Description 

Media.Monks is looking for a talented Senior Art Director to join our Dubai office and craft digital content, campaigns, and assets for amazing brands across the Middle East. 

MediaMonks is looking for a super talented Art Director to take the lead in thinking up digital ads and assets for awesome brands. The position is all about harmonizing speed, style and scale to produce loads of good-looking assets at a steady pace.

Role & Responsibilities

• You’ll create style proposals, sketches, mockups and prototypes to kickstart the design for products, features and new campaigns.
• Working for the world’s most beloved brands, you’ll make sure designs are awesome and in line with expectations.
• You’ll look after the execution of the art direction and help to improve the work by offering new angles, inspiration, best practices and practical solutions.
• You’ll help translate creative/client briefs into thorough design briefs.
• Pixel perfectness is important, so you’ll safeguard quality at all times.
• Working alongside the Creative Director and the team, you’ll make sure our designs and processes are in line with the client’s objectives and expectations.

Requirements

• You’re a technically skilled designer with 5+ years of high-level experience as senior/lead designer or art director crafting digital ads and assets.
• As showcased in your portfolio, your Photoshop and Figma skills are super slick.
• You’ll need to have strong English communication skills for working with clients and colleagues around the world.

• You have experience with all stages of the design process, from conceptualising styles, creating storyboards to finalising layouts and rolling out designs across markets and in various formats.
• Creating balanced and beautiful layouts is second nature to you.
• You also know a thing or two about templating and process optimisations.
• With an understanding of fundamentals such as typography, interaction design, film and animation production, flow and storytelling, you can get teams to improve the work on both an aesthetic and functional level.
• You know how to sell designs to colleagues and clients alike, and ideally have some experience doing client presentations.

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About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is the purely digital operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 8,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels: we maintain a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-22), regular recognition at Cannes Lions, inclusion in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players (2020-23), the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-23), a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023. Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth.

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Disclaimer: 

• Responsible for resourcing and implementing security controls for your teams processes and systems
• Responsible that all your personnel apply information security in accordance with the established information security policy