leadership & collaboration
- Experience managing or mentoring creative talent in an agency or studio environment
- Strong written communication skills — brief writing, creative rationale, and client presentation
- High tolerance for ambiguity and a structured approach to managing creative complexity
- Operates with ownership mentality — you do not need to be managed
- Nice to have
- Experience working with luxury or premium brands in a GCC or MENA context
- Exposure to e-commerce creative — product photography direction, digital campaign production
- Basic video editing or motion design capability (After Effects, Premiere)
- Familiarity with ClickUp, Notion, or structured project management tools
- Arabic language skills (not required)
- Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dubai
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