Art Director (Freelancer)
Saatchi & Saatchi MEA
Date: 10 hours ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time

Company Description
Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company with 114 offices in 67 countries and over 6500 employees. Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group We are a full service, integrated communications network and we work with 6 of the top 10 and over half of the top 50 global advertisers. We’re in the business of getting people to fall in love with our clients’ products and services. We have an unshakeable spirit and unbeatable attitude that Nothing is Impossible, a concept we apply to all our clients and work. We believe in effecting positive change through creativity, always. While we seek out the most brilliant minds to help us on our quest, we’re also passionate about nurturing the best talent from within. Which is why when you join us, your journey can be one of continuous evolution.
Overview
The role is for someone who is a solid designer, one with a unique design eye, highly skilled with photo manipulation and compositing to conceptualize and craft unexpected visual approaches. This position requires someone to create visual solutions that convince clients, prospects, talent, and the marketplace to engage with our brand.
Develop creative ideas that meet both our client's objectives as well as our business objectives, maintaining the company’s expected levels of creative excellence and professionalism
Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
Create and design visuals across a wide range of on and offline channels
Responsibilities
Main Tasks
Technical & Product
R-2387P-2677
Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company with 114 offices in 67 countries and over 6500 employees. Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group We are a full service, integrated communications network and we work with 6 of the top 10 and over half of the top 50 global advertisers. We’re in the business of getting people to fall in love with our clients’ products and services. We have an unshakeable spirit and unbeatable attitude that Nothing is Impossible, a concept we apply to all our clients and work. We believe in effecting positive change through creativity, always. While we seek out the most brilliant minds to help us on our quest, we’re also passionate about nurturing the best talent from within. Which is why when you join us, your journey can be one of continuous evolution.
Overview
The role is for someone who is a solid designer, one with a unique design eye, highly skilled with photo manipulation and compositing to conceptualize and craft unexpected visual approaches. This position requires someone to create visual solutions that convince clients, prospects, talent, and the marketplace to engage with our brand.
Develop creative ideas that meet both our client's objectives as well as our business objectives, maintaining the company’s expected levels of creative excellence and professionalism
Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
Create and design visuals across a wide range of on and offline channels
Responsibilities
Main Tasks
Technical & Product
- Has strong technical design skills across a variety of programs.
- Understands the “best in class” use of each platform. Knows what it means to be making something interesting, engaging, and creative in the world today.
- Ability to concept innovative ideas and tactics that people will talk about. Always envisioning the potential outcomes of each idea
- Create and design visuals across a wide range of on and offline channels
- Create in-brand layouts and experiences by applying graphic design principles such as colour, typography, the photographic selection that create a compelling and visually attractive story for audiences
- Naturally well organized and unfazed when working towards deadlines
- Have a sense of teamwork, and want to be part of a group of colleagues who take care of themselves, value themselves, and respect each other.
- Ease to express creative ideas clearly and concisely.
- Understand communication as an integrated “whole” and not as something on / off.
- Adobe CC domain and web design and adobe premiere knowledge for the assembly of audiovisual models.
- Any level of Motion graphic skills.
- Demonstrable experience creating and designing offline and online campaigns.
- High level of involvement, commitment, and responsibility.
- Knowledge of interactive exteriors, websites, e-mailings, landings, campaigns on RRSS Instagram, Facebook, etc.
- Ideate, craft, and execute original and iconic creative concepts in response to client briefs, objectives, or goals
- Is responsible for the proper placement, context, and meaning of every image and graphic element within a creative assignment
- Develop creative ideas that meet both our client's objectives as well as our business objectives, maintaining the company’s expected levels of creative excellence and professionalism
- Present, share and review creative work with Executive Creative Director/s, Account Management and Planning Leads as well as members of the Management Team
- Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
- Collaborate effectively with Account Management, Planning, and the broader creative team to develop disruptive and iconic work
- 5+ years of agency experience with primarily an Art background, including a book briming with brave ideas and outstanding craft
- You’re an artist. Every surface, every channel, every medium, social or otherwise, is your canvas. You’re just where people are
- Strong grasp of social media space and online media jargon and technology
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment
- Ability to effectively and appropriately interact with co-workers at a variety of levels, across many disciplines
R-2387P-2677
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