Senior Creative Director - Contract

Job description

Overview:

We are looking for an experienced and highly conceptual Senior Creative Director to lead the creative vision and output across major integrated campaigns, brand platforms, strategic initiatives, and high-profile events.

The Senior Creative Director will translate complex strategic and institutional narratives into powerful, contemporary, and internationally relevant creative work. The role will lead multidisciplinary creative development across brand, film, digital, social, experiential, events, and presentations, while maintaining consistently high creative standards across all outputs.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Own and lead the overall creative vision and direction across integrated campaigns, brands, programmes, and events.
• Translate strategic positioning, messaging, and client briefs into strong creative concepts, campaign platforms, and visual narratives.
• Develop and oversee key visuals, campaign identities, sub-brand identities, and creative systems.
• Lead creative development for major campaigns, activations, branded experiences, and strategic initiatives.
• Conceptualise and oversee hero films, campaign films, documentary content, launch films, social content, and other video assets, including treatments and storyboards.
• Provide creative direction to production companies, directors, photographers, designers, and other external creative partners.
• Lead and mentor Art Directors and Designers, ensuring consistently high standards.
• Review and approve creative output before presentation to senior management or clients.
• Work closely with Strategy and Communications teams to ensure creative execution is rooted in the strategic narrative.
• Oversee creative development of high-level leadership and stakeholder presentations, ensuring they are visually sophisticated, clear, and compelling.
• Create strong visual storytelling and information hierarchy for complex strategic presentations, proposals, and executive-level materials.
• Ensure consistency across Arabic and English creative, working with specialist teams where required.
• Develop creative solutions across digital, social, OOH/DOOH, print, experiential, events, stage content, environmental branding, and presentations.
• Work with Event and Production teams to ensure brand and creative narratives translate effectively into physical experiences.
• Manage multiple creative workstreams simultaneously within fast-moving and compressed timelines.
• Present and confidently articulate creative concepts and rationale to senior internal stakeholders and clients.
• Maintain rigorous quality control across all creative deliverables and ensure consistency with approved brand guidelines and strategic positioning.

Job Specifications:

• Minimum 10+ years experience within leading creative, branding, advertising, communications, or integrated agencies.
• Significant experience at Creative Director or Senior/Associate Creative Director level.
• Strong portfolio across campaign concepts, brand development, film/video, experiential/event creative, digital/social, and high-level presentation design.
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Advertising, Creative Arts, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent senior-level professional experience and an exceptional portfolio will also be considered.
• Strong strategic and conceptual thinking.
• Proven creative leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Strong judgement and attention to detail.
• Ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong experience in integrated campaign concept development, brand identity and creative systems, art direction, and design craft.
• Experience with film/video treatments and storyboarding.
• Experience across digital, social, OOH/DOOH, print, and experiential creative.
• Strong executive presentation and visual storytelling capabilities.
• Arabic/English creative awareness.
• Experience directing production partners and multidisciplinary teams.
• UAE/GCC and government or high-profile institutional experience is highly desirable.