Art Director

untitled ان تايتلد; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

untitled ان تايتلد is seeking a design-driven Art Director to lead visual thinking and creative execution across brands, campaigns, and experiences. You will drive art direction, branding, and campaign development, taking ideas from direction to a fully developed visual world with distinctive identities and layouts.

You should be able to design at a high level yourself—develop visual concepts, refine typography, guide designers, build presentations, or oversee shoots for multi-channel campaigns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Art Direction, or a related creative field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in a branding agency, creative agency, design studio, or similar environment.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating brand identity, graphic design, campaign art direction, and visual systems.
• Exceptional command of typography, layout, composition, color, and visual hierarchy.
• Strong conceptual thinking with the ability to turn an idea into a complete visual language.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• High attention to detail and an uncompromising approach to visual quality.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong visual concepts and creative directions for brands, campaigns, launches, and cultural projects.
• Translate strategic and creative briefs into distinctive visual worlds.
• Establish the overall design language across typography, composition, color, imagery, graphic devices, and art direction.
• Develop key visuals and ensure they translate effectively across multiple formats and touchpoints.
• Bring a strong point of view to every project rather than simply executing a brief.
• Lead the development and evolution of brand identities and visual systems.
• Create and oversee logos, typography systems, color palettes, graphic languages, layouts, iconography, and brand applications.
• Build identities that are flexible enough to work across digital, social, print, packaging, environmental, and campaign applications.
• Develop and maintain clear brand guidelines and design principles.
• Ensure consistency without allowing the work to become repetitive or overly templated.
• Be actively involved in the design process — this is not a purely managerial role.
• Develop layouts, key visuals, identity explorations, campaign assets, presentations, and design concepts.
• Take projects from rough creative exploration through refinement and final execution.
• Demonstrate exceptional attention to typography, hierarchy, spacing, composition, and craft.
• Push work beyond the first solution and continuously refine until it reaches the required creative standard.
• Develop visual directions for integrated campaigns across digital, social, OOH, print, film, and physical environments.
• Work with creative and strategy teams to translate campaign ideas into compelling visual executions.
• Create mood boards, visual references, treatments, and art direction decks.
• Art direct photography, film, styling, set design, and other visual production where required.
• Ensure campaign assets feel connected as one creative system while adapting naturally to different channels.
• Translate creative directions into clear and executable design systems.
• Guide designers from concept through final artwork.
• Provide clear, constructive creative feedback and elevate work through multiple rounds of development.
• Collaborate with photographers, videographers, illustrators, animators, production houses, printers, fabricators, and other creative partners.
• Review final artwork, production files, edits, and applications before release.
• Act as a key quality gatekeeper across the studio's visual output.
• Maintain a consistently high standard of design and craft across projects.
• Identify when work feels generic, unresolved, inconsistent, or visually weak and provide a clear direction for improvement.
• Ensure every piece of work remains aligned with the original creative idea and brand positioning.
• Balance creative ambition with timelines, budgets, production realities, and client requirements.
• Work closely with Creative, Strategy, Content, Accounts, and Production teams.
• Mentor and guide designers while encouraging experimentation and stronger conceptual thinking.
• Present creative directions and design rationale internally and to clients.
• Confidently articulate why a visual direction works rather than relying solely on aesthetics.
• Participate in pitches, creative reviews, workshops, and client presentations.

Skills

Brand identity

Art direction

Typography

Creative direction

Education

Bachelor's in Graphic Design

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

InDesign

Job description

We are seeking adesign-driven Art Director to lead the visual thinking and creative execution across our brands, campaigns, and experiences.

This role sits at the intersection ofart direction, graphic design, branding, and campaign development. You will be responsible for taking ideas from an initial creative direction through to a fully developed visual world — building identities, campaign systems, layouts, key visuals, typography, and design applications that are distinctive, relevant, and exceptionally executed.

We are looking for someone who is not only able to direct design, but who candesign at a high level themselves. You should be equally comfortable developing a visual concept, refining typography, directing a designer, building a presentation, or overseeing a shoot.

Creative & Design Direction

We are seeking adesign-driven Art Director to lead the visual thinking and creative execution across our brands, campaigns, and experiences.

