View Role : Visual & Creative Lead

True North Marketing; Dubai; On-site; AED 201,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

True North Marketing seeks a hands-on art director with a strong point of view to lead end-to-end visual work across brand, campaigns and product visuals.

You will own the visual standard, direct campaigns from concept through to the final grade, and build systems so others can produce on-brand work without you in the room. A portfolio showing depth in at least two areas is essential.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showing a clear point of view across brand and campaigns.
• Experience leading art direction and cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in at least two of the listed tools with a strong process.

Responsibilities

• Own the visual standard across brand, campaign and product work.
• Art direct campaigns from concept through to the final grade.
• Build systems that let others produce on-brand work without you in the room.
• Raise the bar on the studio's output and call out gaps clearly.
• Work directly with the founders on how the agency presents itself.

Skills

Art direction

Motion graphics

3D

Post-production

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Blender

Cinema 4D

Job description

Art direction, motion, 3D and post across everything we ship. Premiere Pro, After Effects and Blender or Cinema 4D, with real depth in at least two of them.

The whole visual output of the agency: brand systems, campaign creative, product visuals and the standard everything is measured against. You set the direction, you make the hardest pieces yourself, and you raise the level of the work around you. One to two years in, if the portfolio carries it.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The title describes what you own. We will ask what you made in those years and how you decided it, and a portfolio that already carries a point of view counts for more than the date on your first job.

You set the visual standard, make the hardest pieces yourself, and improve other people's work without redoing it. It is a craft lead. Nobody reports into it.

Premiere Pro, After Effects, and a 3D pipeline such as Blender or Cinema 4D, with real depth in at least two of them rather than a passing familiarity with all three.

A point of view, not a range of client styles. We would rather see five pieces that clearly came from the same head than twenty that did not.

The studio day to day, and the founders directly on how the agency presents itself. The visual standard is set with them, not handed down to you.

What We Are Looking For

• Command of the craft end to end: art direction, motion, 3D and post, with real depth in at least two.
• Premiere Pro, After Effects and a 3D pipeline such as Blender or Cinema 4D.
• A body of work with one recognisable point of view running through it.
• You can direct other people's work and improve it without redoing it.
• You argue for the better idea and you can tell when yours is not it.

Role & Responsibilities

• Own the visual standard across brand, campaign and product work.
• Art direct campaigns from concept through to the final grade.
• Build the systems that let others produce on-brand work without you in the room.
• Raise the bar on the studio's output, and say so plainly when something is not there yet.
• Work directly with the founders on how the agency presents itself.

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