Brand Designer (AR Speaker)

M&C Saatchi; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency in Dubai is seeking an experienced Brand Designer with over 6 years in brand design and a strong portfolio. The role includes creating and evolving visual identities and design systems while collaborating with strategies and account teams. Ideal candidates will have a flair for Arabic typography and will be well-versed in design tools like Adobe Creative Suite and Figma. This position offers a hybrid working environment with benefits including competitive salary, flexibility, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

23 days annual holiday

10 days of working from anywhere

Private healthcare plan

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in brand design with a strong portfolio.
• Ability to connect design decisions to strategy and communicate rationale clearly.
• Comfort working in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Create and evolve visual identities and design systems.
• Collaborate with account and client teams for design alignment.
• Support mentoring of junior designers.

Skills

Arabic typography

Design systems creation

Collaboration with teams

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Job description

BRAND DESIGNER (6+ YEARS)

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.

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 programme 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.