Senior Art Director

Job title: Senior Art Director

About the Role The Senior Art Director will lead the immediate design team and oversee creative work with a strong focus on design and art. You will realize concepts and big ideas with a dedication to top-tier creative output, driving brand identities and visual systems across multiple touchpoints.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development of comprehensive brand identities from strategy through execution across digital, print, packaging, spatial, social, and brand communications.
• Develop logos, typography systems, color palettes, iconography, patterns, illustration styles, and broader brand assets.
• Translate brand positioning and strategy into distinctive visual territories; ensure consistency across branding and campaign execution.
• Build brand guidelines and scalable identity systems that work across multiple applications and markets.
• Develop moodboards, identity directions, and visual narratives; ensure presentation-ready materials.
• Concept and develop integrated campaigns from brief to final production (film, OOH, social, digital, experiential); create visual territories and campaign systems across formats.
• Present and defend creative work to internal leadership and clients.
• Mentor and direct junior Art Directors and designers; collaborate with Copywriters and Strategists to keep concept and execution aligned.
• Contribute to pitch and new business presentations under deadline pressure; push back when the work needs protecting.
• Use AI tools to rapidly generate visual directions, test territories, and build presentation-quality moodboards; write detailed, intentional AI prompts; integrate AI imagery into client-ready presentations with sound judgment.
• Stress-test campaign ideas with LLMs, sharpen narrative structures, and develop copy directions; proactively bring new AI capabilities into the team’s workflow.
• Deliver fast turnarounds for social and performance content; build full creative presentations and visual systems; localize work for English and Arabic markets; maintain quality under pressure across multiple briefs.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years as an Art Director in an agency setting.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking across campaign formats.
• Proven experience art directing brand films, photo shoots, and content productions.
• GCC / Saudi market understanding.
• Leads with ideas, follows through with execution.
• Curious about AI and actively integrates emerging tools into the creative process.
• Strong visual taste and storytelling instinct.
• Fast, reliable, and self-driven; comfortable in high-pressure environments.