# Senior Art Director (3 Months contract)

> Experts Plus Recruitment Services · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Contract · Posted 2026-06-01

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Events

## Description

We are seeking an innovative and strategic Creative Director to lead the development of compelling brand narratives, integrated campaigns, and experience-led concepts across a diverse portfolio of projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for shaping the overall creative vision, ensuring all creative outputs are strategically grounded, visually distinctive, and experientially impactful.

## Requirements

### Creative Leadership & Strategy

-   Define and champion the overall creative vision, standards, and philosophy across all projects and initiatives.
-   Develop innovative creative concepts, campaign platforms, and brand experiences that drive audience engagement and business impact.
-   Translate strategic objectives into compelling creative solutions across multiple channels and touchpoints.
-   Lead the development of integrated brand narratives, storytelling frameworks, and communication concepts.

### Business Development Support

-   Contribute to business growth through creative input for pitches, proposals, presentations, and client engagement activities.
-   Develop differentiated creative approaches that enhance project competitiveness and market positioning.
-   Identify opportunities to expand creative scope across branding, content, digital, experiential, and spatial design solutions.
-   Support the creation of persuasive presentation materials and strategic creative recommendations.

### Creative Operations Management

-   Direct end-to-end creative development across campaigns, brand identities, event concepts, content ecosystems, and experiential environments.
-   Lead cross-functional collaboration between designers, copywriters, strategists, production teams, and external partners.
-   Ensure creative outputs meet the highest standards of quality, innovation, and effectiveness.
-   Oversee creative workflows, reviews, approvals, and project timelines to ensure successful delivery.

### Brand Governance & Quality Assurance

-   Ensure all creative work aligns with brand guidelines, communication objectives, and organizational standards.
-   Maintain consistency across visual identity systems, messaging frameworks, and experiential design elements.
-   Implement quality assurance processes to safeguard brand integrity and creative excellence.
-   Review and approve creative deliverables before final presentation or implementation.

### Team Leadership & Development

-   Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to creative teams.
-   Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
-   Support talent development through coaching, constructive feedback, and performance management.
-   Encourage experimentation and adoption of emerging creative trends, technologies, and methodologies.

### Additional Responsibilities

-   Handle confidential information with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment.
-   Support major project launches, live events, and key organizational initiatives as required.
-   Work collaboratively with senior stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams to achieve project objectives.
-   Be available to support critical project phases and event delivery periods, including occasional extended working hours.

### Experience

-   Minimum 8 years of experience in creative leadership roles within creative agencies, branding agencies, integrated communications firms, experiential agencies, or related environments.
-   Proven experience leading integrated campaigns, brand development projects, and large-scale creative initiatives.
-   Experience working on events, exhibitions, conferences, experiential marketing, or immersive brand environments is highly desirable.

### Skills & Competencies

-   Exceptional conceptual thinking and creative storytelling abilities.
-   Strong experience in integrated brand and campaign development.
-   Deep understanding of experiential marketing, spatial design, and brand environments.
-   Ability to translate strategic insights into compelling creative concepts.
-   Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
-   Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management capabilities.
-   High attention to detail and commitment to creative excellence.

## Apply

[Apply at Experts Plus Recruitment Services](https://apply.workable.com/experts-plus/j/A1A50840DB/apply)

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