Senior Digital Creative

Job description / Role

As a Senior Digital Creative, you will be responsible for digital creative direction and the management of the digital design team. You will play a critical role in establishing and maintaining a consistent visual style for our clients that fits within their brand guidelines, personality and voice. The Digital Creative leads & inspires the digital visual design team to work in a collaborative and strategic manner. You also foster relationships with existing clients and lead the digital creative component of new business acquisition.

Requirements

- BA in Fine Arts/Design preferred or equivalent life experience
- Agency/Brand experience
- Minimum 5 years experience
- Award-winning work/hungry for awards
- Highly ambitious, driven and switched on about their work
- Strong digital and integrated thinking
- Genuine copy skills, beyond just headlines and short body copy
- Fresh art direction that understands brand guidelines but shows individual flair
- Curious about new technology and Innovation
- Ability to think beyond the specific and immediate requirement of a creative brief
- Ability to lead a team of juniors and seniors
- Arabic speaking
- General understanding of HTML and JavaScript
- Strong understanding of CSS and its capabilities
- Ability to converse on a basic programming level with web developers about design and development strategies
- Up to date with current trends in web design
- Experience in designing for Desktop as well as Mobile web sites
- Knowledge of responsive design to handle the many types of users accessing a web site (desktop/mobile/tablet)Experience designing within the boundaries of Facebook applications and pages.
- Working knowledge of customizing WordPress themes
- Create presentation boards and color layouts for client presentations
- Advertising/promotional marketing agency experience preferred
- Create complicated layouts in Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign
- Ability to think conceptually and develop creative solutions
- Understand the concept and effectively communicates the idea through design
- Create both pencil and electronic layouts from the direction given by either the senior creative staff or from the creative request form
- Must be able to execute from storyboard to final layout against timelines
- Understand design tools and formal design training
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Understands production, and has creative flair

About the Company

Kingston Stanley is the leading specialist marketing recruitment agency in the Middle East, working exclusively with clients and candidates across the full spectrum of the marketing sector since early 2011. We will help you find, screen and select the ideal candidate for your marketing jobs, and we have the largest, most current and qualified network of suitable candidates, ready to start immediately. Whether you have a role that urgently needs to be filled, or a killer portfolio, you’ll find what you’re looking for here. Strong ethics, honest hard work, integrity and marketing recruitment are the four pillars of our business and brand.