Brand Designer (AR Speaker)

M+C Saatchi is building the agency model of the future. At the heart of this transformation is M+C Saatchi Consulting — our global engine that unites Consulting, Experience, Data and Brand into one culturally powered growth platform. We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic Arabic speaking Brand Designer with a strong background in brand to join our team. You’ll report into the Regional Consulting Director as well as our Global Brand Creative Director, helping to build, nurture, and grow long-term partnerships with our key clients. You’ll act as a trusted advisor, understanding clients’ business challenges, anticipating needs, and translating those into distinctive brand systems, identities, experiences and solutions. 

BRAND DESIGNER (6+ YEARS)

As a Brand Designer, you will create brand identities and design systems that connect with culture, customers and colleagues. You will translate strategic intent into distinctive, high-quality design across touchpoints, partnering closely with strategy and client teams. A flair for Arabic typography and localizing global brand strategies into regional-first brand systems and identities. You will play‌ ‌ an‌ ‌ active‌ ‌ role‌ ‌ in‌ ‌ shaping‌ ‌ holistic‌ ‌ brands‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ our‌ ‌ clients‌ ‌ by‌ ‌ understanding‌ ‌ how‌ ‌ strategy,‌ ‌ visual,‌ ‌ verbal and‌ ‌ experience‌ ‌ design‌ ‌ elements‌ ‌ work‌ ‌ together.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will contribute across a range of accounts and projects, leading the development and execution of identities, design systems and integrated expressions.

You will collaborate with strategists, creatives and account teams to ensure design decisions stay on-brief and on-brand from concept through delivery.

This role is based in our Dubai office (hybrid: 4 days in office, Friday WFH) and is suited to someone with 6+ years experience in brand design and identity systems.

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design Craft & Execution

·      Create and evolve visual identities, design systems and toolkits that scale across channels.

·      Develop concepts, layouts and design assets with a high bar for craft and consistency.

·      Ensure design work is on-brief, on-brand and production-ready.

Collaboration

·      Work closely with strategists and creative partners to translate insight into compelling visual ideas.

·      Collaborate with account and client teams to align design decisions to objectives and stakeholder expectations.

·      Partner with production and delivery teams to ensure feasibility and quality in execution.

Growth & Leadership

·      Contribute to critiques and craft culture, sharing best practice and elevating team output.

·      Support mentoring of junior designers through feedback and example.

·      Proactively‌ ‌ grow‌ ‌ your‌ ‌ capabilities‌ ‌ by‌ ‌ exploring‌ ‌ how‌ ‌ diverse‌ ‌ creative‌ ‌ techniques‌, technology, AI ‌ and‌ ‌ platforms‌ ‌ may enhance‌ ‌ our‌ ‌ work.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

6+ years experience in brand design with a strong portfolio across identity and multi-channel applications (preference for local speakers).

Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma

High taste level, strong typography and layout skills, and attention to detail.

Ability to connect design decisions to strategy and communicate rationale clearly.

A collaborative mindset and comfort working in multidisciplinary teams.

Passion for creating world-class brands.

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: 4 days in office and Friday WFH, plus 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 OUR LOCAL OFFICE

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 our team with our Dubai office in 2016 and then our Riyadh office in 2023. From these offices we manage a number of local and global brands across the Middle East and Europe. 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. Our global operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.

 OUR AMBITION

At M+C Saatchi Group, our ambition is to create and curate Cultural Power for our clients. We do this by connecting specialist expertise, powered by creativity, data and technology, to help build famous brands and solve the most complex business and societal challenges.