This role sits at the intersection ofart direction, graphic design, branding, and campaign development. You will be responsible for taking ideas from an initial creative direction through to a fully developed visual world — building identities, campaign systems, layouts, key visuals, typography, and design applications that are distinctive, relevant, and exceptionally executed.

We are looking for someone who is not only able to direct design, but who candesign at a high level themselves. You should be equally comfortable developing a visual concept, refining typography, directing a designer, building a presentation, or overseeing a shoot.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop strong visual concepts and creative directions for brands, campaigns, launches, and cultural projects.
• Translate strategic and creative briefs into distinctive visual worlds.
• Establish the overall design language across typography, composition, color, imagery, graphic devices, and art direction.
• Develop key visuals and ensure they translate effectively across multiple formats and touchpoints.
• Bring a strong point of view to every project rather than simply executing a brief.

Brand Identity & Visual Systems

• Lead the development and evolution of brand identities and visual systems.
• Create and oversee logos, typography systems, color palettes, graphic languages, layouts, iconography, and brand applications.
• Build identities that are flexible enough to work across digital, social, print, packaging, environmental, and campaign applications.
• Develop and maintain clear brand guidelines and design principles.
• Ensure consistency without allowing the work to become repetitive or overly templated.

Hands-On Design

• Be actively involved in the design process — this isnot a purely managerial role.
• Develop layouts, key visuals, identity explorations, campaign assets, presentations, and design concepts.
• Take projects from rough creative exploration through refinement and final execution.
• Demonstrate exceptional attention to typography, hierarchy, spacing, composition, and craft.
• Push work beyond the first solution and continuously refine until it reaches the required creative standard.

Campaign Art Direction

• Develop visual directions for integrated campaigns across digital, social, OOH, print, film, and physical environments.
• Work with creative and strategy teams to translate campaign ideas into compelling visual executions.
• Create mood boards, visual references, treatments, and art direction decks.
• Art direct photography, film, styling, set design, and other visual production where required.
• Ensure campaign assets feel connected as one creative system while adapting naturally to different channels.

Creative Development & Execution

• Translate creative directions into clear and executable design systems.
• Guide designers from concept through final artwork.
• Provide clear, constructive creative feedback and elevate work through multiple rounds of development.
• Collaborate with photographers, videographers, illustrators, animators, production houses, printers, fabricators, and other creative partners.
• Review final artwork, production files, edits, and applications before release.

Creative Quality Control

• Act as a key quality gatekeeper across the studio's visual output.
• Maintain a consistently high standard of design and craft across projects.
• Identify when work feels generic, unresolved, inconsistent, or visually weak and provide a clear direction for improvement.
• Ensure every piece of work remains aligned with the original creative idea and brand positioning.
• Balance creative ambition with timelines, budgets, production realities, and client requirements.

Team & Client Collaboration

• Work closely with Creative, Strategy, Content, Accounts, and Production teams.
• Mentor and guide designers while encouraging experimentation and stronger conceptual thinking.
• Present creative directions and design rationale internally and to clients.
• Confidently articulatewhya visual direction works rather than relying solely on aesthetics.
• Participate in pitches, creative reviews, workshops, and client presentations.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Art Direction, or a related creative field.
• 4+ years of relevant experiencein a branding agency, creative agency, design studio, or similar environment.
• A strong portfolio demonstratingbrand identity, graphic design, campaign art direction, and visual systems.
• Exceptional command of typography, layout, composition, color, and visual hierarchy.
• Strong conceptual thinking with the ability to turn an idea into a complete visual language.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularlyIllustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• Strong understanding of designing for digital, social, print, and physical applications.
• Experience directing designers and collaborating with multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced agency environment.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• High attention to detail and an uncompromising approach to visual quality.

Preferred Traits

• A designer first, with the ability to art direct.
• Strong personal taste and a clear visual point of view.
• Culturally aware and genuinely interested in design, fashion, hospitality, art, architecture, and contemporary visual culture.
• Conceptually strong but equally obsessed with execution.
• Comfortable moving between branding, campaigns, content, and physical experiences.
• Hands-on and willing to get into the design rather than only providing feedback.
• Curious, experimental, and constantly looking for references beyond obvious design trends.
• Able to challenge ideas constructively and defend creative decisions.
• Fast, adaptable, and calm under demanding timelines.
• Someone who understands thatgood art direction is not decoration — it is a system of decisions that gives an idea its visual identity.