Saatchi & Saatchi ME
Senior Designer
Saatchi & Saatchi MEUnited Arab Emirates17 hours ago
Full-timeAdvertising, Design +1

Overview

The Senior Designer - Design is responsible for leading the creative work. We are looking for a creative, innovative Design-based talent to join our team with focus on brand identities and guidelines. The responsibilities of the Senior Designer - Design include interpreting client briefs and turning them into creative solutions, delivering high-quality brand design output, working with the design teams, and troubleshooting design problems.

To be a successful Senior Designer - Design, you should be able to adhere to tight deadlines and manage budget constraints to deliver a great product and experience. Ultimately, a top-notch design person should have strong communication and analytical skills.


Responsibilities

Technical & Product

• Work closely with the insights and strategy team to develop breakthrough, creative ideas and articulate the ideas in the creative brief

• Coordinate with multi-skilled teams of designers, strategists, researchers, and production specialists including initial briefings, day-to-day direction, storyboarding, creative review meetings

• Lead creative presentations and orchestrate other team members to present the work

• Monitor and circulate the latest design-related trends information

• Capture and document project case studies

• Contribute proactively to business development efforts, existing client opportunities, proposal writing and presentations

• Strategic thinker and understanding of branding processes and brand identity design

• High ability to lead and execute branding processes from conceptualization to execution to final guidelines implementation


Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency

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.


Innovative & Analytical Mindset

• Ideate, craft, and execute original and iconic design 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


Qualifications

  • 5+ years of work experience and a book brimming with brave ideas and outstanding craft, some that saw the light of day, and maybe some that didn’t
  • strong history in branding, brand identity design and establishing guidelines

Key Skills

Ranked by relevance