Head of Graphic & Motion Design, Brand Systems

Beanz; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Beanz is seeking an experienced Graphic & Motion Design Manager to lead our UAE and GCC-wide creative effort across digital, social, in-app, and campaigns. You’ll direct a small design team, raise standards, and build scalable design systems, ensuring fast, consistent delivery across markets in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman.

You will personally execute key graphics and motion projects while guiding briefs, templates, and production workflows.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience.
• Strong portfolio across static, motion, social and campaign work.
• Excellent eye for layout, typography, composition, colour and hierarchy.
• Strong understanding of social-first and short-form content.
• Able to balance hands-on execution with team management.
• Comfortable giving clear feedback and improving creative quality.
• Strong understanding of brand systems and visual consistency.
• Experience managing multiple projects, deadlines and markets.
• Comfortable in a fast‑paced, high-volume environment.
• Experience working with marketing, performance, social and content teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality, consistency and delivery of Beanz’s creative output.
• Lead, manage and develop a small junior design team.
• Review, guide and approve work before delivery.
• Personally execute key graphic and motion projects.
• Translate briefs into strong visual concepts and campaign systems.
• Build reusable templates across social, CRM, in-app and campaigns.
• Design and oversee static, motion, short-form video and animation.
• Lead creative execution across Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube Shorts and digital campaigns.
• Oversee ATL/BTL including OOH, posters, stickers, roll-ups, flags and in-store branding.
• Ensure correct preparation for print, digital and production.
• Maintain consistency across typography, colour, imagery, layout and motion.
• Adapt creative across markets, languages and formats.
• Work closely with social, content, performance, product and commercial teams.
• Brief and manage freelancers, photographers, videographers, agencies and suppliers.
• Support and art-direct shoots and content production.
• Manage workloads, priorities, timelines and creative libraries.
• Coach junior designers and improve their craft, speed and creative judgment.

Skills

Graphic design

Motion design

Team management

Brand systems

Creative leadership

Portfolio presentation

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Figma

CapCut

After Effects

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Job description

Beanz is seeking an experienced Graphic & Motion Design Manager to lead our UAE and GCC-wide creative effort across digital, social, in-app, and campaigns. You’ll direct a small design team, raise standards, and build scalable design systems, ensuring fast, consistent delivery across markets in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman.

You will personally execute key graphics and motion projects while guiding briefs, templates, and production workflows.