Designer

DESIGNER

We have a new and exciting opportunity in for a Designer to join our Design department in Dubai. You'll have the ability to craft ideas to life and want to create the best work of your career.

Location - Dubai

About the Role

We want our creative teams to make the best work of their career. You will work closely with a senior art director and copywriter team; being involved in briefs from the beginning. You will play a vital role in bringing new real estate developments to life, by crafting brand identities and themes, as well as helping to create initial visualizations of new developments through AI.

Below is a snapshot of what you’ll do:

• Bring new fresh ideas in the design and branding space
• Show versatility/interest across different media and channels and be able to craft best in class work for each, including: Print, online, social media, physical and environmental design.
• Be able to create design work and identities for brands and advertising campaigns and expand on those ideas to create a complete set of ownable graphic assets.
• Extensive knowledge in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, In Design, Keynote etc.
• Any additional experience in other programmes/apps is useful but not essential. (Basic animation, video editing etc.)

About You:

You are ready to step into a new role, with headroom and opportunity; ambitious to make the best work of your career.

You bring (required):

• Bring innovative ideas that challenge the norm
• Share insights and design trends with the wider team to help inspire
• Work to increase design and branding knowledge-base within the agency
• Strong strategic understanding – ideas should align with strategy and audience insights
• Seek to identify and progress creative opportunities with ideas that not only complement, but push, the concept forward
• Ability to create ideas based on strong insights.
• A real ambition to bring ideas to life through design
• Showcase ability to take direction on board and harness it to bring ideas to life.
• Have a point of view on the latest trends in branding and design
• Be willing to help out on projects that other team members are working on, even if it’s just sharing a second set of ‘design’ eyes
• Promote our agency spirit and values
• Understand how to work within creative briefs and timings
• Spot proactive opportunities
• Work as part of the wider creative department and support colleagues to elevate ideas through design
• Report into the Head of Design and support to elevate the design and branding work within the agency

As a bonus, you bring:

• Regional GCC experience
• Recent award wins at regional or global award shows.
• Examples of change-making work Real Estate clients.

You are:

• Portfolio that demonstrates strong design skills—specifically with branding
• Some experience with luxury brands
• With strong conceptual ability and lots of branding experience
• Experience with creating AI imagery
• A team player, persuasive negotiator, positive and innovative thinker.

What We Offer

For the right team member, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes;

• Great holidays: 23 days annual holiday, plus birthday day off.
• Great flexibility: 10 days of working from anywhere in the world.
• Great benefits: private healthcare plan and perks.
• Great professional development: a mentoring progamme at global level and generous training budgets to support your career pathway, and
• Great fun: a blended working culture and celebration days to socialise, bond and learn together.

About Us

We were born out of the need for strategic and brutally effective creativity in the region. With every successful campaign, we have grown, and cherry-picked the best professionals to work with us from all over the region and the world. In 2012, we opened our Abu Dhabi office and expanded the team with our Dubai office in 2016. From these offices we manage a number of local and global brands in Europe, GCC and of course the UAE. Brutal Simplicity of Thought is the creative philosophy of M&C Saatchi. It defines the way we work and the work we produce. We believe: "It’s easier to complicate than simplify. Simple ideas enter the brain quicker and stay there longer. Brutal Simplicity of Thought is therefore a painful necessity."

About M&C Saatchi Group

M&C Saatchi Group is a creative federation of companies who navigate, create, and lead meaningful change for clients across five specialist divisions connected through people, culture, data, technology and creativity, M&C Saatchi Group aims to unlock new value for clients and leave a positive impact on the world.

M&C Saatchi Group’s work is informed by two core principles - Brutal Simplicity of Thought and Diversity of Thought. Together they guide how problems are solved and integrated specialist teams are built. Headquartered in London, M&C Saatchi Group have circa 2,500 employees globally of which 720 employees are UK based. Our operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.