Creative Director

Overview

Role Overview

Creative Strategy and Brand Leadership

• Lead the development of integrated creative strategies, brand narratives, and campaign concepts that align with client objectives, consumer insights, and market opportunities across digital, social, content, experiential, and traditional channels.
• Ensure all creative outputs maintain a consistent brand voice, visual identity, and messaging framework while delivering measurable engagement and brand impact.
• Translate business objectives, audience insights, and market trends into innovative creative solutions that strengthen brand positioning and audience connection.

Creative Excellence & Client Partnership

• Lead the ideation, development, and execution of multi-channel campaigns, ensuring high standards of creativity, quality, and effectiveness across all deliverables.
• Serve as the senior creative lead for client accounts, confidently presenting concepts, creative rationale, and strategic recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with strategy, communications, media, and digital teams to deliver integrated campaigns that support client growth and business objectives.

Team Leadership & Innovation

• Build, mentor, and inspire multidisciplinary creative teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee creative workflows, production timelines, and project delivery to ensure efficient execution and high-quality outputs across multiple brands and projects.
• Stay ahead of consumer trends, cultural movements, emerging platforms, and creative technologies, leveraging insights and innovation to continuously enhance creative performance and agency capabilities.

Experience

• 8–10 years of experience in creative, branding, advertising, content, or design roles, preferably within an agency or multidisciplinary marketing environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing campaigns for brands within the UAE and GCC markets.
• Proven ability to manage and execute the brand and visual vision across multiple brands and projects simultaneously.
• Experience leading projects from concept development through final execution across multiple marketing channels.

Creative Leadership and Capabilities

• Strong portfolio showcasing impactful brand campaigns, creative storytelling, and integrated marketing work across digital, social, content, and experiential platforms.
• Strong creative vision combined with commercial awareness and an understanding of business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop creative teams while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Technical & Communication Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and modern creative production workflows.
• Strong presentation, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to confidently present creative concepts and recommendations to clients and senior leadership.
• Fluent in written and spoken English; Arabic language skills are advantageous but not required.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Advertising, Marketing, Communications, Fine Arts, or a related field is required.
• A master’s degree or additional certifications in creative leadership, branding, marketing strategy, design management, or integrated communications would be considered an advantage, but is not mandatory.