Design Director

🏢 mc saatchi uk
📍 United Arab EmiratesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: Yesterday🔄 Updated: Yesterday
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We are seeking an exceptional Design Director to lead the creation of strategically driven, world-class brand identities and visual campaigns. This role demands a conceptual thinker who can see the bigger picture, challenge conventions, and consistently push creative work into award-winning territory. You will be responsible for developing distinctive brand worlds that are strategically grounded, visually exceptional, and commercially effective. Key requirements include outstanding branding and visual identity experience, the ability to create thoughtful, high-level brand systems aligned with business objectives, and advanced AI capabilities (Midjourney, Krea) for creating distinctive imagery. Strong art direction skills, expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Keynote, and proven experience leading and mentoring designers are essential. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, exceptional design craft, and AI to create work that defines brands, influences culture, and sets new creative benchmarks.
Required Skills
Business, Sales & Management
Branding
Engineering, Construction & Trades
CAPA
Other
KreaPresentation DesignkeynoteMidjourneyvisual identityvisual mood directions
Design, Content & Media
Adobe IllustratorColor TheoryCreative DirectionGraphic DesignAdobe InDesignPhotographyAdobe PhotoshopTypographyAdobe Suite
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Storytelling
Requirements
The ideal candidate will be a highly strategic designer with outstanding branding and visual identity experience, capable of creating thoughtful, high-level brand systems aligned with business objectives. Strong art direction skills, advanced AI capabilities (Midjourney, Krea), expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Keynote, and proven experience leading and mentoring designers are essential. The role requires a conceptual thinker who can push creative work into award-winning territory by developing compelling visual mood directions and brand worlds.
Description
We're looking for an exceptional Design Director to lead the creation of strategically driven, world-class brand identities and visual campaigns.This is a role for someone who thinks beyond execution, someone who can see the bigger picture, challenge convention, and consistently push creative work into award-winning territory. You'll be responsible for developing distinctive brand worlds that are strategically grounded, visually exceptional, and commercially effective.What we're looking forA highly strategic designer with outstanding branding and visual identity experience.The ability to create thoughtful, high-level brand systems that align with business objectives and campaign strategies.A conceptual thinker who brings ambitious ideas to every project and proactively elevates creative quality.A deep understanding of design, advertising, fashion, architecture, culture and emerging visual trends, ensuring work feels relevant, contemporary and future-focused.Strong art direction skills, with an exceptional eye for photography, composition, colour, typography and visual storytelling.The ability to develop compelling visual mood directions that define the creative vision for brands and campaigns.Advanced AI capabilities, with expert knowledge of Midjourney and Krea to create distinctive, ownable, cinematic imagery for brands and campaigns.A strategic approach to typography, colour and visual systems that builds memorable and ownable brand worlds.Outstanding presentation design skills, with the ability to craft beautifully considered decks, mock-ups and visual narratives that bring ideas to life.Expert proficiency across Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and Keynote.Highly efficient with the ability to lead the rollout of large-scale campaigns across multiple touchpoints while maintaining exceptional craft and consistency.Proven experience leading and mentoring designers, setting direction and ensuring the highest standards of execution throughout every stage of a project.We're looking for someone who combines strategic thinking, exceptional design and visual craft, and the power of AI to create work that not only looks beautiful, but defines brands, influences culture and sets new creative benchmarks.We are looking for permanent as well as long term freelance candidates who are willing to work from office.
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