Senior Designer

Our client is seeking a Senior Designer to join a specialist design team within an international strategic communications consultancy. Based in the Dubai office, the position would suit a Senior Designer looking to lead the design direction across the company.

The successful candidate will have excellent literacy and communication skills and have experience working across brand, digital and UX/UI design. Experience of Adobe’s Creative Suite.

Clients

• Work with governmental institutions in the region, specially in Saudi Arabia, that require design support for their communications: key visuals, Out Of Home campaigns, posters, brochures, reports, social media assets, etc.
• Lead and/or contribute to brand design work for existing clients and new business proposals that require branding.
• Act as brand guardian, including the look and feel of The clients owned channels: website, social media, etc.
• Ensure best practice is adhered and outputs are of the highest quality at all times.
• Design and produce marketing communications, including overall large documents, high-end PowerPoint presentations, template creation from concept to completion (print & digital).
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments and tools.

Business Development and Growth

• Support the Design Director with workload for different clients.
• Support client teams with ideas, campaign visualisation and production of relevant graphic assets across channels.
• Manage network of supplier agencies and freelancers to deliver supporting content.
• Push the boundaries on creativity across the company.

Team Development:

• Review junior, midweight and freelance designers’ work to ensure high quality.
• Client facing when required, should be able to fluently and convincingly articulate design rationales and proposals

Required Skills

• Updated portfolio with brand design and digital work for global brands, both government and non-government.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• 10+ years of experience in an in-house creative department or design agency
• Strong creative side – possess strong conceptual skills, high level sense of design, layout and typography and up to date knowledge of digital trends
• Expert knowledge of Adobe creative suite and applied use (you must be hands on)
• Strong organisational, problem solving & time-management skills.
• Vigilant in ensuring that design is consistent across product set and platform
• Work well with tight deadlines in a team environment
• Apple Mac and Office Mac proficient
• Excellent PowerPoint, Word and Excel skills.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Arabic language – or demonstrated experience in the region that shows understanding of the application of Arabic in layouts and print design.
• Understanding of UX
• Brand expertise
• Experience in digital design – motion graphic, gifs, banners etc. (No mandatory, but good to have).
• Good connections in region (suppliers, potential studio partners, etc.)

Attributes

• Leadership – the ability to develop relationships of influence with clients and staff alike
• Teamwork – as part of a team, the candidate should be a strong contributor, flexible and adaptable to different business and project conditions.
• Resilience and stamina – the ability to develop solutions under difficult circumstances and maintain a productive pace and outlook.
• Curiosity and a sense of adventure- we love people who naturally want to know more about the world and are happy to not always have all the answers but can help figurethem out.
• Ambition and humility- we want people who are hungry to grow, but not at the cost of others. Being able to take people on a journey is a key part of being able to work and lead at CSM.

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.